Biometric processes in Food Security

2017

PIs: Preeti Mudliar

Funding agency: IIITB Faculty Start up Grant

Publications:

  • Preeti Mudliar. Biographies of Biometric Devices: The POS Machine at Work in India’s PDS. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’2021) May 8 – 13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. [PDF]
  • Preeti Mudliar. Whither Humane-Computer Interaction? Adult and Child Value Conflicts in the Biometric Fingerprinting for Food. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’2020) April 25-30, 2020, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA. [PDF]
  • Preeti Mudliar. Broken Data: Repairs in the Production of Biometric Bodies. In Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India. (Ed. Sandeep Mertia). Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. [PDF}
  • Breakdowns and Repairs in Aadhaar-linked Public Distribution Systems–Learnings from Rajasthan. Presented at the 2018 International Tech4Dev Conference, UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development: Voices of the Global South, Lausanne, Switzerland. 27-29 June.
  • Broken Data. Paper presented at ‘Lives of Data’. Workshop organized by Sarai-CSDS, New Delhi, (January 5-7, 2017). Audio recordings of the presentations are available here.
  • Invited talk at the BIT-ACT monthly seminar series hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy, on ‘Biometric Designs for Increasing Inclusion and Decreasing Corruption: Lessons from India’s Food Security System’. Details here.
  • Preeti Mudliar. 2020. ‘In Mangal’s New World.’ In 2040 – Utopias for a Digital Society. Publisher: Alexander Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. (HIIG)  The digital book is available for reading here.
  • A recording of the public Q&A session on the story with HIIG’s Bronwen Deacon is available for viewing on YouTube here and on Facebook 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.