Topic
Covid19
15 items.
14 Apr 2025
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Emotional Contagion: Theorising the Role of Affect in COVID-19 Information DisorderIn this paper, we investigate the underexplored emotional drivers of information disorder, with a particular focus on how it manifested in COVID-19 misinformation in India. While "fake news" has received considerable attention for its …
11 Apr 2025
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Emotional Contagion: Theorising the Role of Affect in COVID-19 Information DisorderIn this paper, we investigate the underexplored emotional drivers of information disorder, with a particular focus on how it manifested in COVID-19 misinformation in India. While "fake news" has received considerable attention for its …
10 Jul 2023
Blog post
Health Data Management Policies - Differences Between the EU and IndiaThrough this issue brief we would like to highlight the differences in approaches to health data management taken by the EU and India, and look at possible recommendations for India, in creating a privacy preserving health data management …
10 Aug 2021
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Techno-solutionist Responses to COVID-19The Indian state has increasingly adopted a digital approach to service delivery over the past decade, with vaccination being the latest area to be subsumed by this strategy. In the context of the need for universal vaccination, the …
3 Aug 2021
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Do We Really Need an App for That? Examining the Utility and Privacy Implications of India’s Digital Vaccine CertificatesWe examine the purported benefits of digital vaccine certificates over regular paper-based ones and analyse the privacy implications of their use.
25 Jun 2021
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IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and SafetyBetween July to November 2019, Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, conducted 2,128 surveys across 6 major cities: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, …
3 Jun 2021
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Atmanirbhar Bharat Meets Digital India: An Evaluation of COVID-19 Relief for MigrantsWith the onset of the national lockdown on 24th March 2020 in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the fate of millions of migrant workers was left uncertain. In addition, lack of enumeration and registration of migrant workers became a …
31 Dec 2020
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Pandemic Technology takes its Toll on Data PrivacyThe absence of any legal framework has meant these tools are now being used for purposes beyond managing the pandemic.
17 Sep 2020
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IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19This report, by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, explores the responses to the outbreak of Covid-19 by digital platform based companies, trade …
1 Aug 2020
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Raina Roy and Abhiraj Bag - Kolkata’s trans community has been locked out of healthcare and livelihoodOver six months into the outbreak of Covid-19 in India, it has become clear that the pandemic does not affect everybody equally. It has amplified the sufferings of the already-marginalised trans community. Raina Roy spoke to 10 trans …
22 Jun 2020
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'I feel the pain of having nowhere to go': A Manipuri Trans Woman Recounts Her Ongoing Lockdown Ordeal"My life and work in Bengaluru came to an abrupt halt with the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown this March. We no longer had jobs and were forced to plan our departure from the city." -- As told to Santa Khurai, Manipur-based queer and Nupi …
16 Jun 2020
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DWRU, BBGS & MKU - The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Invisible Workers of the Household EconomyDomestic Workers Rights Union (DWRU), Bruhat Bangalore Gruhakarmika Sangha (BBGS), and Manegelasa Kaarmikara Union (MKU) have prepared a report on the invisibilisation of domestic workers under the Covid-19 pandemic and a set of demands …
15 Jun 2020
19 May 2020
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A Compilation of Research on the Gig EconomyOver the past year, researchers at CIS have been studying gig economies and gig workers in India. Their work has involved consultative discussions with domestic workers, food delivery workers, taxi drivers, trade union leaders, and …
30 Apr 2020
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COVID-19 Charter Of Recommendations on Gig WorkTandem Research and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a webinar on 9 April 2020, with unions representing gig workers and researchers studying labour rights and gig work, to uncover the experiences of gig workers during the …