Book Talk – Janaki Srinivasan at ASIS&T

Date: 02/03/2023

Janaki Srinivasan was invited by the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASSIS&T) to give a glimpse of her book “The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India” as part of their ‘Meet the author’ series.

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a professional association that bridges the gap between information science practice and research. The vision of the Association – a community of researchers and practitioners – is to be the preeminent global voice of information science and technology research and its implications for practice.

More on the talk here.

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.