Globally, urbanization, urban development and management debates have been influenced by the “smart city” idea – an idea that has emerged fashionable both in policy and practice. Its main focus appears to be on the role of Information and commu

#3.07 Ordinary Ethics of AI and Storytelling

May 30th, 2022 49m 8s

When it comes to talking about AI ethics, we often hear terms such as bias, fairness, accountability, transparency, human-centered explainable AI, and responsible AI. While they cover major concerns around an AI/data-driven world from technolog

#3.06 A Free, Fair and Equitable Digital Society

May 12th, 2022 38m 43s

Everything we do in our everyday lives - from interpersonal relations to work, from travel to entertainment- are almost ubiquitously mediated through digital technologies. So much so that we can hardly prise apart the digital from the social. W

#3.05 Navigating a Professional Future in Digital Society

Apr 24th, 2022 28m 5s

Digital society has grown to be an increasingly significant field of study as we have come to live in an increasingly digital world. In that case, questions around navigating through our everyday digital lives as contributors and change-makers

#3.04 Political Economies of Transnational Labour

Mar 28th, 2022 41m 3s

Defining identities linked to labour relations has been a problem that has perplexed scholars. To accommodate technological nuances into defining these identities has proved an even more puzzling endeavour. But, our guest today has delved deep

#3.03 Health & Gender Equity: Role of Big Data

Mar 5th, 2022 20m 42s

The use of big data in the health industry to contribute to advancing the field is not a new practice. But it is one that has been constantly evolving, especially to support evidence-based policy and practice for population-level impact, This a

#3.02 Participatory Media Platforms

Feb 19th, 2022 46m 14s

Using technology for development has been part of the development discourse for quite some time now. But, what goes into ensuring that these technological solutions rightly impact and benefit those it is meant for? Our guest today is no strange

#3.01 AI Systems and Societies

Feb 5th, 2022 39m 58s

AI has garnered attention the world over. Now, there are both exaggerated claims - such as what it could mean for the future of the human workforce and aspirational use cases of AI. The field of AI arose in its early stages as an attempt to mim

#14 Stranded Workers Action Network

Dec 20th, 2021 38m 57s

The Stranded Workers Action Network or SWAN is an initiative that sprung in response to the acute crisis faced by migrant workers in the wake of the nationwide lockdown in India, announced in March 2020. SWAN is a volunteer-driven effort that h

#13 COVID-19 War Stories: Rethinking public health strategies

Nov 15th, 2021 22m 35s

Following the two devastating waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, for many of us in India and indeed in several regions across the world, haunting images of patients waiting outside hospitals and family members struggling to find a bed for their lo

#12 Tracing the cost of transaction failures

Oct 2nd, 2021 38m 58s

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the banking world witnessed a huge surge in transactions, one such payment infrastructure was AePS in India. Many providers and government DBT schemes resorted to AePS which led to a huge demand for cash withdrawal

#11 COVID-19 from the Margins

Sep 4th, 2021 26m 21s

The current era of our datafied society is still grappling with the effects of its first pandemic. In a race to represent it, our efforts to manage and report the crisis seem to be a numbers game for the most part. This data-driven approach by

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Trailer: Season 2

Sep 3rd, 2021 1m 8s

After a short break, we are back with season 2 of the podcast! This season will be a mini-series of 5 episodes focused on Covid-19 where we bring to you engaging critical discussions on the many ways digital technologies have shaped our lives d

#10 Learning to think critically

Jul 3rd, 2021 40m 31s

IIIT Bangalore's flexible and holistic curriculum ensures engineering students of the integrated MTech program take up courses from the fields of economics, sociology, web sciences, HCI and so on. This enables students with critical thinking sk

#9 Designing ICT Solutions for Public Healthcare

Jun 12th, 2021 31m 20s

Over the past year, digital technologies were rapidly designed and developed or adapted for various healthcare needs. This could be a contact tracing system, or vaccination portals, online consulting, and so on. What does it take to build such

#8 The Web as we know it

May 29th, 2021 22m 25s

As the world wide web evolved over the years from a few pages to search engines, e-commerce sites, wikis, and social media platforms, how has it impacted us, humans? We talk about this in detail with Prof. Srinath Srinivasa, who offers an inter

#7 Aadhaar & Food Security through a HCI lens

May 14th, 2021 45m 37s

When millions of Indians access their food entitlements each month through the Public Distribution System - the largest food distribution network in the world, their access is mediated through a biometrics-based authentication system. How do be

#6 Design: Beyond the User Interface

May 1st, 2021 43m 21s

In this episode of Technology Together, we turn to design researcher and visiting faculty member at IIIT Bangalore, Dr. Linus Kendall, who is an expert in participatory approaches to design. We explore the lesser-known side of Digital Design, o

#5 Empowering Digital Social Innovation

Apr 17th, 2021 46m 13s

In the fifth episode of Technology Together, we shift our attention from research to innovation and discuss the need for digital social innovation. We are joined by the former CEO of IIITB Innovation Center, Prof. Ramesh Sundararaman who focuse

#4 Towards Fair Work

Mar 27th, 2021 37m 55s

On this episode of ‘Technology, Together’ we have with us 2 guests, Dr. Balaji Parthasarathy and Pradyumna Taduri, who have worked extensively on deconstructing the platform economy in general and the state of platform labour within the Indian

#3 A Pedagogy for Digital Privacy

Mar 13th, 2021 41m 53s

Joining us on this episode are Profs. T.K. Srikanth, Janaki Srinivasan and V Sridhar. Prof. TK Srikanth is a computer scientist who is actively involved in multiple collaborative research projects in healthcare as the co-convenor of the E-Healt

#2 Time, Agency, and Gendered Work

Feb 27th, 2021 22m 53s

In this episode, Oindrila Matilal, a PhD scholar in the IT and Society domain at IIIT Bangalore, walks us through the experiences of women returning to work in the software services sector after a maternity break and how policies like flexible

#1 Envisioning Inclusive STEM Education

Feb 13th, 2021 29m 37s

In the first episode, we speak to Vidhya and Prof. Amit Prakash about the challenges faced by visually impaired students in STEM education and their efforts to address those challenges. They share insights from their journey of designing, devel

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Trailer: Technology, Together.

Feb 7th, 2021 1m 15s

IIIT Bangalore has been host to research domains, programmes and centers that bring together researchers from engineering, public policy, political science, sociology, economics and many others. To celebrate this diverse research culture, we br

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