Aaditeshwar Seth is the co-founder of Gram Vaani. He also teaches computer science at IIT Delhi. Aaditeshwar is passionate about building technology for social development that actually leads to impact.
Most digital public goods disempower publics and distract from strengthening more fundamental democratic devices. It is time to design and manage them not as technologies from above but as…
The pandemic could have been an opportunity for India's welfare measures to shine. But poorly designed interfaces, centralisation, and lack of accountability have made access difficult,…
The Indian state’s lack of empathy for the weakest could be seen so clearly in the hardships it imposed on the poor during the Covid-19 lockdown. This can be fixed only by listening to people's…
Workers, cultivators, and small businesses have borne the brunt of India’s 21-day lockdown against the spread of the coronavirus. They narrate their experiences of the crisis, from early rumours of a…
