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JANAKI SRINIVASAN

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore 26/C, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bengaluru Karnataka-560100

Email: janaki.srinivasan@iiitb.ac.in Website: janakisrinivasan.wordpress.com

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Information Management and Systems, School of Information, University of California Berkeley, Fall 2011 Dissertation committee members:

AnnaLee Saxenian, Dean and Professor, School of Information Paul Duguid, Adjunct Full Professor, School of Information Jenna Burrell, Associate Professor, School of Information Isha Ray, Associate Professor, Energy and Resources Group Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology, Int’l Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB), 2004 Thesis committee members:

Balaji Parthasarathy, Professor, IIITB S.Sadagopan, Professor, IIITB Kenneth Keniston, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.Sc. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, 2001

B.Sc. Physics, University of Delhi, 1999

RECENT RESEARCH POSITIONS

Faculty Member, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore January 2015 onwards Fellow, The Slow Science Institute, Berkeley March–December 2014 Mentor: Jean Lave, Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech January 2013–March 2014 Project Title: The Design and Implications of the Unique ID project in India Faculty mentor: Aditya Johri (earlier at Virginia Tech and now at George Mason University) Funded by: NSF Early Career Grant Co-PI, School of Information, UC Berkeley July–December 2012 Project Title: A Work Practice Approach to Understanding Actors in Agricultural Markets: Revisiting the fishermen of Kerala, India Collaborators: Jenna Burrell, UC Berkeley and Richa Kumar, IIT Delhi Funded by: Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, UC Irvine Consultant, Adobe Systems April–July 2012 Project Title: Web Standards Policy in India Mentor: Peter Secor, Adobe Standards Team

March-December 2014

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Research Associate, Centre for Budget Policy Studies, Bangalore July–December 2009 Project Title: The Political Life of Information Systems: Implications for Budget Information Systems PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed Oreglia, Elisa and Janaki Srinivasan. Forthcoming in 2015. “ICT, Intermediaries, and the Transformation of Gendered Power Structures.” MIS Quarterly. Oreglia, Elisa and Janaki Srinivasan. 2015. “Re-embedding Market Information Systems: Thoughts on Design.” Proceedings of the iConference, Newport Beach. Srinivasan, Janaki; Megan Finn and Morgan Ames. 2015. “Beyond Information Determinism to Information Orders: A New Framework for Policy.” Proceedings of the iConference, Newport Beach. Srinivasan, Janaki and Jenna Burrell. 2015. “On the Importance of Price Information to Fishers and to Economists: Revisiting Mobile Phone Use Among Fishers in Kerala.” Information Technologies & International Development Vol. 11 (1). Johri, Aditya and Janaki Srinivasan. 2014. “Aligning with Data: Populating the ‘Unique Identity’ Infrastructure in India.” In ACM Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Baltimore. Finn, Megan; Janaki Srinivasan and Rajesh Veeraraghavan. 2014. “Seeing with Paper: Government documents and Material Participation.” In IEEE Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii. Winner of Best Paper Award in the Digital and Social Media track. Srinivasan, Janaki and Jenna Burrell. 2013. “Revisiting the Fishers of Kerala, India.” In IEEE Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development, Cape Town. Srinivasan, Janaki and Aditya Johri. 2013. “Creating Machine Readable Men: Legitimizing the ʻAadhaarʼ Mega E-Infrastructure Project in India.” In IEEE Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development, Cape Town. Srinivasan, Janaki. 2012. “Looking Beyond Information Provision: The Importance of being a Kiosk Operator in the Sustainable Access In Rural India (SARI) Project, Tamilnadu.” Information Technologies & International Development Vol. 8: 101-114. Srinivasan, Janaki. 2010. “From Telecom Switches to Telecenters: Changes in the “Telecom for Development” Discourse in India (1947-1999).” In IEEE Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development, University of London. Parthasarathy, Balaji and Janaki Srinivasan. 2008. “How the Development of ICTs affects ICTs for Development: Social Contestation in the Shaping of Standards for the Information Age.” Science Technology & Society 13: 279-301. Srinivasan, Janaki. 2007. “The Role of Trustworthiness in Information Kiosk Projects.” In IEEE Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development, Bangalore, 345-352.

