What Role Can India Play in Shaping Global Standards for Socially Intelligent, Just, and Ethical AI?
Fireside chat at the Just AI Awards 2025 ceremony, 7th Digital Citizen Summit / AI Impact Summit. Chair Jayesh Ranjan; moderator Osama Manzar. Recorded as "AI at a Crossroads: Voices Challenging the Hype".
Tech-Policy Interventions for Low-Resource Languages
Roundtable moderator, Day 1; panellists Banwang Losu (Wancho Literary Society), Dr. Bhushan Bhave (Vidya Prabodhini), Dr. Meenakshi Munda (Kolhan University) and Runa Bhattacharjee (Wikimedia Foundation).
Restaurant Technology Show panel
Appearing for Foodhub. The week ran 18–20 May 2025 at the MCEC, uniting four shows: Foodservice Australia, the Pizza Pasta & Italian Food Show, the Commercial Kitchen Show and the Restaurant Technology Show.
The Identity Project: Unmaking of a Democracy — in conversation with Rahul Bhatia
Day 3 of the festival (1–3 November 2024). Identity, identification and democracy, around Rahul Bhatia's book.
The Future of AI: Opportunities & Challenges
Track 1, Ethical AI-solutions for Social Good (Digital Empowerment Foundation & Emerging Technologies, Government of Telangana). Also served on the awards jury and technical advisory committee. DEF India published the recording as "AI for Social Good: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Way Forward".
What comes after digital identity on public digital infrastructures
Community lab proposed by the Rethink Aadhaar group; accepted for the fully online RightsCon 2021.
Finally, do we have the Personal Data Protection Act
Session aired live 4:00-5:00 PM IST and recorded by ITechLaw.
On Risks of the Data Protection Bill
An afternoon on WhatsApp and vigilante violence, then this panel with Nayantara Ranganathan and Arvind Narrain, weeks after the bill reached Parliament. He read it as a weaponisation of the privacy judgement that takes away informational self-determination, and argued it had to be read alongside the account aggregator framework; he circulated a marked-up copy of the bill that morning.
Speaker, Round Table on Data Protection
Invited as a marquee speaker after confirming participation in the round table.
Revisiting Aadhaar: Law, Tech and Beyond
Convened four months before the Supreme Court recognised privacy as a fundamental right; the summary report was covered in the press.
Global Justice in a Digital World
One panel — "Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt", on the consequences of the smartification of life — carried across five German cities with Lina Ben Mhenni, who blogged the Tunisian revolt, and Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier in the Congo who worked the coltan mines. Dated from the organisers' own listing, which put Hamburg on 6 October.
Digital Rights Movements & Global Justice
One panel — "Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt", on the consequences of the smartification of life — carried across five German cities with Lina Ben Mhenni, who blogged the Tunisian revolt, and Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier in the Congo who worked the coltan mines.
Global Justice in a Digital World
One panel — "Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt", on the consequences of the smartification of life — carried across five German cities with Lina Ben Mhenni, who blogged the Tunisian revolt, and Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier in the Congo who worked the coltan mines. The organisers listed Bremen as 7 or 8 October without settling it, so the day is not recorded here.
Opened the conference, then ran a working session on the Free Basics campaign; a four-city German speaking tour followed.
Global Justice in a Digital World
One panel — "Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt", on the consequences of the smartification of life — carried across five German cities with Lina Ben Mhenni, who blogged the Tunisian revolt, and Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier in the Congo who worked the coltan mines.
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