Book Talk by Janaki Srinivasan at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York

Date: 17/10/2022

About the talk: Prof. Janaki Srinivasan was invited to give a glimpse into her book “”The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India” at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Prof. Srinivasan spoke of the ways in which the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender – by examining three cases in India.

More on the talk here: https://sai.columbia.edu/events/talk-janaki-srinivasan-iiitb

CITAPP at IIIT Bangalore is an interdisciplinary think-tank set-up to focus on the policy challenges and the organizational demands made by technological innovation. Of particular interest to the Centre is how technological advances, along with institutional changes that harness the legitimacy and the powers of bureaucracies and market, address the needs of underserved communities.