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What are the implications of what the World Economic Forum has labelled the 'fourth industrial revolution'?
Technologies like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are being hailed as both disruptive and the basis for new forms of global industry, work, and social organisation.
How will these developments impact the future of work and gendered employment opportunities in India’s tech sector?
This Question Marks Seminar welcomes Dr Bidisha Chaudhuri and Dr Janaki Srinivasan from IIIT-B to discuss how India's tech sector is transforming in response to disruptive technologies and global political developments.
Dr Bidisha Chaudhuri is a researcher focusing on ICT for development and policy reform with an emphasis on gender and e-governance in South Asia. She works in India and the Global South to analyse the interlocking of politics, technology and culture in policy approaches to governance. Dr Chaudhuri is currently examining the creation of new regimes of citizenship through India’s digital Universal ID scheme.
Dr Janaki Srinivasan researches the political economy of information-based development. By examining diverse information cultures and the role of power relations in shaping them, her goal is to inform technology and policy design that is politically aware and directly speaks to the inequities and heterogeneous information practices within populations. Dr Srinivasan studies how ideologically diverse entities in India deploy information and technology towards achieving their varied visions of development.
Dr Fabio Mattioli is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Melbourne.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Prof. Haripriya Rangan, Director of Research and Academic Programmes at the Aii, and Dr Jonathan Balls, a New Generation Network scholar at the Aii who is affiliated with the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne.
What are the implications of what the World Economic Forum has labelled the 'fourth industrial revolution'?
Technologies like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are being hailed as both disruptive and the basis for new forms of global industry, work, and social organisation.
How will these developments impact the future of work and gendered employment opportunities in India’s tech sector?
This Question Marks Seminar welcomes Dr Bidisha Chaudhuri and Dr Janaki Srinivasan from IIIT-B to discuss how India's tech sector is transforming in response to disruptive technologies and global political developments.
Dr Bidisha Chaudhuri is a researcher focusing on ICT for development and policy reform with an emphasis on gender and e-governance in South Asia. She works in India and the Global South to analyse the interlocking of politics, technology and culture in policy approaches to governance. Dr Chaudhuri is currently examining the creation of new regimes of citizenship through India’s digital Universal ID scheme.
Dr Janaki Srinivasan researches the political economy of information-based development. By examining diverse information cultures and the role of power relations in shaping them, her goal is to inform technology and policy design that is politically aware and directly speaks to the inequities and heterogeneous information practices within populations. Dr Srinivasan studies how ideologically diverse entities in India deploy information and technology towards achieving their varied visions of development.
Dr Fabio Mattioli is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Melbourne.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Prof. Haripriya Rangan, Director of Research and Academic Programmes at the Aii, and Dr Jonathan Balls, a New Generation Network scholar at the Aii who is affiliated with the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne.
