Course: Primer on making Techno Biographies to understand government technologies
Adhavan Sivaraj
Hello everybody. I'm sure many lurkers and participants of the Datameet group are interested or work with government data and/or technologies to some level. Thought this course might be interesting to develop and make visible a fuller understanding of the technologies we use.
To those interested in the design of technology for governance, policy design, technology impact studies, or generally in governance: Living Labs Institute is offering a primer to Techno Biographies: Imaginations of Citizens & Places in Governance Technologies
Does Gov-Tech (or Digital Public Infrastructures) Enable “Good Governance”?
How? For Whom?
- What ideals of “good governance” drive the design?
- Who are considered as “citizens”, & how?
- If and How does the diversity of people & places shape the design of governance technologies?
A biography of (governance) technology offers us a method to learn about these questions in more detail. When we trace and document the conceptual origins of a technology, the mechanisms of devising it and implementing it - first in a pilot mode and then at scale, it gives us a rich base to understand which ideas of a citizen is centered and put in practice. Digital technologies are actively used to enable “good governance”, ‘gov-tech’, or ‘digital public goods’. A lot of effort and resources are put in to design, develop, implement and also study the impact of such technologies on governance.
This is an online course running for 24 hours spread across 6 weeks, culminating in a hybrid exhibition on April 4th. The course begins on 24th February. More details, fee and application form is available at: https://livinglabs.institute/course/techno-biographies/
A note on Living Labs Institute:
LLI is a learning space grounded in place-based approach, where learning unfolds within the communities of Bidar, Kundapura, and Channapatna. Living Labs Institute is the convergence of our collective thoughts and actions to serve as a place-based institute fostering transdisplinary learning-collaborations to imagine, construct and pursue alternative pathways of differential development.
Thanks,
Adhavan
Fellow, LLI
adh...@livinglabs.institute