
Digital Economy and
Tech Geopolitics
The Pranava Institute works across multiple impact areas in technology and its engagements with humans, social systems and politics. Explore our research work below.
Explore Our Work

Ethics of AI in the Public Sector
This project seeks to create an ethical framework for public deployment of Generative AI which will translate ethical principles and use existing guidelines into a practical, actionable and accessible tool which key decision-makers in government and companies can use as an actionable ethical fitness check to mitigate potential harms before deployment.

Deepening Australia- India Cooperation on Critical Minerals
Critical Minerals have rising importance as the building blocks for the digital age and technologies which power the green transition. This project unpacks critical minerals policy in Australia and India to take a 360-degree view spanning geopolitics and security, economics and markets, and climate and sustainability to provide policy recommendations for stakeholders across the bilateral and multilateral relationship.​
Conducted as part of the Maitri Fellowship of the Center for Australia-India Relations, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, this project is located at the intersection of tech, geopolitics and practitioner-focussed policymaking.

India Semiconductor Report : State of Play
'India Semiconductor Report: State of Play' report attempts to provide an analytical overview of the current state of India’s semiconductor industry. It examines the strategic drivers underpinning the Government of India’s semiconductor push, outlines key industrial policy interventions and offers a detailed assessment of projects across the semiconductor value chain across fabrication, packaging, ancillaries, design capabilities and skilled workforce availability. By systematically mapping key projects, investment patterns, and implementation timelines, the report identifies which segments of the semiconductor value chain are gaining traction, where progress is uneven, and where structural bottlenecks persist.
This integrated “state of play” analysis offers a granular understanding of the rapid but uneven growth of India’s semiconductor ecosystem.