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Titiksha Vashist

Titiksha Vashist is Co-founder and Lead Researcher at The Pranava Institute. Her work focuses on emerging tech regulation and the socio-political implications of technology in India. She drives research projects at Pranava, focussing on technology, ethics, design, and policy.

Work at a glance

Co- Authored and Launched a manual for practitioners to tackle deceptive design titled, 'Design Beyond Deception' at the Internet Governance Forum 2023- Kyoto, Japan  

Spoke at the UN Asia -Pacific regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF 2023) held in Brisbane, Australia. about The Unboxing Tech Toolkit: The Materiality of a Smartphone in a session titled "Mines, Maps and Minerals: Trace the complex material flows of your smartphone to make more sustainable choice".

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Titiksha was part of the global financial inclusion panel convened by Center for Financial Inclusion for the Financial Inclusion Week 2023.  The panel discussed the tools and policy directions needed in the financial sector to make financial services safe, trusted and deceptive design free. 

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Presented The Unboxing Tech Toolkit on the Materiality of the Smartphone at The Re:Publica Berlin 2023 at the Makerspace convened by Global Innovation Gathering (GIG)

Presented the insights from the Design Beyond Deception project at the Colloquium @ CAIS (Centre for Advanced Internet Studies) 

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