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Servelots is a Bangalore-based organization which strives to provide cost effective and user friendly software for organizations working in the social sector. It was founded in 1999 by a group of computer scientists.  
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This is in continuation of the series of discussions about technology and society, with an emphasis on encouraging conversations between programmers, computer scientists, social scientists and practitioners.
  
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Since 2004, Servelots has been engaging in discussions about the relationship between society and technology. The early discussions began following evaluations of the Bhoomi programme which was implemented to digitize land records in Karnataka. The report, supported by IIIT-B, described how the digitization process had dispossessed small and marginal farmers of their lands. The findings of the report sparked a series of small discussions about how technology impacts society and specific communities. These discussions eventually culminated in 2007 with the first workshop on Technology, Governance and Citizenship (TGC), held at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, where researchers from social sciences and Science and Technology Studies (STS) disciplines along with policy-makers, development practitioners and programmers discussed a range of issues concerning e-governance and the relationship between technology and society.
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This workshop follows from our recently concluded research on “communities, technology and participation” where we explored issues concerning opportunities and challenges in digitising public and government data, costs and scale of implementing technologies, reconfiguration of state-citizen relationships through e-governance and research methods and paradigms emerging from societal and technological standpoints. It  is an endeavour to extend some of the discussions we have had with you, to think through and sharpen some of the questions that have emerged in the course of this research along with you, and to expand our thought horizons on issues and questions that are emerging in the broad field of information technologies and governance.
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This TGC conference is a continuation of the series of discussions about technology and society, this time with a greater emphasis on encouraging conversations between programmers, computer scientists, social scientists and practitioners. This TGC is the outcome of research conducted at Servelots on “communities, technology and participation” where we explored issues concerning opportunities and challenges in digitizing public and government data, costs and scale of implementing technologies, reconfiguration of state-citizen relationships through e-governance and research methods and paradigms emerging from societal and technological standpoints. Based on these issues, the themes described further below will be discussed at TGC 2011.
 
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* E-governance - what are the different imaginations and beliefs about development, democracy, participation and state-citizen relationships that guide e-governance interventions.
 
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* Digitization of data – what notions of openness, publicness and transparency are at work in open government data, right to information and other similar initiatives.
 
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* Design, costs and scale of implementing information systems, databases and e-governance and how these affect the implementation of e-governance and information systems programmes.
 
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* Research methods, paradigms and standpoints in the study of technology and society.
 
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* And other related based on audience preferences.
 
  
 
===More details in the [[TGC2011ConceptNote | TGC Concept Note]]===
 
===More details in the [[TGC2011ConceptNote | TGC Concept Note]]===
  
 
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Revision as of 15:37, 15 March 2011

March 18, 19 2011; 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore

This is in continuation of the series of discussions about technology and society, with an emphasis on encouraging conversations between programmers, computer scientists, social scientists and practitioners.

This workshop follows from our recently concluded research on “communities, technology and participation” where we explored issues concerning opportunities and challenges in digitising public and government data, costs and scale of implementing technologies, reconfiguration of state-citizen relationships through e-governance and research methods and paradigms emerging from societal and technological standpoints. It is an endeavour to extend some of the discussions we have had with you, to think through and sharpen some of the questions that have emerged in the course of this research along with you, and to expand our thought horizons on issues and questions that are emerging in the broad field of information technologies and governance.

More details in the TGC Concept Note

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