Technology and Empowerment | India
Projects
The following projects are associated with both the Technology and Empowerment research area and the SCAI center.
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Technology platforms are emerging as a new kind of workplace: from crowdwork to ‘peer economy’ platforms. This project uses ethnographic methods to address questions such as: Who are the workers on these platforms? What are their work practices? How do…
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This project explores the impact of different forms of money and financial technologies on financial inclusion for low and variable income communities. It includes a number of interrelated initiatives from understanding the impact of digital money on auto-rickshaw drivers loan payments…
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99DOTS is a technology-enabled project focusing on medication adherence for anti-Tuberculosis drugs. Treatment programs wrap each anti-TB blister pack in a custom envelope, which hides phone numbers behind the medication. Patients can only see these hidden numbers after dispensing their…
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One of the greatest challenges in providing information and communication technology access is that about 775 million people in the world are completely non-literate and many are able to read only with great difficulty and effort. Even though mobile phone…