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Sarah Zia - Not knowing as pedagogy: Ride-hailing drivers in Delhi
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by
Sarah Zia
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published
Dec 18, 2019
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last modified
May 19, 2020 06:35 AM
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Network Economies,
Publications,
Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Labour in India
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every interaction and movement. This essay by Sarah Zia is the second among a series of writings by researchers associated with the 'Mapping Digital Labour in India' project at the CIS, supported by the Azim Premji University, that were published on the Platypus blog of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC). The essay is edited by Noopur Raval, who co-led the project.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities and New Contexts of Digital Archival Practice in India
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 18, 2019
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last modified
Dec 18, 2019 10:32 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Research,
Archives,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
Puthiya Purayil Sneha attended and presented at a conference on 'The Arts, Knowledge, and Critique in the Digital Age in India: Addressing Challenges in the Digital Humanities' organised by Sahapedia and Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad on November 28-29, 2019.
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RAW
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Making Voices Heard: Privacy, Inclusivity, and Accessibility of Voice Interfaces in India
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by
Shweta Mohandas
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published
Dec 05, 2019
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last modified
Dec 18, 2019 12:10 PM
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filed under:
Voice User Interface,
Language,
Privacy,
Accessibility,
Research,
Voice Assisted Interface,
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Making Voices Heard
We believe that voice interfaces have the potential to democratise the use of internet by addressing barriers such as accessibility concerns, lack of abilities of reading and writing on digital text interfaces, and lack of options for people to interact with digital devices in their own languages. Through the Making Voice Heard Project supported by Mozilla Corporation, we will examine the current landscape of voice interfaces in India.
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RAW
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Simiran Lalvani - Workers’ Fictive Kinship Relations in Mumbai App-based Food Delivery
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by
Simiran Lalvani
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published
Dec 04, 2019
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last modified
May 19, 2020 06:25 AM
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Network Economies,
Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Labour in India
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every interaction and movement. This essay by Simiran Lalvani is the first among a series of writings by researchers associated with the 'Mapping Digital Labour in India' project at the CIS, supported by the Azim Premji University, that were published on the Platypus blog of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC). The essay is edited by Noopur Raval, who co-led the project concerned.
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RAW
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Domestic Work in the ‘Gig Economy’
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by
Aayush Rathi
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published
Nov 14, 2019
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last modified
Dec 06, 2019 04:52 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
RAW Events,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Event,
Digital Domestic Work
The CIS and Domestic Workers’ Rights Union (DWRU) are hosting a discussion on the ‘gig economy’ and domestic work on Saturday, November 16 at Student Christian Movement of India, Mission Road, Bangalore. This event is a part of a project supported by the Feminist Internet Research Network led by Association for Progressive Communication (APC) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
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RAW
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State of the Internet's Languages 2020: Announcing selected contributions!
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Nov 01, 2019
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last modified
Nov 01, 2019 06:12 PM
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filed under:
Language,
Digital Knowledge,
Research,
Featured,
State of the Internet's Languages,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work,
Decolonizing the Internet's Languages
In response to our call for contributions and reflections on ‘Decolonising the Internet’s Languages’ in August, we are delighted to announce that we received 50 submissions, in over 38 languages! We are so overwhelmed and grateful for the interest and support of our many communities around the world; it demonstrates how critical this effort is for all of us. From all these extraordinary offerings, we have selected nine that we will invite and support the contributors to expand further.
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RAW
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Comments to the United Nations Human Rights Commission Report on Gender and Privacy
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Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon and Pallavi Bedi
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published
Oct 24, 2019
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last modified
Dec 30, 2019 05:40 PM
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filed under:
Privacy,
Gender,
Internet Governance,
Research,
Gender, Welfare, and Privacy,
Researchers at Work
This submission to UNHRC presents a response by researchers at the CIS to ‘gender issues arising in the digital era and their impacts on women, men and individuals of diverse sexual orientations gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics’. It was prepared by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, and Pallavi Bedi in response to a report of consultation by a thematic taskforce established by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy on ‘Privacy and Personality’ (hereafter, HRC Gender Report).
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages 2019 - From Conversations to Actions
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Oct 21, 2019
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last modified
Nov 01, 2019 05:53 PM
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filed under:
Language,
Decolonizing the Internet's Languages,
Research,
Digital Knowledge,
Researchers at Work
Whose Knowledge? is organising the Decolonizing the Internet's Languages 2019 gathering in London on October 23-24 — with a specific focus on building an agenda for action to decolonize the internet’s languages. Puthiya Purayil Sneha is participating in this meeting with scholars, linguists, archivists, technologists and community activists, to share the initial findings towards the State of the Internet’s Language Report (to be published in 2020) being developed by Whose Knowledge?, Oxford Internet Institute, and the CIS.
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RAW
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The Mother and Child Tracking System - understanding data trail in the Indian healthcare systems
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by
Ambika Tandon
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published
Oct 18, 2019
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last modified
Dec 30, 2019 05:18 PM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Data Systems,
Privacy,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Governance,
Research,
BD4D,
Healthcare,
Big Data for Development
Reproductive health programmes in India have been digitising extensive data about pregnant women for over a decade, as part of multiple health information systems. These can be seen as precursors to current conceptions of big data systems within health informatics. In this article, published by Privacy International, Ambika Tandon presents some findings from a recently concluded case study of the MCTS as an example of public data-driven initiatives in reproductive health in India.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Big Data and Reproductive Health in India: A Case Study of the Mother and Child Tracking System
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by
Ambika Tandon
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published
Oct 17, 2019
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last modified
Dec 06, 2019 04:57 AM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Data Systems,
Researchers at Work,
Reproductive and Child Health,
Research,
Featured,
Publications,
BD4D,
Healthcare,
Big Data for Development
In this case study undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development (BD4D) network, Ambika Tandon evaluates the Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) as data-driven initiative in reproductive health at the national level in India. The study also assesses the potential of MCTS to contribute towards the big data landscape on reproductive health in the country, as the Indian state’s imagination of health informatics moves towards big data.
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RAW
