Data Societies

Data Societies is the first of the many EPW Conversations to come. This one is a collaboration between EPW and the School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS.

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Correction: Aasim Khan is a teacher at IIIT Delhi, not IIT Delhi. Apologies for the mistake.

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Panel II: The Data State is about to begin. We will be live tweeting snippets of the conversation on this thread. Stay tuned.

Dr Vidya Subramanian @vidyas42 will be chairing the panel. @digitaldutta, Aasim Khan and @SakinaDH are the panelists. #EPWConversations #DataSocieties

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With this Panel II: The Data State comes to an end. Panel III: The Data Economy will begin in an hour. Watch this space.

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With this we come to an end to Panel III: The Data Economy. That's it for today!

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Panel III: The Data Economy will begin in 10 minutes. We'll be live tweeting snippets from the discussion on this thread.

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Panel III: The Data Economy will be chaired by Aayush Rathi @RathiAayush. He is a researcher with the Centre for Internet and Society. The panelists are Aditi Surie @sosurie, a sociologist teaching at IIHS; Alok Prasanna Kumar, a senior resident fellow at @Vidhi_India and...

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NR: The answer is yes. And that's why framing it as competition is misidentifying the problem.

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APK: "In the Indian context, a new entrant in the telecom sector disrupted the sector entirely. We're down to 3 and a half companies in that sector. And soon we might as well end up with 2 and a half companies."

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Alok Prasanna Kumar: "When a bank goes down, it doesn't just take down people it owes money and people who money to it. It takes down many other banks. But a company, like Google, going down will not have that kind of impact. I don't see Google going down any time soon.