Guest talk by Dr. Silvia Masiero on ‘Imagining the State through Digital Technologies: A Case of Computerization in the Indian Public Distribution System’

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.