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First Book Reviews out with Times Higher Ed & E&T magazine
Am thrilled to read these positive reviews of my new book "The Next Billion Users: Digital Life beyond the West" with Harvard University Press. It is particularly wonderful to see one of the reviews...
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New paper on Data-Based Governance out in First Monday
Hallam Stevens from Nanjang Technological University and I co-edited a Special Issue in First Monday, one of the first Open Access journals on the internet. The theme of this issue is "Data-driven...
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Book launch at Athenaeum bookstore in Amsterdam
Seems like these days I am having a lot of "first" moments. My first studio talk with BBC, which will be broadcast in the next few weeks and then my first talk at a book store. Had my book launch at...
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Keynote at the BRESTOLON symposium network
Was nice to head back to ZEMKI Bremen where I did my fellowship last year to give a keynote talk on The Next Billion Users book with Harvard Press. This was for the BRESTOLON network which is an...
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Talk at the iconic Volksbühne theatre on AI for the common good
On May 6th, I will be heading to Berlin to help launch the School of Disobedience initiative and fittingly it will be at Berlin's most iconic theatre - Volksbühne, home to art and activism in Germany...
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Speaker on Datafication and healthcare at the Royal Tropical Institute
Looks like May is blowing up on me. Getting intense but fascinating to be moving among very diverse circles from tech activists in Berlin to mobile healthcare ministries and healthcare donors. My book...
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6 marathon presentations at the ICA-Washington
It was one of my busiest times I have had at the International Communication Association, the largest annual gathering of communication and media scholars. This year it was held in Washington DC. I...
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Keynote for the Digital Inclusion Policy Conference in London
What a wonderful and diverse audience for this keynote for the Digital Inclusion Policy conference held in London by the University of Liverpool. It emerged from some very critical and timely questions...
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The Economist coverage of my Next Billion Users book
I have been a loyal subscriber of The Economist for more than a decade. I first got introduced to it during my Masters program in International Policy at Harvard University where everyone pretty much...
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Motivational Speaker for Gemeente Amsterdam Diversity Program
I cannot emphasize enough how much I love Amsterdam. It really feels like home for me and that's saying a lot given that I have moved so much since I was a teenager. From India to the United States...
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Talking to Tech: Keynote at EMERCE Next in Amsterdam
Wonderful experience speaking as one of the few academics in a room full of young tech entrepreneurs at the EMERCE Next event in Amsterdam. I gave a talk based on my new book 'The Next Billion Users'...
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Brainstorming at the AI & Democracy CIFAR Workshop at Microsoft Research...
I was invited to participate in the 'AI Powered Information Ecosystems & Democracy' workshop held at the Microsoft Research Lab in Montreal and sponsored by CIFAR. The premise of this workshop was...
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My East Asia book tour
The last two weeks have been thrilling! With my book being translated into Chinese, I got on the road to speak about the "The Next Billion Users" with academics, development and tech practitioners,...
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Giving a keynote alongside the legendary Jimmy Wales
Click on the highlights of the Techfestival in Copenhagen on 7-9 September and you will see me positioned next to Jimmy Wales, the legendary founder of Wikipedia. This is possibly one of the biggest...
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Keynote and Fireside chat on AI4Good at NEXT event Hamburg
The NEXT 19 at Hamburg - what an event! Beautifully curated with the right mix of humor, creativity, seriousness and playfulness - the kind of thoughtful event required for the public to engage with...
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Rockefeller Foundation Workshop on Responsible AI Futures
The Rockefeller Foundation has committed itself to shape the design and impact of Artificial Intelligence on Society with a series of workshops and vision documents. The first in its series -...
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Keynote at Digital Fortress Europe in Brussels
I delivered a keynote on 'Amplified activism from afar" in addressing border-making through social media and how diasporas can be powerful forces to contend with in the shaping of national agendas,...
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Re-imagining Spotify for the Next Billion Users
It was fantastic to give a talk at Spotify in Stockholm on my book 'The Next Billion Users' Am a fan of this company as they really personally transformed my ways of listening and experiencing music.It...
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Keynote and panel discussion at Deutsche Welle in Bonn
Brilliant experience in the last two days at Deutsche Welle (DW) at the FOME Symposium organized in Bonn on Rethinking media development - New actors, new technologies and new strategies. I gave my...
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Keynote at the DesignUp conference on 'Irrational Design'
DesignUp, a Design-in-Tech conference in Bangalore, brought together an amazing and forward thinking group of designers, UX researchers, data scientists, policy makers, business leaders and...
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Keynote for the Privacy and Identity Conference
I was invited to give a keynote for the members of the Privacy and Identity Lab, an interesting group of privacy scholars at the Kings Ballroom in the Hague. What was particularly fascinating about...
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The co—matter podcast out on sex, trust, and the next billion
At the Techfestival in Copenhagen, I got to chat with Severin Matusek of the Co-Matter Podcast on why Pornhub continues to be a powerful hook for people in the global south to adopt the internet and...
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Kick off for 2020 with the India book tour
What a way to begin 2020 - full of spice and color and drama! Basically it felt like a year of celebration was starting. I embarked on my book tour in Pune for the India Science Fest which drew a crowd...
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Keynote at the ITStrategy Hamburg Summit
Had a fascinating experience at the IT Strategy Days Summit that was held on the 12-14 February at the Grand Elysse in Hamburg. Some of the most influential IT and business CEOs, CIOs, and other...
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My Next Billion Users book wins the 2019 PROSE Award: Business Category
Got fantastic news that my 'Next Billion Users' book by Harvard Press has won the PROSE Award under the Business, Management, Finance category. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) unveiled...
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