[csaa-forum] SEMINAR: Malavika Jayaram (Harvard Berkman Center): Hacking policy: innovation for survival - Swinburne Thurs 28 May

[Angela Daly]

 Hacking policy: Innovation for survival  *Date:* Thursday, 28 May 2015
*Time:* 12.00 to 1.00pm   *Venue: * Penang room, Level 3 of The Library
Hawthorn Campus  *Cost:*Free
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What drives innovation in emerging economies is the need to survive.
Visiting Harvard University speaker Malavika Jayaram joins the next
Swinburne Law School and Centre for Transformative Innovation seminar
series.
Speaker topic

Survival is driving creative business innovation - the informal solutions
are called "hacks" - to overcome the challenges faced in emerging economies
like India.

In India, power imbalances, systemic injustices, legal bottlenecks and
societal constraints drive some of the most creative "hacks" in business
innovation. These innovations are often informal innovative solutions by
lay people, created as a survival strategy.

Malavika presents her insights and provides examples of how formal systems
are subverted, improved upon, ignored or otherwise channeled for broader
societal gains.

The Indian concept of “jugaad” (a Hindi word that captures gutsy ingenuity
and improvised solutions) is now well known in business schools that study
frugal and lean innovation. The lessons for social entrepreneurship are to
seek and deploy resilient and sustainable development. Malavika will focus
on lesser known policy jugaad and legal hacks, particularly ones that
entertain while problem-solving.
About the speaker

Malavika is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at
Harvard University, working broadly in the areas of privacy, identity, free
speech and internet policy. As a practicing lawyer specialising in
technology law, she has a particular interest in new media and the arts,
and has advised start-ups, innovators, scientists, educational institutions
and artists.

For the last few years, she has been looking at the evolution of big data
and e-governance projects in India – particularly the world’s largest
biometric ID project – and their implications for development, freedom,
choice and informational self-determination. Previously, she practised law
in London and Bangalore: With Allen & Overy in the Communications, Media &
Technology group, as VP and Technology Counsel at Citigroup and as a
partner at Jayaram & Jayaram.

She is the author of the India chapter of the Data Protection & Privacy
volume in the ‘Getting the Deal Done’ series and one of 10 Indian lawyers
in The International Who's Who of Internet e-Commerce & Data Protection
Lawyers directory. In August 2013, she was voted one of India’s leading
lawyers - one of only 8 women featured in the “40 under 45” survey
conducted by Law Business Research, London. She has been a Fellow at the
Centre for Internet and Society, India since 2009, and was also a Global
Internet Policy fellow with the Institute for Technology and Society in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil for 2014-’15.
RSVP by 26 May

Please register your attendance to Tracy Lee on tslee at swin.edu.au by 26 May
for catering purposes.
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