Whither Humane-Computer Interaction? Adult and Child Value Conflicts in the Biometric Fingerprinting for Food

Potentialities and affordances of grassroots civic tech platforms as effective anti-corruption tools: Decoding the story of I Paid A Bribe, India

“…Corruption continues to be a mainstay in India's political discourses (Jenkins, 2007) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has firmly cemented his role as a crusader against corruption (Varshney, 2017) through his multiple policies since coming to power in 2014, most notably the Indian demonetisation experiment of 2016 which scrapped two high-value Indian currency notes to discourage the hoarding of cash and to encourage a move towards digital payments (Sam et al, 2021). The country has also made steady progress in e-governance, which has seen rapid digitisation in the public sector allowing greater access to information and services online, ensuring transparency and plugging leakages in the system through better service delivery (see for example, Bhatnagar et al, 2003;Prakash, 2016;Mudliar, 2020;Sam et al, 2021). The role of technological interventions in curbing corruption has however been strictly discussed in the academic literature on the lines of e-governance from the top, without engaging in the potential of grassroots interventions from civil society actors.…”

Digital Media and Grassroots Anti-Corruption

“…Corruption continues to be a mainstay in India's political discourses (Jenkins, 2007) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has firmly cemented his role as a crusader against corruption (Varshney, 2017) through his multiple policies since coming to power in 2014, most notably the Indian demonetisation experiment of 2016 which scrapped two high-value Indian currency notes to discourage the hoarding of cash and to encourage a move towards digital payments (Sam et al, 2021). The country has also made steady progress in e-governance, which has seen rapid digitisation in the public sector allowing greater access to information and services online, ensuring transparency and plugging leakages in the system through better service delivery (see for example, Bhatnagar et al, 2003;Prakash, 2016;Mudliar, 2020;Sam et al, 2021). The role of technological interventions in curbing corruption has however been strictly discussed in the academic literature on the lines of e-governance from the top, without engaging in the potential of grassroots interventions from civil society actors.…”

Cashlessness in India: Vision, policy and practices

“…Most recently from Gita Gopinath, the present Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund lauded the JAM infrastructure (NDTV, 2021). However, scholars studying e-governance in India have also shown that while the government's rhetoric on such technologies is overly optimistic, as now the entire service delivery process becomes traceable, public officials seldom take into consideration the infrastructural disadvantages such as limited Internet connection or the problems that a complex technological interface poses for various sections of people, especially those they seek to include (see for example Mudliar, 2020;. In the case of demonetisation too, several of the critiques of this policy, including by Indian economists such as Amartya Sen, Jayati Ghosh, CP Chandrasekhar and Prabhat Patnaik, ex-Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and ex-governor of the central Reserve Bank of India and ex-Chief Economist of the IMF, Raghuram Rajan (Business Today, 2016;Ghosh, Chandrasekhar and Patnaik, 2017), pointed out how limited access to digital infrastructure could negatively affect small and medium size enterprises as well as other sections of India's heavily cash-based economy.…”