Developing assets and impact around non-technical layers
Aapti and Omidyar Network India have collaborated to build an understanding on the non-technical layers of DPI/Gs
This research tries to understand the relationship between youth civic engagement and the potential of technology to impact change and enable participatory governance by studying the reap-benefit model.
Exploring impact of AI deployment by businesses in India on human rights of consumers in sectors of healthcare and financial services, and the labour force in sectors of retail and gig economy.
We intend to broaden the horizon, informing the economic and social value of encryption, consequently, emphasizing the need to recouple gains from encryption to policy.
This study engages with the notion of agency in three significant ways- understanding its meaning, locating its loss, and thinking towards its restoration.
The study explores offline intermediaries and the new rising digital intermediaries and hopes to function as a flagbearer towards future research on this.
We mapped the breakdowns in thinking about agency and surfaced design principles for its restoration.
The Last Mile Access research was a 9-month empirical, mixed methods study conducted by Aapti Institute in partnership with Omidyar Network India and eGovernments Foundation.
We explored the state of the labelling or annotation industry with its varying business models and prevailing practices.
We attempted to articulate a set of principles that could guide us in governing societal platforms. In doing so, we attempt to move towards calibration of values.
The report brings forth the contestations and particularities underlying these questions by understanding the platform economy through the perspective of workers.
A simple explanation on breakdown of agency due to lack of access suggesting capacity of an individual to act independently and to make free choices
Our paper aims to explore the intersection of ideas of work from home with gender realities and their implications for imagining the future of work from home.
The key takeaways from the session were the importance of establishing partnerships, and community based participation in research design to ensure holistic ethical standards.
We attempt to articulate a set of principles that could guide us in governing societal platforms. In doing so, we attempt to move towards calibration of values, rather than blandly state categories.
Aapti Institute responded to the whitepaper on National Open Digital Ecosystem and highlighted the relevance of community architectures in accountability and inclusivity for transparent government platforms.
Aapti Institute responded to Draft Municipal Governance Standards and highlighted the significance of leveraging offline architecture within the realm of municipal grievance redressal.
Aapti and Omidyar Network India have collaborated to build an understanding on the non-technical layers of DPI/Gs
Research highlighted gaps with the vaccine distribution process, technical glitches, structural realities, like gender and caste, compounding questions of access
We look at the need to invest in offline architectures given the potential it holds for a wide range of public and private services.
Response to state the advent of technologies can narrow the urban-rural productivity gap by enabling younger generations.
How to ensure protection of information from bad actors but empowers these entities to channel propaganda and conduct information warfare.
Digital technologies are creating an impact by collectivising and mobilising people in the physical space.
The Democrat’s successful campaign in Georgia offers significant lessons for Indian progressives.
There is a strong case to attribute a more robust responsibility to platform companies and the State.
A growing body of research is showing the importance of intermediaries in managing a whole range of questions with respect to technology in society.
Restrictions on social media platforms may seriously undermine social, political, and economic value, and above all, basic democratic rights.
Technology-enabled access to the state can be one of many rallying points around which groups of citizens come together to assert democratic rights.
As the state becomes more digital, more active involvement in political action is imperative. The shift of the state to digital spaces means reduced opportunity for resistance and claim-making.
It is vital to examine the design and deployment of technological governance mechanisms through the lens of inclusion.
Aapti is a public strategic research institution that generates policy-relevant, actionable, and accessible knowledge from the frontiers of tech and society, about our networked lives, to support the creation of a fair, free, and equitable society.
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