media, information, the contemporary

Tag: Data


  • Ethnographies of Social Data

    Big Data and the Data Revolution have been pitched as a potential transformation of all modes of digital data collection, organization, storage, mining, analytics and visualization. The proliferation of digital infrastructures and information after the social media revolution called Web 2.0, has led to a global movement around leveraging the enormous potential of data to…

  • Startup States | 2-9 February 2019 – Exhibition and Events

    Startup States Sarai Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 29 Rajpur Road Delhi 110054, India Opening Saturday 2nd of February, 2019 Open 11am – 6pm 2nd – 9th February Startup States investigates post-colonial legacies inherent in contemporary forms of power exercised through data-driven governance.

  • Programmers and Archivists Workshop

    The Sarai Programme and the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society’s Digital Innovation Fund are organising a meeting on Sunday, 27th January to present and discuss the futures of Pandora and Open Media Library, two open media archiving/sharing software projects by Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert, and to explore key questions and challenges…

  • Lives of Data v2.0: Computing, Money, Media Workshop, 05-06 January 2018

    The Sarai Programme is organising the Lives of Data v2.0: Computing, Money, Media Workshop on 05-06 January, 2018. The workshop examines the historical and emergent conditions of data-driven knowledge and value production and circulation in India and South Asia. It expands upon the cross-disciplinary conversations initiated by the first ‘Lives of Data’ Workshop, in January 2017. The…

  • OpenDataCamp Delhi – 02 December, 2017

    The Sarai Programme will host DataMeet’s OpenDataCamp Delhi 2017, a one day un-conference, on Saturday, 02 December, 2017. DataMeet organised OpenDataCamp in Delhi in 2014 and in 2015 to create discussion, and a space for people involved in opening up and working with government and non-government data. This year’s edition will focus on open data in the development…

  • Call for Abstracts – Lives of Data v2.0: Computing, Money, Media Workshop

    We are excited to announce the ‘Lives of Data v2.0: Computing, Money, Media’ Workshop, on 05-06 January 2018. Call for Abstracts The first ‘Lives of Data’ Workshop, in January 2017, initiated engaging, cross-disciplinary conversations on the historical, cultural, political, and technological conditions of data-driven knowledge production and circulation in India and South Asia. The workshop…

  • Lives of Data Workshop – Report & Recordings

    The ‘Lives of Data’ workshop, 05-07 January 2017, brought together a diverse group of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to reflect upon the historical and emergent conditions of data-driven knowledge production in India and South Asia. The workshop initiated wide-ranging conversations on history of statistics, media and computational cultures, politics and practices of data-driven governance, and…

  • Lives of Data Workshop – January 5-7, 2017

    The Sarai Programme, CSDS is organising the Lives of Data Workshop on 5th to 7th January, 2017. The workshop examines the historical and emergent conditions of data-driven knowledge production and circulation in India and South Asia. In the context of the Data Revolution, the workshop links emerging research on the history of statistics, new/old technological…

  • Workshop on ‘Privacy after Big Data’, November 12

    The Sarai Programme and The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invite you to a workshop on ‘Privacy after Big Data: What Changes? What should Change?‘ on Saturday, November 12, 2016. This workshop aims to build a dialogue around some of the key government-led big data initiatives in India and elsewhere that are contributing significant new…

  • Context is King: Contextualisation of Models and Simulations

    “Models and simulations, both, represent certain reality in an abstract form…we are essentially trying to represent reality in some sense. [It is an] abstraction of reality – it could be a mathematical model, simulation model, or a physical model. When we develop a model there are a lot of parameters that need to be tuned, such as vehicle distribution, speed profile… Generally the software would have default values for these parameters and they have to be tuned based on Indian contexts. This becomes much more complicated in our traffic conditions because of the heterogeneity and non-lane-based movement. All this has to be replicated well in the simulation model…”