BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b8702abb5379713aed163e7151ef51 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121116 SUMMARY:“The State of Aadhaar 2019: A People’s Perspective" - A talk by Dr Petra Sonderegger, Senior Project Manager at Dalberg Asia and Ms Akanksha Agarwal, Senior Consultant at Dalberg LOCATION:- Rabindranath Tagore 002 (TGR 002)\, FLAME University DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) Nuffield - FLAME Univers ity is pleased to host Dr Petra Sonderegger, Senior Project Manager at Dalb erg Asia and Ms Akanksha Agarwal, Senior Consultant at Dalberg. They  will be giving a talk titled “The State of Aadhaar 2019: A People's Perspective. "\nAbstract:\nThe debate on Aadhaar has often centred on legal, policy and fiscal perspectives. Nation-wide data on the perspectives of those who use Aadhaar in their daily lives has been thin. We believe it is important to i nclude and highlight the residents’ perspective, in particular to understan d what works and what doesn’t, on the ground.\nTo that end, Dalberg, suppor ted by Omidyar Network India, surveyed over 167,000 households across 28 st ates and UTs to uncover people's experiences with and perceptions of Aadhaa r. This has resulted in the largest public primary dataset on national Digi tal ID, anywhere in the world.\nDr Petra Sonderegger and Akanksha Agarwal w ill present a rich condensation of the many findings from the study. Her pr esentation will cover enrolment – who is enrolled and who is not (and why), experience with updates and problems encountered, how widely Aadhaar is us ed, for which services, and how it impacts people’s access to services, and finally, what are people’s perceptions of Aadhaar’s benefits and challenge s. Her presentation will also address some of the current debates in the Aa dhaar discourse today. Finally, she will also introduce the dataset and its potential applications in Aadhaar-related research and beyond.\n \nBio:\nD r Petra Sonderegger, Dalberg Asia\nDr Petra Sonderegger manages research pr ojects for Dalberg Asia. She is currently managing the State of Aadhaar 201 9-2020 project and was a co-author of the 2019 report. Her research focus i s on economic development and technology. She has conducted research on the influence of communications technology on economic geography, on innovatio n systems, as well as specific sectors, such as telecommunications, fintech , and renewable energy.\nPetra holds a PhD from Columbia University, New Yo rk, for which she completed a dissertation on the role of telecommunication s in the development of economic clusters. She also holds an MBA from the U niversity of Bern, Switzerland. Petra was a Columbia Public Policy Consorti um Fellow, a Swiss National Science Foundation Young Scholar, and a senior research associate at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.\nAkank sha Agarwal, Dalberg\nAkanksha Agarwal is a Senior Consultant in Dalberg’s Mumbai office. She has worked on assignments across Digital ID, financial i nclusion, digital payments, healthcare, and education, with a focus on prog ramme and policy evaluations. Her primary focus on State of Aadhaar initiat ive was research design and survey implementation.\nShe is a graduate in Ci vil Engineering from BITS Pilani and her development sector interests lie a t the intersection of policy, technology, and gender.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) Nuffield - FLAME Univ ersity is pleased to host Dr Petra Sonderegger, Senior Project Mana ger at Dalberg Asia and Ms Akanksha Agarwal, Senior Consultant at Dalberg. They  will be giving a talk titled “The State of Aadhaar 2 019: A People's Perspective."

Abstract:

The debate on Aadhaar has often centred on legal, policy and fiscal pers pectives. Nation-wide data on the perspectives of those who use Aadhaar in their daily lives has been thin. We believe it is important to include and highlight the residents’ perspective, in particular to understand what work s and what doesn’t, on the ground.

To that end, Dalberg, supported by Omidyar Network India, surveyed over 167,000 households across 28 states a nd UTs to uncover people's experiences with and perceptions of Aadhaar. Thi s has resulted in the largest public primary dataset on national Digital ID , anywhere in the world.

Dr Petra Sonderegger and Akanksha Agarwal wi ll present a rich condensation of the many findings from the study. Her pre sentation will cover enrolment – who is enrolled and who is not (and why), experience with updates and problems encountered, how widely Aadhaar is use d, for which services, and how it impacts people’s access to services, and finally, what are people’s perceptions of Aadhaar’s benefits and challenges . Her presentation will also address some of the current debates in the Aad haar discourse today. Finally, she will also introduce the dataset and its potential applications in Aadhaar-related research and beyond.

 

< p>Bio:

Dr Petra Sonderegger, Dalberg Asia

Dr Petra Sonderegger manages research projects for Dalberg Asi a. She is currently managing the State of Aadhaar 2019-2020 project and was a co-author of the 2019 report. Her research focus is on economic developm ent and technology. She has conducted research on the influence of communic ations technology on economic geography, on innovation systems, as well as specific sectors, such as telecommunications, fintech, and renewable energy .

Petra holds a PhD from Columbia University, New York, for which she completed a dissertation on the role of telecommunications in the developm ent of economic clusters. She also holds an MBA from the University of Bern , Switzerland. Petra was a Columbia Public Policy Consortium Fellow, a Swis s National Science Foundation Young Scholar, and a senior research associat e at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Akanksha Agarwal, Dalberg

Akanksha Agarwal is a Senior Consultant in Dalberg’s Mumbai office. She has worked on assignments across Digital ID, f inancial inclusion, digital payments, healthcare, and education, with a foc us on programme and policy evaluations. Her primary focus on State of Aadha ar initiative was research design and survey implementation.

She is a graduate in Civil Engineering from BITS Pilani and her development sector interests lie at the intersection of policy, technology, and gender.

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