Day One – Monday, 11 October 2021, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm (CEST) 1:30 pm -5:30 pm (IST)
Introduction – Khaliq Parkar, CESSMA, Université de Paris & Stéphanie Tawa Lama, CNRS-CSH
Session I (Verticality / Horizontality)
Discussant: Marie-Helene Zerah, IRD-CESSMA & CPR
Global communication players and their role in urban governance in India: an exploratory research - Christine Ithurbide, CNRS-Passages
The life and death of municipal bodies on social media - Persis Taraporevala, King’s College
Apps, Satellites & Portals: Civic Technologies of Governance in Bhubaneswar - Khaliq Parkar
Day Two – Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm (CEST) 1:30 pm -5:30 pm (IST)
Session II (Representation / Participation)
Discussant: Aasim Khan, IIIT-Delhi & CSH
The Language of Smart Cities - Uttara Purandare, IIT-Bombay & Monash University
Participation as surveillance in the low tech and high tech practices of the Aam Aadmi Party - Stephanie Tawa Lama
Session III (Politicization / Depoliticization)
Discussant: Loraine Kennedy, CNRS-CEIAS
The Politics of Police and Discipline in the City: The Role of Digital Technologies in Urban Housing in Indian Small and Medium cities - Bhuvaneswari Raman, Jindal Global University and Eric Denis, CNRS- Géographie-Cités lab
Mapping the covid-19 containment zones in Indian cities: the public health crisis won’t be digitalized - Bertrand Lefebvre, EHESP-IFP