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Book Reviews Srinivasan, Janaki. 2015. “Reimagining Terms, Rethinking Expertise.” [Review of the book New Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South by Don Slater]. Information Technologies & International Development, Vol. 11(1). Theses and Reports Srinivasan, Janaki. 2011. The Political Life of Information: 'Information' and the Practice of Governance in India. Doctoral Thesis. University of California, Berkeley. Srinivasan, Janaki. 2010. The Politics of Information Systems: Lessons for the Budget Information System. Monograph published by Centre for Budget Policy Studies, Bangalore. Srinivasan, Janaki. 2005. Research Report on the Gender Impacts of the Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) Project. Submitted to the Research Program on Engendering ICT Policy. Gender Caucus Panel, 2nd World Summit on Information Society, Tunis, November. Srinivasan, Janaki. 2005. “An Analysis of SARI Kiosks in Tamilnadu.” In Balaji Parthasarathy ed., Information and Communication Technologies for Development: A Comparative Analysis of Impacts and Costs from India, Report submitted to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, New Delhi. IIITB. Srinivasan, Janaki. 2004. The Effects of E-Governance Implementation On Women: A Study of the Sustainable Access on Rural India (SARI) Project, Tamilnadu, India. Master’s Thesis. IIITB. PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS

Burrell, Jenna and Janaki Srinivasan. 2014. “Revisiting the Fishermen of Kerala, India.” Talk at the Energy and Resources Group Colloquium, University of California Berkeley, March 5. Srinivasan, Janaki and Rajesh Veeraraghavan. 2013. “Recording Work, Anchoring Politics: The Role of ‘Muster Rolls’ in Public Work Schemes in India.” Paper at the 42nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin Madison, October 20. Finn, Megan; Lilly Irani; Christo Sims and Janaki Srinivasan. 2013. “Information and Communication Technologies, Aspiration and Identity.” Panel at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 9 -12. Srinivasan, Janaki. 2013. “Mobiles and Mobility: The Use of Mobile Phones by Fishers in Kerala, India.” Talk at the Human Computer Interaction Seminar Series, April 26. Virginia Tech. Burrell, Jenna and Janaki Srinivasan. 2012. “A Work Practice Approach to Understanding Actors in Agricultural Markets: Revisiting the Fishermen of Kerala, India.” Talk at the 4th Annual IMTFI Conference for Funded Researchers, University of California Irvine, December 5-6. Duguid, Paul; Megan Finn; Ashwin Mathew and Janaki Srinivasan. 2011. “The Informational State: Paradigm Or Paradox?” Panel at the iConference, University of Washington, Seattle, February 8-11. Burrell, Jenna; Padraig Carmody; Anita Gurumurthy; James Murphy and Janaki Srinivasan. 2010. “How can ICT Research Better Inform and Communicate Theories of Development and Globalization? New Challenges and Promising Directions”

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Panel at the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development, London, December 13-14. Srinivasan, Janaki. 2010. Invited participant at the Indo-UK Roundtable Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Bangalore, January 11 - 13. British High Commission and IIITB. Kuriyan, Renee; Joyojeet Pal; Aishwarya Ratan; Isha Ray and Janaki Srinivasan. 2008. “Information And Communication Technologies and Development.” Panel at the 23rd South Asia Annual Conference, Berkeley, February 14 - 16. Parthasarathy, Balaji and Janaki Srinivasan. 2006. “Innovation and its Social Impacts: The Role of Ethnography in the Evaluation and Assessment of ICTD Projects.” Paper presented at Globelics India 2006- Innovation Systems for Competitiveness & Shared Prosperity in Developing Countries, Trivandrum, October 4. Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) Research Grant Center for Budget Policy Studies Bangalore Dissertation Research Funding UC Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant Fellow at the UC Berkeley Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty

Summer, Fall 2012 Fall 2009 Summer 2010 and 2011 Summer 2010

Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship in New Media, UC Berkeley Summer 2009 UC Berkeley Dean's Normative Time Fellowship Fall 2008, Spring 2010 UC Berkeley Academic Progress Fellowship Spring 2008 UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems Fellowship 2005 - 2007 International House Berkeley Fellowship 2005 - 2006 Funding from Microsoft Research India to study e-agriculture projects in India Summer 2005 World Summit on Information Society-Gender Caucus Research Grant Spring 2005 Funding from Government of India to study e-governance projects in India Summer 2004 TEACHING POSITIONS (all at UC Berkeley)

Lecturer, School of Information Summer 2012 Course: Technology and Poverty (Upper division undergraduate) Graduate Student Instructor, School of Information Spring 2011 Course: Technology and Poverty (Upper division undergraduate) Tutor, School of Information Fall 2010 Course: Qualitative Methods for Information Systems (Graduate) Graduate Student Instructor, International and Area Studies Fall 2007 Course: Classical Theories of Political Economy (Upper division undergraduate) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewed for Information Technology for Development (Taylor and Francis); Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference; Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting; Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS); International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD)