‘Research must ask the right questions, sensitise technologists, communicate effectively to stakeholders’
The HinduAs a city grows, so do its problems. The latest TomTom traffic index has rated the city’s traffic as the third slowest in the world. Part of IIIT-B’s Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy, an interdisciplinary research and advocacy centre that focuses on the policy challenges and the organisational demands made by technological innovation, Parthasarathy speaks to The Hindu about the works of CITAPP, the role of research in sensitising technologists, policymakers and other stakeholders about the social implications of technology, and why it is crucial to ask the larger questions. But there were also questions about why is it that India exports only services and doesn’t have product companies like Microsoft or Adobe. We’ve also done some of the initial research in this country on things like information accessibility.
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