Centre for Internet and Society

Design!PubliC

praskrishna — 2012-05-30T06:32:35Z

This is the event report of the third Design!PubliC organised in New Delhi in April 2012.

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Design!Public

praskrishna — 2014-04-08T11:14:52Z

Centre for Knowledge Societies is organizing this event in partnership with Grameen Foundation India, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNDP, et.al. Sunil Abraham is a speaker at this event to be held in New Delhi on March 14, 2014.

Design Public is a high-level conversation among a select group of thinkers, decision-makers and opinion-leaders who seek to transform India into an innovation society. It brings together influential actors from all sectors of society to deliberate the best ways in which innovation can serve the public interest. The larger goal of the Conclave is to serve as an enabling platform for building the necessary partnerships and consortia that will bring this agenda to practical realization.

Schedule

8.30	Registration and Coffee Background Track: Hamsa Dhwani
9.00	Breakfast Dialogue: Three Perspectives to Citizen-Centricity by Shazia Ilmi Somnath Bharti Namrata Mehta Aditya Dev Sood and Sunil Abraham Three distinct approaches to Governance Innovation are seen in India today: citizen activism, the open data and open governance agenda, and the integration of design and innovation into government processes. Representatives from each of these spaces begin the day with an open and friendly public dialogue.
10.20	Word of Welcome
10.30	Session One: The Elements of Governance Innovation by Sumandro Chattapadhyay Raman Jit Singh Chima Arndt Husar Esko Kilpi Chakshu Roy Divya Datta Namrata Mehta How are people thinking about Governance Innovation around the world in terms of process, data and systems change? What is the success of various Lab models and how do they exactly work? What is the relevance of these approaches to the Indian scenario?
12.00	Session Two: Social Innovation through Partnership with Private Sector by Nehal Sanghavi Daniel Radcliffe Louise Pulford Chandni Ohri Ada Wong Aditya Dev Sood How can we promote social innovation through new partnerships between the social and private sectors? How can we take advantage of the new Companies Act to develop new alliances and partnerships across sectors that will actually drive innovation? How does the concept of social innovation fit into these needs?
01.00	Networking Lunch Talk and connect with people outside your comfort zone!
02.00	Convene for Working Group Breakouts
02.30	Working Group One: Design a Social Innovation Exchange for India by Mike Knowles Nehal Sanghavi Daniel Radcliffe Louise Pulford Chandni Ohri Abhimanyu Nowhar Ada Wong Aditya Dev Sood The Social Innovation Exchange is a global organization with several regional hubs, such as SIX Asian in Hong Kong. What if there were to be a SIX India? What would be its mandate? What activities and goals should it pursue?
02.30	Working Group Two: Building an Action Plan for a Civic Innovation Lab The assembled group of thought leaders at this Design Public Conclave have the potential to reorganize as a new non-partisan community dedicated to achieving governance innovation. For this to be possible, however, they must first breakout into articulating challenges and goals in each of the three areas identified below.
03.30	WGII Breakout Two Alpha: A New Agenda for Citizen-centric Innovation by Sumandro Chattapadhyay Soaib Grewal Ambrish Arora Usha Alexander Ishan Khosla MP Ranjan Sunil Abraham How can design and innovation methods benefit the citizenry? How can mobile networks and different kinds of data be used to create better urban experiences? How can India’s new urban activism better align with design and data approaches?
03.30	WGII Breakout Two Beta: Institutionalizing a Civic Innovation Network by Lysander Menezes Suhas Mhaskar Rajesh Khati Shweta Banerjee Arndt Husar Jatin Modi Esko Kilpi Rajesh Sawhney Chakshu Roy How do we bring together the natural allies of Civic Innovation into a larger network? Which government agencies, startups, and social development organizations need to work together towards this goal? How could Civic Innovation be operationalized? What institutions, individuals and networks might support Civic Innovation?
04.30	Coffee Jam with Music
05.00	Public Presentations from Each Breakout by Prashant Bhushan Balasubramanian Munuswamy Harsh Shrivastava Anant Shah MP Ranjan Sukumar Ranganthan Thought leaders and decision makers critique and review public presentations made by each of the breakout sessions. An open dialogue ensues.
05.30	Dialogue: Framing Conclusions and Charting Next Steps An open dialogue to articulate possible next steps, possible coalitions, alliances, research programs and funding prospects for these areas of work.
07.00	Cocktails, Dancing and Dinner After a heavy day at the office, you deserve to twist that spine.

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Design! Public

praskrishna — 2011-08-23T02:44:24Z

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Design Public Event

praskrishna — 2012-01-16T07:10:29Z

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Design Public Detail

praskrishna — 2011-02-24T07:20:44Z

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Design Public

praskrishna — 2011-02-24T06:47:50Z

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Design Public

praskrishna — 2011-02-24T06:45:18Z

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Denisse

praskrishna — 2013-09-19T05:22:06Z

Denisse

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Denisse

praskrishna — 2013-09-19T05:19:01Z

Denisse

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Demonetisation: Cost Vs Benefit

praskrishna — 2017-01-17T16:04:16Z

Sunil Abraham took part in a discussion on Demonetisation in NDTV's Big Fight programme aired on December 24, 2016.

Prime Minister's big post-demonetisation deadline of 50 days is coming to a close. Does this mean that people's ordeal with the currency ban will also come to an end? Will the government continue to have people's support and patience through its big bang reforms if they fail to achieve their original aim of retrieving black money? We ask, what lies ahead for India? How long will it take for India to become a cashless economy? What are the pitfalls? With a high bank dormancy rate of 43%, most Indians still prefer to make transactions through cash. Even if we are able to make that journey to becoming a cashless economy by 2020, does the government have the infrastructure to make online payments safe?

Sunil Abraham said that the trouble with the design of the Aadhaar project is that it makes citizens transparent to the state and does not make state transparent to the citizen. With every generation of corruption busting technology we see new ways of corruption being introduced into our society. For more watch the video

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Democracy and the Internet in 2017

praskrishna — 2017-03-28T15:19:14Z

Vidushi Marda gave a talk at St. Joseph's College of Commerce in Bengaluru on January 25, 2017. Vidushi spoke about democracy and the internet. The 50 minute talk was followed by 20 minutes of questions/comments.

Undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines such as social science, engineering, business, etc. attended the lecture. The talk broadly focused on:

The relationship between democracy and the internet. Why/how are they are closely related.
The internet's role in changing information exchange and communication. I drew on examples like the Arab Spring/Elections/Political change.
The growing usage of internet platforms for elections and also governance. Problematising the fact that these few private platforms seem to monopolise the internet, are only restricted to a certain elite audience, cannot be conflated with actual governance etc.
Fake News.
Algorithmic curation and filter bubbles.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/democracy-and-the-internet-in-2017

Demand-Supply in Electronics Industry

praskrishna — 2013-09-03T07:23:32Z

Demand-Supply in Electronics Industry

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Delicensed Spectrum

praskrishna — 2013-05-22T12:16:11Z

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Delicensed Spectrum

praskrishna — 2013-06-03T10:11:10Z

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Delicensed Spectrum

praskrishna — 2013-09-26T10:40:52Z

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