Nishant Shah
Dr. Nishant Shah was the Co-founder and former Director – Research (2009- 2014) of the non-profit, autonomous research and policy think tank Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, that works on questions of openness, access to knowledge, digital activism, and inclusion through South-South collaborations. As a Knowledge Partner, with the Dutch Development Aid Agency, Hivos, (2009-2016) Nishant has initiated and built the Knowledge Programme on ‘Civic Explorations’ that looks at mobilising communities in emerging society towards civic action, intervention, and learning. He now serves as a mentor on the Digital Earth Fellowship thinking through questions of digital futures.
In his commitment towards Open Knowledge and Critical feminist pedagogies, Nishant has worked closely as advisor and steering committee member with the following groups: The Digital Media and Learning Initiative, at the University of California, Irvine, USA; ‘The Network of Centres for Internet & Society’ housed variously at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University, Cambridge USA, and the Humboldt Institute for Internet Governance, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; The ‘Inter Asia Cultural Studies Consortium’ housed at the Song Kong Hae University, Seoul, South Korea; A global distributed online learning initiative for feminist technology studies called FemTechNet; and an affiliate with the Centre for Internet and Human Rights and Tactical Technologies Collective in Berlin, Germany. He also serves as a jury member and advisor to Art Residency collectives like Khoj, New Delhi, India, The Schloss Solitude Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany, and Het Nieuwe Instittuut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Nishant@DAI:
2019 ~ Respondent to the Kitchen in Epen
2015 ~ "did you feel it?" Symposium on Digital Interfaces and their Affect
2014 ~ Respondent to the "Kitchen" in Arnhem
2012 ~ "I heart my computer because all my friends live in it"
2011 ~ Negotiating Equity: Art After Space