Tarunima Prabhakar is no longer with Carnegie India.
Tarunima Prabhakar is a researcher working at the intersection of technology, policy, and global development. Her recent work looks at the impact of machine learning and predictive analytics, loosely called AI, on access to credit and other essential services in India. She also leads Tattle, an open source project she co-founded to make accurate information more accessible to mobile first users in India and to increase visibility to trends on chat apps. She was previously a research fellow at the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity at UC, Berkeley. As a practitioner, she has worked on ICTD and Data Driven Development projects with non-profits and tech companies in Asia and the United States.
“Closed” messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram have grown in reach and adoption in recent years and have transformed elections-related communications. However, understanding their impact upon larger public discussion poses a conundrum for researchers.
How unregulated lending apps preyed on the financial uncertainty of Indians, and what can be done to protect borrowers in the future.
A historical lens demonstrates the often ignored relationship between data and hardware. A policy kit to equitably distribute the benefits of an increasingly data-fied society must include support for open hardware principles.
As work continues on India’s Personal Data Protection Bill, the Indian government has taken steps to attempt to regulate the use of Non-Personal Data. This workshop covered the basic features of the proposed regulations and the implications of the regulation of this space.
Celebrity WhatsApp texts have been flashed on TV ever since the Sushant Singh Rajput case took over news. Govts do not need backdoor access to it.
India must treat recovery from the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to remedy long-standing problems with its economy. If left untreated, these problems could precipitate other crises.
This webinar seeks to explore the kinds of technology available to the police, its integration into the system — and how they can be used to safeguard the public, without infringing on rights and freedoms.
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In this episode of Carnegie Insights, Tarunima Prabhakar discusses the infodemic caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the dangers of misinformation and fake news. She examines the role of social media algorithms and citizen responsibility in spreading misinformation. Prabhakar emphasizes the need for proactive communication, government campaigns, and good information hygiene to manage this crisis effectively.
