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CATEGORIES:Energy and Environment Group\, Department of CST
SUMMARY:Digital Participatory Tools for Rural Communities 
 in India to Adapt to Climate Change - Aaditeshwar 
 Seth\, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T130000
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UID:TALK208828AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/208828
DESCRIPTION:\nWith weather patterns becoming erratic\, rural c
 ommunities in India dependent upon agriculture\, l
 ivestock\, and forests for their sustenance face a
 n intersecting crisis of environment\, livelihood\
 , and social justice. Navigating this crisis requi
 res a multi-dimensional approach of sustainable na
 tural resource management\, done in an equitable m
 anner to benefit the most marginalized populations
 \, and with collectivization efforts to improve co
 nsensus building and cooperation in communities. C
 an data and digital technologies play a role here?
  I will describe the complexity of socio-ecologica
 l problems in the context of rural central India a
 nd opportunities for ICT-based interventions that 
 can enable communities to build a shared understan
 ding of changes taking place in their landscape\, 
 use it to plan and demand natural resource managem
 ent works\, and bring changes in their day-to-day 
 resource utilization and regeneration practices. O
 ur work leverages geospatial algorithms\, machine 
 learning on satellite data\, and novel data oraniz
 ation and visualization ideas\, that sit in a tech
 nology stack of building blocks on which further n
 ew innovations can be created. We are also attempt
 ing a co-creation methodology to build this stack 
 through collaboration across disciplines and borde
 rs\, to solve for complexities that are beyond a s
 ingle research group to manage.\n\nBio:\n\nAadites
 hwar Seth is a Professor in the Department of Comp
 uter Science and Engineering at the Indian Institu
 te of Technology Delhi\, and co-founder of the soc
 ial technology enterprise Gram Vaani. He is passio
 nate about building appropriate technologies and p
 articipatory tools that can empower marginalized a
 nd oppressed communities to collectivize and voice
  themselves. Several million people\, and over 150
  organizations worldwide\, have directly touched t
 echnology platforms built by Aaditeshwar’s team at
  Gram Vaani and his students at the ACT4D (Appropr
 iate Computing Technologies for Development) resea
 rch group at IIT Delhi. Many elements of their wor
 k have also been adopted by government departments
  and have influenced the use of technologies for d
 evelopment in the social sector. He is a recipient
  of the ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award for 2022. H
 is book published in 2022\, Technology and (Dis)Em
 powerment: A Call to Technologists\, argues that t
 he primary goal of technologists should be to brin
 g equality and overturn unjust social and economic
  structures through their inventions. He is curren
 tly focused on building the CoRE Stack (Commoning 
 for Resilience and Equality)\, a digital public in
 frastructure for climate change adaptation\, using
  which rural communities can be empowered with too
 ls that enable them to manage their landscapes in 
 a sustainable manner. 
LOCATION:FW11\, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://
 cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZw
 Rm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&amp\;from=addon 
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