Our partner Project Concern International (PCI) has written about our work with JEEViKA (Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotion Society) during the lockdown.
Mar ’21: Gram Vaani in a CGAP paper
Read CGAP's paper 'Elevating the Collective Consumer Voice in Financial Regulation' that highlights our work during the lockdown.
Recognition for our COVID-19 response services
Our COVID-19 esponse work has been recognised by national and international organisations alike. Click to know more.
A participatory video and audio platform for community interaction using DVDs and IVR systems – D. Chakraborty and A. Seth. ACM DEV (3), 2013 (poster)
Community screenings in rural India through DVDs and projectors have had an impact in improving education [1], agricultural information dissemination [3] and community empowerment
The Limits of Design in Ensuring Responsible Outcomes from Technology – A. Seth. ICTD, 2020.
There is growing concern that even though rapid progress in the development of many technologies has produced positive outcomes, there have also been significant harmful...
Ensuring Responsible Outcomes from Technology – A. Seth. Invited talk and paper. COMSNETS 2019.
There is growing concern that although rapid technology development has produced amazing outcomes, there have also been significant harmful effects for many reasons.
Application of Mobile Phones and Social Media to Improve Grievance Redressal in Public Services – A. Seth, A. Katyal, R. Bhatia (IIT Delhi), D. Kapoor, Balachandran C, V. Venkat, A. Moitra, S. Chatterjee, M. Shivam, Z. Koradia (Gram Vaani), and P. Naidu (Action India). M4D Web Foundation workshop 2012
Most government departments exhibit poor grievance redressal performance. It is common to hear people complain about broken roads and poor drainage in their neighbourhoods, but...
Airavat: an automated system to increase transparency and accountability in social welfare schemes in India – V. Srinivasan, V. Vardhan, S. Kar, S. Asthana, R. Narayanan, P. Singh, D. Chakraborty, A. Singh, and A. Seth. ICTD, 2013 (poster)
Activist groups have taken up information dissemination and feedback collection as a means of rights advocacy in India.
Building Citizen Engagement into the Implementation of Welfare Schemes in Rural India – D. Chakraborty and A. Seth. ICTD, 2015
Citizen feedback on the implementation of social welfare schemes can help fine tune their design, understand problems, and assess the benefits and impact from these...
