This is an appreciation tweet for Nitya Ramakrishnan. This feisty senior advocate today finally got bail from the Supreme Court for Gautam Adlakha who has remained incarcerated without trial for 6 yrs in the Bhima Koregaon Case!

A deeply important article on the role of ML/AI in the Israeli extermination campaign and in warfare at large. Draws on my work to powerfully illustrate the moral threat of supposed “theory-freedom” in ML. joinreboot.org/p/ghost-in-a-r…

Please resign Rajiv kumar and the rest at ECI. This is a disgrace

This The Indian Express report from Karnataka made my day. This is what governments can do. What better use of public funds than to have women travel more -- and have more women travel? google.com/amp/s/indianex…

📯New post from Community Health Interests for Researchers & Oversight Networks 📯 in which CHIRON academic workgroup members astha kapoor of aaptiinstitute & Samuel Moore explore meaning & propose framing for defining *community* in biorepository contexts sagebionetworks.pubpub.org/pub/iu4orqho

Who are the grassroots organisations and individuals working on digital and #financialinclusion in India? Especially interested in voices from rural areas, the mountains, and places off the beaten track. This is for a research project

Grateful for any leads! 🙏

Critically important piece by gil duran about what the wealthiest & most powerful people in San Francisco, including Balaji, are envisioning for our futures.

newrepublic.com/article/180487…

Starting now ' #MeaningfulConnectivity in the G20 Brasil'
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Join in to hear astha kapoor speak about the role connectivity played to unleash digital transformation in India!

Bangalore folks, a friend who is a Muslim is finding it hard to find a house because of her religion. Several house owners have said she should not have Muslims over or have refused outright. She is looking at some place in/near Indiranagar/Koramangala
Please help?

Comparison of Manifestos
I studied both the INC manifesto, and the BJP manifesto, at length.

A key learning is -
> INC is talking about today, and the immediate tomorrow. Huge focus on urgent jobs creation. Stress of today being tackled today.
> BJP is focused on the remote

.Congress has released its 2024 Election Manifesto – the ‘Nyay Patra’.

We're pleased to see the inclusion of some key digital rights issues in the party’s governance priorities this general election. 1/7
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How can data co-ops help #women ?

Watch this video where members from the Enyorata Loviluku Women’s Group from Tanzania share their experiences on adding a #data layer to their group structure for their #financialempowerment !

📹youtu.be/vSesnTXsJqU?si……

Data2X

Join us for our roundtable which showcases Aapti & Data2X work with the Enyorata Loviluku Women’s Group & highlights learnings from running the first cohort supported by Centre for Unusual Collaborations, The Rockefeller Foundation & Dalberg Catalyst

Register here: bit.ly/3xksQo0

It’s our first episode of the season and we are celebrating Women! 💜

We celebrated International women’s day with Amrita Nanda amrita nanda and Astha Kapoor @kapoorastha from Aapti Institute aaptiinstitute in an episode on Femtech: Feminine Tech or Feminist Tech.

Effective data governance is collective, democratic, participatory, deliberative, powerful...and achievable!

Our observatory of participatory data governance practice collects together examples from organisations of all shapes and sizes, across the world.
connectedbydata.org/cases

Join Data@Work:
Platforms and Workers' Data, a virtual event cohosted by GIZ & Aapti with speakers Megan Kathure, Rafael Zanatta and James Farrar

🗓️20 Mar
🕰️ 12 pm CET/4:30 pm IST
Register here: app.guestoo.de/public/event/7…

Data Privacy Brasil Worker Info Exchange Sarayu Natarajan astha kapoor

Take a sneak peak at our panelists for our session titled Redefining Platform Work organised along with King's India Institute on 21 March from 17:30 to 19:00 in Bush House London

Register now: kcl.ac.uk/events/redefin…

I wrote about how creative media workers' self-reflexivity about the industry-in-digital transit helps us trace notions of value and taste in Bombay’s emerging digital media ecologies. Now out in Television and New Media and open access:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…

Read our March deep dive on #gender inclusion and #tech
Artwork by Ananya Broker Parekh

Read here: mailchi.mp/ce15f400bb35/g…
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