News Type: Event

The MPP Student Council is organising a webinar on ‘Effectively using Public Data to strengthen governance – Experience of Factly and the growing fact-checking phenomena.’

Speaker – Rakesh Dubbudu

Rakesh Dubbudu is an experienced RTI campaigner and founder of Factly a platform that strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using high-value government records at the center, state, and local body levels.

Themes to be discussed in webinar:

• The speaker’s insights on the utility of data as a public good, and the ways in which better public engagement can be achieved with the government data.
• Skills required to see through data and decide fact from fiction
• Career opportunities in the fact-checking space
• The speaker’s experiences regarding Factly and the fact-checking phenomenon.

Vlogging series: Felipe Castro Quiles vlogs on AI Policy Exchange

‘How to put AI ethics into practice?’ – If this question interests you, then make sure to check out the ‘Expert Vlogging Series’ by the AI Policy Exchange.  This topic is the first of many to be discussed as part of the series that will feature experts addressing some of the hardest questions confronting governance of artificially intelligent technologies.

AI Policy Exchange is the brainchild of a group of graduate students of the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

The series will feature vlogs from a technical or policy expert at the Exchange on a common question. The first vlog features Felipe Castro Quiles, a deep tech entrepreneur and Co-founder & CEO at Emerging Rule, an edtech public benefit corporation researching and developing AI for digital education. Watch the vlog here: https://cutt.ly/XumSPqL  

Why AI ethics?

The Policy Exchange said: “The question arises from findings by public policy and ethics researchers who claim that AI ethics principles & guidelines, proposed by various public bodies and private groups in their current form, likely have a negligible effect on the safe development, deployment, and use of artificially intelligent technologies.”

More about Felipe Castro Quiles:

Felipe is also Co-founder & CEO at GENIA Latinoamérica, an organization harnessing the power of machine learning to connect Latin America to a regional matrix of AI R&D. Felipe holds specializations in deep learning and virtual teaching, is Fellow at Singularity University in Silicon Valley, Member at NVIDIA AI Inception, and currently serves in Forbes Artificial Intelligence Executive Advisory Board and Virtual Educa Connect Advisory Board.

Event details

Organised by

Ford Foundation Chair on PIL

in collaboration with

Centre for Child and the Law (CCL)

National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore

and

Savitri Phule Ambedkar Caravan, NLSIU

Tuesday, April 14^th 2020

1800 hrs to 2000 hrs (IST)

 

The Covid 19 pandemic and the responses to it, including movement restrictions and suspension of ‘non-essential’ economic activities have proved devastating for India’s vulnerable, impoverished population. The worst hit in this pandemic, are small producers, vendors, daily wage labourers and small farmers. Movement restrictions have resulted in loss of business for vendors and small producers, small and marginal farmers are unable to market their produce, leading to severe forms of food insecurity and widespread hunger. It is to be noted that big companies and aggregators involved in supply of essential commodities are allowed to operate and the absence of such formal structures have kept poor people deprived of such opportunities. Special benefits announced by central and state governments are yet to reach them and in the meanwhile the poor communities especially those in remote and rural areas are facing a humanitarian crisis. Studies have shown that most such people have been subjected to multiple deprivations owing to not only their economic but social status as well.

Caste and religion have always played a major role in determining and realising the right to food. Historical deprivations and discrimination are multiplied in the wake of crisis and shortage of food supply. For socially marginalised groups, dependence on welfare schemes increases multifold because of the lack of livelihood opportunities. However, with COVID 19 pandemic even the entitlements are not getting realised leaving these marginalized groups reeling under severe hunger. At the Central and State level, support measures and welfare packages have been announced for the impoverished population to survive the pandemic, however, immediate implementation of such provisions remains a challenge. Closure of service delivery centres such as Anganwadi centres, Schools and Fair Price Shops or the challenges in reaching those centres, have endangered not only household level food security but have also resulted in blatant violation of right to food for children, children from marginalised social groups being most affected.

It is in this context that National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore is organising a Webinar on April 14th 2020, Ambedkar Jayanti, with a view to highlight the violation of right to food for marginalised social groups.

Specific objectives of the Webinar are:

1. To analyse the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on socially vulnerable populations with a focus on historically disadvantaged communities, women and children from low-income households, especially small farmers, vendors, casual/migrant workers in terms of their right to food and nutrition.
2. To understand the specific challenges on the ground and brainstorm on the immediate and strategic interventions to be made to support these communities realise their right to food.
3. To explore strategies to improve or supplement access to food and social security measures, through engagement with the community, civil society and the state.

