CITAPP Seminar Series talks will now take place on the third Thursday of each month between 2.00 and 3.30 pm. Here is a glimpse of past editions of the series.
The CITAPP Seminar Series, 2021-22 Edition
- April 21, 2021: Public Health by Dr Manju Rani, WHO. Background note here
- August 18, 2021: COVID-19 War Stories by Nachiket Mor, IIITB and Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health. Background note here
- September 15, 2021: Shared Borders – Behavioral Sciences and AI by Pavan Mamidi, Ashoka University
- October 20, 2021: A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy by Tommaso Giommoni, ETH Zurich. Paper available here.
- November 17, 2021: Twitter data mining to gather insights on gender during the pandemic by Nabamallika Dehingia, UC San Diego. Briefs discussed available here, here and here.
- December 15, 2021: Online Health Misinformation by Santosh Vijaykumar, Northumbria University.
- January 19, 2022: Big Data and Judicial Decision Making by Aditi Bhowmick, Development Data Lab. Paper available here.
- February 16, 2022:AI/ML for Dairy: Cattle identity and cattle health by Balaji Lakshmanan, CTO, Dvara E-Dairy. Background papers on the impact of dairy work, muzzle-based identity, and cattle health here, here, here, and here.
- March 23, 2022: Facial Recognition and police bias in India by Shivangi Narayan. Background papers attached and newspaper articles here, here and here.
The CITAPP Seminar Series, 2022-23 Edition:
- August 24, 2022: Learning to speak to an elephant and other stories of decentralised digital futures by Babitha George and Romit Raj, Quicksand. More on the project here.
- September 21, 2022: Building a technology platform that connects communities by Smita and Ram, Rang De
- October 19, 2022: Product Innovation: Determining value at the cross-section of data and behaviour by Deepa Bachu and Alisha Raghavan, Pensar Design. Related readings here and here.
- November 16, 2022: Technology based on the Science of Learning can Revolutionise Education for All by Sridhar Rajagopalan, Educational Initiatives. Recommended readings: extracts The Economist here and here; Mindspark Harvard Business School case study here.
- January 18, 2023: Transforming Mindsets, Shaping Futures – The Mission of Udhyam Learning Foundation and the Power of Mindset Development by Mekin Maheshwari, Udhyam Learning Foundation.
- February 22, 2023: Technology Platforms and Indian Health Systems by Nachiket Mor, The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health and CITAPP. Based on his co-authored Lancet paper here.
- April 5, 2023: Designing a Neobank for Urban Bharat by Pramod Ghorpade, Dvara Money
- April 12, 2023: What is the role of play + design to solve for Climate Change together? Play City, The Children’s Scrappy News Service TV, online, offline & outside by Lisa Heydlauff, Founder, Going to School
The CITAPP Seminar Series, 2023-24 Edition:
- August 16, 2023: Organising Indian Health Systems for UHC using Digital Public Goods by Nachiket Mor
- September 20, 2023: Digital platforms as club goods: The promise of flexible work opportunities and the experience of precarity by Balaji Parthasarathy, IIITB
- October 18, 2023: Same size does not fit all: The talent mix by Rituparna Chakraborty, Teamlease
- November 15, 2023: A Secret Sauce to Inclusive Digitisation at Scale? A Review of the Digital Public Infrastructure Approach by Kamya Chandra, Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure
- January 17, 2024: Digital Public Infrastructure in Agriculture by Samir Shah, Dvara Holdings
- February 21, 2024: Governance of Digital Public Infrastructures: Why and how by Sarayu Natarajan, Aapti Institute
- Mar 20, 2024: The best digital tools are those that help improve health outcomes. Rest are pieces of Software by Rahul Mullick, Senior Vice President – Digital, Resolve to Save Lives
- April 17, 2024: Solving Daily Commute by Mohit Dubey and Vinayak Bhavnani, co-Founders, Chalo
The CITAPP Seminar Series, 2025-26 Edition:
- August 21, 2025: Untouchable Cellphones? Old Caste Exclusions and New Digital Divides in Peri-Urban Bangalore by Anant Kamath