Dear Community, This talk might be of interest to Open Data enthusiasts especially because it will touch upon interesting attempts to re-represent government data to empower grassroots organizations and communities.
Thanks, Rajesh On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 6:59:21 PM UTC+5:30, Rajesh D Hanbal wrote: > > > > Dear Researchers/Activists, > > You are welcome to attend a talk on titled "*Technocracy as the veil for > lack of political will" *by Rajendran Narayanan at IIITB tomorrow at 4 > PM. More details below. > > Thanks, > Rajesh > > > > > > > *The Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP)* > > *International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB)* > > > > invites you to a talk titled > > > > *Technocracy as the veil for lack of political will: In the context of > NREGA* > > by > > > > * Rajendran Narayanan* > > *Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University* > > > > *4:00 pm - 5:30 pm on 17th April 2019 (Wednesday)* > > Venue:* Room #310, IIITB campus* > > *26/C, Electronic City, Hosur Road, Bangalore* > > > * About the talk:* > > The Right to Information (RTI) has been a landmark law to increase > transparency and accountability of the government. In this regard, Social > Audits have been a powerful mechanism of monitoring and participation for > the marginalised sections to know their rights and entitlements and act > based on that knowledge. Social audits entail culling out and presenting > relevant information in a manner that is most useful to people > participating in programmes such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee > Act (NREGA). The information can then be used to conduct public hearings > leading to increased democratic engagement and participation. Rajendran is > a founder member of a collective of researchers and activists called LibTech > India <http://libtech.in/>. LibTech works with an array of civil society > organisations across several states in designing and developing "bottom-up" > Janata Information Systems (JIS). Such information can then be used for > continuous monitoring of government programmes and social audits. LibTech > India has also been active in various national campaigns as the National > Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI), the Right to Food > Campaign, NREGA Sangharsh Morcha and the People’s Action for Employment > Guarantee. > > > > *Speaker Bio**:* Rajendran is an Assistant Professor in the School of > Liberal Studies, Azim Premji University, Bangalore. After completing his > Ph.D. in statistics from Cornell University, he has held teaching and > research positions at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Cornell > University, Ithaca and Ashoka University, Sonepat. In his doctoral work, he > explored theoretical questions pertaining to eigenvalues of random matrices > and shrinkage estimation in constrained regression problems. He has since > gradually migrated to the real world and engages in ‘Research for Action’ > in questions pertaining to transparency, accountability, and human rights. > > To know more about CITAPP visit *http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/ > <http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/>* and to explore M.Sc. (Digital Society) > programme visit > *http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/academic-programmes/m-sc-digital-society/ > <http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/academic-programmes/m-sc-digital-society/>* > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
