Very insightful. Thanks for sharing Udhay. On Wed, 24 May 2023, 16:47 Udhay Shankar N via Silklist, < [email protected]> wrote:
> > TIL that Cory Doctorow (who's on this list, as longtime members will > recall) published a paper in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, with > some NLSIU collaborators. Since we have lots of people interested in tech > policy (as well as lots of lawyers, including NLSIU grads, as well as Cory > himself) on this list, I thought it would be interesting to see what the > folks here think. > > Udhay > > <q> > > I was contacted by the Indian Journal of Law and Technology to see whether > I could write something on similar lines, focused on the situation in > India. Well, it took two years, but we've finally published it: "Securing > Privacy Without Monopoly In India: Juxtaposing Interoperability With Indian > Data Protection": > > > https://www.ijlt.in/post/securing-privacy-without-monopoly-in-india-juxtaposing-interoperability-with-indian-data-protection > > The Indian case for interop incorporates the US and EU case, but with some > fascinating wrinkles. First, there are the broad benefits of allowing > technology adaptation by people who are often left out of the frame when > tools and systems are designed. As the saying goes, "nothing about us > without us" – the users of technology know more about their needs than any > designer can hope to understand. That's doubly true when designers are > wealthy geeks in Silicon Valley and the users are poor people in the global > south. > > India, of course, has its own highly advanced domestic tech sector, who > could be a source of extensive expertise in adapting technologies from US > and other offshore tech giants for local needs. India also has a complex > and highly contested privacy regime, which is in extreme flux between high > court decisions, regulatory interventions, and legislation, both passed and > pending. > > Finally, there's India's long tradition of ingenious technological > adaptations, locally called jugaad, roughly equivalent to the English "mend > and make do." While every culture has its own way of celebrating clever > hacks, this kind of ingenuity is elevated to an art form in the global > south: think of jua kali (Swahili), gambiarra (Brazilian Portuguese) and > bricolage (France and its former colonies). > > It took a long time to get this out, but I'm really happy with it, and I'm > extremely grateful to my brilliant and hardworking research assistants from > National Law School of India University: Dhruv Jain, Kshitij Goyal and > Sarthak Wadhwa. > > </q> > > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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