#DesignUpForACause
As the second wave in India unfolds with disastrous consequences and with my continued distance from family, colleagues, and friends in India, I am grateful that the design community has come up with a small way for me to contribute! The organization DesignUp has stepped up and has succeeded in getting an online event #DesignUpForACause … Continue reading #DesignUpForACause
Rest of World Op Ed: AI isn’t going to save us
The AI solutions championed by tech titans promise to repeat a toxic history of self-defined goodness. My Opinion piece is out in the Rest of World Imagine a world with no elephants. Resolve, a nonprofit committed to ending poaching of endangered animals, warns that this fiction could become fact in a mere decade, as an … Continue reading Rest of World Op Ed: AI isn’t going to save us
My review of Wilkerson’s Caste book in NRC
Today, my review on Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist’s book ‘Caste: the lies that divide us’ is out in the NRC news media outlet in Dutch. Below is the English version. ———————————— Is this the ‘Book of the Century’ or a dangerously seductive tale? Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is a bible for this divisive … Continue reading My review of Wilkerson’s Caste book in NRC
A lot of ‘firsts’ this month: in the press
What a month! I have to say with all the craziness and intense work pressure, it is rewarding to be acknowledged in the media, in my adopted homeland, The Netherlands, and my prior homeland, the United States. A journalist at the Financial Times in the Netherlands contacted me after reading my article in the NRC … Continue reading A lot of ‘firsts’ this month: in the press
Live talk after 6 months at Hofplein theatre Rotterdam
Since the pandemic kicked in and confined us all to the screen, I have been doing a marathon of webinars with a spectrum of people from academics, product designers, internal tech teams in corporations, public festivals to policy summits. I even did a book talk via Instagram with an influencer which was itself quite an … Continue reading Live talk after 6 months at Hofplein theatre Rotterdam
Twitter war with Rutger Bregman
On June 14 2020, my article in the NRC (Dutch newspaper) critiqued Rutger Bregman, the historian and author celebrity on his “new” story in The Guardian ‘The real lord of the Flies’ that got much attention in these recent weeks and has resulted in a movie deal. What really provoked me to write this article … Continue reading Twitter war with Rutger Bregman
Speaking engagements in June
Webinar overload Looks like I have over-committed to my speaking gigs in June. As my travel like everyone else has been restricted, the fervor to be connected has dramatically increased across the world to share our ideas and visions on the redesign of systems in light of COVID. This global solidarity has compelled me to … Continue reading Speaking engagements in June
Launch of Feminist Labour Collectives Initiative
Feminist Labour Collectives website has just been launched -check it out! FemLab.Co It is a project funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) that builds on an understanding of communicative ecologies of women in specific sites of informal labour to explore how digital platforms can be leveraged by them to share grievances and communicate … Continue reading Launch of Feminist Labour Collectives Initiative
Webinar talk: Feminist perspective on the Future of Work
I was invited to speak at a webinar on “The digital economy in Asia: feminist perspectives” organized by the Women and future of work working group of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Asia, in cooperation with WIDE+ on 22nd April. This webinar provided an interesting and much-needed discussion on how feminism in the Fourth Industrial Revolution … Continue reading Webinar talk: Feminist perspective on the Future of Work
The COVID effect: Webinars, Virtual keynotes…
With the cascading cancellations and postponement of talks due to COVID, some organizations are rising to the challenge and leveraging on webinars to continue the conversation. I took part in a webinar panel discussion organized by DesignUP to discuss the future of design, remote working, re-skilling, ethics and responsible design by delving deeper into their … Continue reading The COVID effect: Webinars, Virtual keynotes…
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