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Tune in tomorrow night, at 9:30pm IST for Yesha Tshering Paul's takeover of the account to participate in a live #TwitterChat with the #GoodID movement, and #DigitalID researchers from across the world, for a discussion on the appropriate uses and limitations of digital identity systems.

Please bookmark for weekend reads! The report is a labour of love, and has been in the works since 2019. Plenty of insights into how digital platforms are changing (or not) the domestic work sector in India

Save the date! On 22 July, in collaboration with Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative we are hosting the first session of a series of panel discussions on #DigitalIdentity, with this session focusing on #DigitalID in Nigeria. forms.gle/59TWZDYse3AWbL…

Register for our event today, in collaboration with Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative, for a panel discussion on #DigitalIdentity in Nigeria, at 2:30pm IST, with panelists Hadiza Dagabana, from NIMC, and Saumyaa Naidu, moderated by Solomon Okedara from Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We are also live on Youtube! youtube.com/watch?v=nlSfw2…

Very proud of the work done by Centre for Internet and Society on #DigitalIDDesign. Our work can be accessed at digitalid.design. Big shout out to Yesha Tshering Paul shruti trikanad Akash Pooja Saxena Saumyaa Naidu Vrinda Bhandari et al. Vote for us! good-id.org/en/awards/2021/

Today, at 19:00 IST, tune in to ID4Africa‘s “Unprecedented Global Dialogue” on mitigating the risks of identity systems. Amber Sinha, and Yesha Tshering Paul are speaking at the LiveCast, presenting an evaluation of ID systems in ten African countries. id4africa.com/livecast-ep23-…

NOW UP! Yesha Tshering Paul Yesha Tshering Paul , Centre for Internet and Society Centre for Internet and Society , shares on evaluating digital ID systems of 10 African countries. In depth presentation!

For the last 6-8 months, I have been working with the good folks at Centre for Internet and Society & Research ICT Africa on this report titled "Towards the Evaluation of Socio-Digital ID Ecosystems in Africa: Comparative analysis of findings from ten country case studies". I papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

This is a culmination of over two years of research at Centre for Internet and Society. We look at a variety of technology and policy design choices, deep-dive into and critique existing ID systems and question notions of trust.

This week, we launched the #DecisionGuide for #DigitalIdentitySystems. This is the flagship report of our project of over two years examining #DigitalIDDesign in systems across the world, and creating a toolkit to make more informed decisions digitalid.design/decisions-guid…

Are colonially-rooted #DigitalID systems introducing new forms of #DataColonialism? In a report with Research ICT Africa, Anri van der Spuy, Vrinda Bhandari, shruti trikanad, and Yesha Tshering Paul map the state of #DigitalIdentity systems in ten countries in Africa. #DigitalIDDesign digitalid.design/RIA_Comparativ…

Civil society organisations from around the world wrote an open letter to the World Bank, a major funder of ID yet not doing enough to prevent exclusion, insecurity and surveillance. #IdentityCrisis privacyinternational.org/advocacy/4945/…

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Join us on 25 February at #Rightscon2025 where Shweta, P.P. Sneha, & @NeatLefty will host a discussion on the ethical concerns surrounding the use of AI systems in #GlobalSouth healthcare landscapes to identify potential patient-centered solutions. Register: RightsCon

Join us on 26 Feb for an interactive roundtable at #Rightscon2025(RightsCon) where Yesha Tshering Paul, Amrita Sengupta, & HeatherLeson - @[email protected] will challenge the understanding of information disorders through the lens of its emotional underpinnings, and foster a deeper understanding of the issue

📢📢In "Emotional Contagion: Theorising the Role of Affect in COVID-19 Information Disorder", Yesha Tshering Paul & Amrita Sengupta explore affect's role by analysing the emotional aspects of info processing for COVID vaccine-related misinfo. #COVID19 Read more: shorturl.at/6Hsqv