Rohini Lakshané
Technologist, public policy researcher, and former journalist. My academic papers and articles are on SSRN. Twitter: @aldebaran14
A preliminary review of sixteen Covid-19 apps released by various government bodies in India as of April 3, 2020
Citizen Matters / April 2020
/ Privacy
We conducted a preliminary analysis to empirically determine whether the 301 whitelisted websites and services would be practically usable and found that only 126 were usable to some degree.
Medianama / January 2020
/ Internet Rights
I don’t gaze out of my window any more simply because there is nothing to look at.
Aarohini / February 2009
/ Musings
Do you want to organise a Wikipedia edit-a-thon around gender, women in STEM, movements and feminist histories of organising or anything else? Here are a list of (5 and more) things to watch out for - including the safety of your participants.
Gender IT / December 2018
/ Wikimedia
Unfortunately, there is no app for reforming a morass in law enforcement or dismantling patriarchy.
Gender IT / May 2016
/ Violence Against Women
To travel far and wide is to...
Aarohini / June 2014
/ Musings
Mobile phones, they said, have changed the nature of business.
EroTICs India/ Gender IT / April 2014
/ Sexual Rights
Not only does the presence of fewer women in FOSS mean that increasing numbers of technologies are conceived, designed and implemented without women in mind, but that women who manage to navigate through convoluted entry barriers frequently find...
Deep Dives / November 2015
/ Women In Stem
This is the third in a series of posts reporting on the day-long “Tangled, Like Wool” meeting held in New Delhi in January 2014.
EroTICs India/ Gender IT / March 2014
/ Sexual Rights
If you live in Nithari, chances are that the children of the labourers who built your new apartment, of the rickshaw puller who ferries you home from the nearest metro station, and of the housemaid who lives in the nearby basti, are quietly learning to...
Tech2 / December 2012
/ News Feature
A look at some online spaces to examine amateur porn in terms of voyeurism, exhibitionism, privacy, consent, gendered violence, and censorship.
EroTICs India / November 2013
/ Violence Against Women
My review of the Savita Bhabhi animated (and crowdfunded) porn movie.
EroTICs India / January 2014
/ Movie Review
In light of the legal, religious, and political contexts in which sexual minorities, activists and people in professions such as pornography and sex work operate, the Internet provides a viable avenue to network, communicate, express, advocate, research,
EroTICs India/ GenderIT / May 2014
/ Feminist Internet