Amit Prakash

Education : FPM (IIM Bangalore)

Amit Prakash is an Associate Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore. He has been involved in setting up the Institute’s Centre for IT and Public Policy (CITAPP), Centre for Accessibility in the Global South (CAGS) and E-Health Research Centre (EHRC). His interests lie in Information Systems and Public Policy, particularly in development sectors such as public health & nutrition, education & skill development, and food & livelihood security. The focus of his research and consulting efforts has been equity and inclusion in matters related to technology designs and policy choices.

Prior to joining academia, Amit worked for over 15 years at Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), on advisory assignments involving IT in Governance policies and digital technology designs. He has been part of national and regional committees and working groups tasked with formulating digital governance and development policies and has anchored design of large national and state level award winning e-Governance projects.

Amit serves as a resource person for the United Nations Asia-Pacific Centre for ICT and Development (UN-APCICT) and has conducted capacity enhancement sessions for senior government executives and political representatives in countries of South and South-East Asia. He is a Co-Founder of Vision Empower (http://www.visionempowertrust.org/), a not-for-profit trust working on accessible education for visually impaired, and serves as an Independent Director on the Board of itihaasa Research and Digital.

Amit has a doctoral degree in Information Systems from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore and a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.