Target Audience

• Civil Society Organizations
• Community Leaders and Workers’ representatives
• Students and Academics

Details:

Webinar Speakers:

1. Shri Harsh Mander, Delhi
2. Ms Kavita Srivastav, PUCL, Rajasthan
3. Dr Dipa Sinha, Ambedkar University, Delhi
4. Sylvia Karpagam, Public Health Doctor
5. Dr Ujjaini Halim, IMSE, West Bengal
6. Shri Haldhar Mahto, Jharkhand State Food Commission
7. Aditya Srivastava, Advocate, Delhi
8. Martin Rempiss, Bread for the World, Germany

The ‘Southern Tilt’ in the Urban: Embedded Wisdom and Cultural Specificity as Pathways to Planning – A Joint Conference of the Institute of Public Policy and URBAM (EAFIT University, Medellín) funded by Urban Studies Foundation, UK.

Conference Schedule

The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to a talk on “Cities of Indus Civilization: New Perspectives” by Nayanjot Lahiri.

About the talk:

Chaired by historian, archaeologist, and professor of History, Nayanjot Lahiri, this edition of the public lecture series looks to the nuances of the Indus Valley Civilization, and how the study of our past informs our understanding of contemporary sociopolitical circumstances.

Professor Nayanjot Lahiri is the winner of the 2013 Infosys Prize, in the humanities, for her work in archaeology and the 2016 awardee of the John F. Richards prize for her book Ashoka in Ancient India

The NLS Public Lecture Series invites you to a talk on ‘Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity: Development in International Law’ by Victor Madrigal-Borloz.

About the talk:

Chaired by Professor Victor Madrigal-Borloz, this edition of the public lecture series explores and addresses issues related to the legal recognition of sexual orientation and gender identity associated rights, within the realms of municipal and international law.

Professor Victor Madrigal-Borloz draws on his extensive expertise in the field of anti-discrimination, and several appointments including that of being a UN appointed Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

About the conference:

This year’s edition of the AnnualNLSIR-Samvād: Partners Symposium will focus on exploring the theme of ‘Unpacking Reservations in India: Theory, Practice, and Beyond’. The Symposium seeks to address the critical gaps in the conversation around reservations, while facilitating the forum for structured discussion on this relevant and important issue.

The NLSIR-Samvād: Partners Symposium is the annual conference organised by the National Law School of India Review, the flagship journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Venue Details:

December 08, 2019, 9 AM – 7.30 PM

The National Law School of India University, Bangalore
GnanaBharathi Main Rd, Opp NAAC, Teachers Colony,
Naagarabhaavi, Bengaluru,Karnataka 560072

Speakers and Sessions:

 The Seminar schedule and speakers are as below:

Session I: Reservations: Rethinking Roots in Constitutionalism

• Dr.AnandTeltumdbe, Professor, Goa Institute of Management, and civil rights activist
• Dr.SudhirKrishnaswamy, Vice-Chancellor, National Law School of India University, and co-founder, Centre for Law & Policy Research
• Prof. N. Sukumar, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

Session II: Mapping the Reservations Landscape: Policies and Precedents

• Mr. D. ShyamBabu, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research
• Dr.AnupSurendranath, Executive Director, Project 39A, and Professor, National Law University, Delhi
• Ms. KirubaMunusamy, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Session III: Deepening and Widening Affirmative Justice: The Way Forward

• Dr. Amitabh Kundu, Distinguished Fellow at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (New Delhi), and former Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Dr. Ajay Gudavarthy, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Ms. Jayna Kothari, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, and co-founder, Centre for Law & Policy Research

About NLSIR:

The NLSIR is the flagship law review of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The NLSIR is a student-edited, peer reviewed journal, and over the past 26 years has regularly featured pieces authored by judges of the Indian Supreme Court, Senior Counsels practicing at the Indian bar, and several academics.

About NLSIU:

 The National Law School of India University was established in 1986 to pioneer legal

education reform and anchor the transformation of the Indian legal system through

research and policy interventions. We are dedicated to the realization of core constitutionalvalues through a vital democracy committed to freedom and social justice.

About Samvād: Partners:

 Samvād: Partners is a full-service Indian law firm, offering simple and effective solutions to complex legal and regulatory challenges in India. They are committed to maintaining the highest levels of professional integrity and nurturing lawyers in a work environment that motivates them to achieve and maintain the highest standards.