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Hacking policy: Innovation for survival
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<td class=""><span class=""><strong>Date:</strong></span></td>
<td>Thursday, 28 May 2015
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12.00 to 1.00pm
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Penang room, Level 3 of The Library
Hawthorn Campus
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<tr><td class=""><strong>Cost:</strong></td><td>Free </td></tr>
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<p class="">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.</p>
<h2 class="">Speaker topic</h2>
<p class="">Survival is driving creative business innovation - the
informal solutions are called "hacks" - to overcome the challenges faced
in emerging economies like India.</p>
<p class="">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.</p>
<p class="">Malavika presents her insights and provides examples of
how formal systems are subverted, improved upon, ignored or otherwise
channeled for broader societal gains.</p>
<p class="">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.</p>
<h2 class="">About the speaker</h2>
<p class="">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.</p>
<p class="">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.</p>
<p class="">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.</p>
<h2 class="">RSVP by 26 May</h2>
<p class="">Please register your attendance to Tracy Lee on <a href="mailto:tslee@swin.edu.au">tslee@swin.edu.au</a> by 26 May for catering purposes.</p>
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