In September 2014, IT for Change and International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, co-organised a Round Table in Bengaluru titled 'Inclusion in the network society – mapping development alternatives, forging research agendas'. The Round Table brought together leading scholars, development practitioners and thinkers, interested in the theoretical and policy aspects of equity, inclusion and participation in the 'ICTs and development' domain.
Day 1, Round 1 : Beyond the buzz – meaning in meme-ing
Andrea Ordonez, Independent Researcher on Public Policy, Ecuador
Nishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society, India
Baohua Zhou, Journalism School, Fudan University, China
Day 1, Round 2 : Collectivity in the space of flows – de-constructing / reconstructing ICTs and Development
Wallace Chigona, Department of Information Systems, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Sonia Randhawa, Centre for Independent Journalism, Malaysia
Eduardo Villanueva, Department of Communications, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Day 1, Round 3 : Knowledge regimes and development stories - whose reality, whose truth?
Biswajit Mohapatra, Department of Political Science, North-Eastern Hill University, India
Cristian Berrio-Zapata, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Tigist Hussen, Women's and Gender Studies Department, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Day 2, Round 4 : Development pathways in network circuits – disruption or assimilation?
Christopher Foster and Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
Dorothea Kleine, ICT4D Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami, IT for Change, India
Day 2, Round 5 : Hypervisible or invisible? - marginal discourses in network logic
Desiree Lewis, Women's and Gender Studies Department, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Nadine Moawad, Lebanon-based activist, Association for Progressive Communications
Roberto Bissio, Third World Institute, Uruguay
Day 2, Round 6 : Techno-power, state and citizen – old anxieties, new expressions
Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India
Tim Davies, World Wide Web Foundation, Switzerland
Anjali K. Mohan, Institute of Information Technology - Bengaluru, India
Day 2, Round 7 : Open and inclusive – working the network
Michael Gurstein, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Canada
Alex Gakuru, Creative Commons , Kenya
Michel Bauwens, Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives, Belgium
Day 3, Round 8 : Governing globality - can democracy rise up to the occasion?
Alison Gillwald, Research ICT Africa, South Africa
Prabir Purkhayastha, Knowledge Commons, India
Norbert Bollow, Just Net Coalition, Switzerland
Parminder Jeet Singh, IT for Change, India
Nikhil Dey, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan, India
