Tech Policy & AI Accountability

As digital technologies increasingly shape our environments, rights, and choices, we help our clients analyse these technologies from inclusive, equitable, and sustainable lenses. We work on ensuring that data systems, technologies, and AI tools are adopted in ways that uplift communities and prevent harm.

Mapping Algorithmic Welfare Systems in India

A project mapping algorithmic welfare systems across India to inform more transparent, accountable, and inclusive use of technology in public service delivery.

Algorithmic Accountability in Welfare and Identity Systems

As digital technologies proliferate within governance and welfare systems, algorithms decide who gets included and who gets left out. These technologies rely on tricky data sets, and function with limited transparency and lack of requisite safeguards. Our roundtable and workshop examined how accountability frameworks must evolve to keep pace with these databases, platforms, and code.

Welfare Algorithms

How do data biases and algorithmic systems impact welfare delivery? This project examines the rollout of tech-driven welfare delivery mechanisms, mapping pathways to improve the efficacy.

Understanding Unfriendly Tech

A field research on the effectiveness of Madhya Pradesh’s VanMitra Portal in forest rights recognition, assessing its accessibility, responsiveness, and impact on timely and accurate processing of claims.

Whose tech is it anyway?

A field research study on Gujarat’s use of technology for verifying claims under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) examines how digital tools are being integrated into the verification process and their effectiveness in ensuring transparency and efficiency.

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