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#SelfiesFromTheField session held at IRC17

Date: 3-3-2017

Description: Kavitha, Onkar, and Oindrila organised a session #SelfiesFromTheField on 3rd March at the Internet Researchers Conference.The underlying theme of the session was the challenges researchers face in studying IMIs, with the conflation of the online and the offline.The key provocations of the session addressed issues of data, politics, and the doing of IMI related research.

You can find the crowdsourced notes of this session through the Etherpad .

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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.