Please join us for the Change Seminar next week on Tuesday 4/24/2018 in EEB 037.

Who: Vivek Srinivasan, Research Scientist at UW Tech Policy Lab

When: Tuesday, April 24th, 12-1pm

  

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss some design principles for building civic technologies to combat corruption and to improve democratic participation. The presentation is based on the lessons learned from the Combating Corruption with Mobile Phones project that I initiated at Stanford University in 2011.  

Bio: I am a Research Scientist at the Tech Policy Lab (UW) and a faculty affiliate at the Georgetown University's School of Foreign Studies. I started my work life in 2000 where I had the privilege of working with some of India's leading activists and who used their political imagination to mobilize people, fight corruption and make governments more accountable. At that time, I realized that technology, if used with the right kind of political imagination, could help in improving democracy and accountability. That interest took me to Stanford, where I worked with the Program on Liberation Technology for six years. At UW, I am learning Value Sensitive Design and applying them current tech policy issues. You can find more about me at http://viveks.info/me.