Social Divides and Diversity

 

Speakers: Ms. Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research; Dr. Sunil Abraham, Vice-President, Mozilla Foundation; and Shri Osama Manzer, Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation

 

 

 

Chair: Ambassador Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC

 

 

 

The session will explore how advances in technology are impacting on social interactions and human behaviour particularly in a country with strong traditions and deeply ingrained patterns of thinking. Digital technologies carry the promise of democratizing societies, empowering marginalized sections of society and opening up new opportunities for women. These trends are already apparent in India. However, there are also certain negative aspects to the use of these technologies which may strain the social fabric and even undermine the institutions and processes of a democratic state. The session will aim to address some these very topical issues and promote a well-informed public discourse with particular reference to India

 

 

 

The Future of Governance

 

Speakers: Dr. J. Satyanarayana, Chairman, UIDAI; Shri Ananth Padmanabhan, Fellow, Carnegie India; Ms Chinmayi Arun, Assistant Professor, National Law University, Delhi and Executive Director, Centre for Communication Governance; and Ms Vrinda Bhandari, Advocate

 

 

 

Chair: Shri Justice B.N. Srikrishna, former judge of the Supreme Court of India and Head of the Committee on Data Protection Framework in India

 

 

 

Second lecture in the series of talks organised in collaboration with NITI Aayog and Centre for Policy Research. The discussion would largely attempt to bring clarity into concepts like receptive technology and glacial government, response of regulators to the pace of technological advancements, era of blockchain and bitcoins, artificial intelligence, big data and forecasting