India's medical miracle: the world's largest ambulance service
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India celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI), the world's largest ambulance service that is saving the lives of the poorest Indian residents free of charge. Stanford Medicine experts, who trained responders in emergency medical procedures, joined EMRI to celebrate the program's success. Read More
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When Law Matters: the Everyday Life of the Indian Constitution
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This event is sponsored by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Center for South Asia.
When the Indian Constitution was adopted in 1950, its egalitarian and inclusive spirit was widely seen as ahead of its time and out of sync with India’s many entrenched inequalities. Due to the efforts of its main author, the renowned Dalit leader B.R. Ambedkar, the Constitution contained multiple safeguards of cultural, religious and political rights as well as the most ambitious affirmative action program in the world. Over the following six decades, the Constitution shaped Indian society in numerous ways but its most profound impact was in framing public discourse and the way citizens and communities present their claims and demands in public. Despite deep and often violent social and political conflicts, the Constitution and many of its key provisions – religious tolerance, uplift of the historically disadvantaged, recognition of the rights of distinct communities, unity of the nation – are invoked and claimed by all sides in these conflicts. At the same time, the Supreme Court of India has emerged as an active and activist court that is widely respected as the guardian of the Constitution.
In this seminar, two distinguished speakers will highlight and analyze why and how the Indian Constitution acquired this key role in the nation’s life.
Professor Rajeev Bhargava is a renowned political theorist who has published seminal studies of Indian secularism and law, and the Director of the well known Center for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi.
Dr. Rohit De is a legal scholar and Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. His forthcoming book is entitled Litigious Citizens, Constitutional Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic.
The two presentations will be followed by shorter commentaries from:
Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at FSI and Director of CDDRL
Erik Jensen, Professor at the Stanford School of Law
Dr. Vivek Srinivasan, Program Manager for CDDRL's Program on Liberation Technology
Rajeev Bhargava
Director, Center for the Study of Developing Societies
Director, Center for the Study of Developing Societies
Rohit De
Assistant Professor of History at Yale University
Assistant Professor of History at Yale University
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Corporate Affiliates Program welcomes 2015-16 fellows
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As the new academic year gets underway, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center’s Corporate Affiliates Program is excited to welcome its new class of fellows to Stanford University:
- Yuta Aikawa, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, Japan
- Wataru Fukuda, Shizuoka Prefectural Government
- Huang (Catherine) Huang, Beijing Shanghe Shiji Investment Company
- Avni Jethwa, Reliance Life Sciences
- Satoshi Koyanagi, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, Japan
- An Ma, PetroChina
- Huaxiang Ma, Peking University
- Yuichiro Muramatsu, Mitsubishi Electric
- Tsuzuri Sakamaki, Ministry of Finance, Japan
- Tsuneo Sasai, The Asahi Shimbun
- Ravishankar Shivani, Reliance Life Sciences
- Aki Takahashi, Nissoken
- Mariko Takeuchi, Sumitomo Corporation
- Hideaki Tamori, The Asahi Shimbun
- Ryo Washizaki, Japan Patent Office
- Hung-Jen (Fred) Yang, MissionCare
During their stay at Stanford University, the fellows will audit classes, work on English skills, and conduct individual research projects; at the end of the year they will make a formal presentation on the findings from their research. During their stay at the center, they will have the opportunity to consult with Shorenstein APARC's scholars and attend events featuring visiting experts from around the world. The fellows will also participate in special events and site visits to gain a firsthand understanding of business, society and culture in the United States.
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Global Governance: What to Expect from the G20
Montek Singh Ahluwalia is an economist who trained at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He spent several years at the World Bank before returning to India to serve as the Economic Advisor to the Finance Minister. The Government of India then appointed him to several senior positions, including Secretary of Commerce and Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance. In 1998, he was appointed as a Member of the Planning Commission and Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. In 2001, he became the Director of Independent Evaluation Office at the International Monetary Fund, resigning this position in 2004 to become the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission.
He has written widely about India and the world economy, co-authoring Redistribution with Growth: An Approach to Policy, and editing Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy: Issues for Reforming the Global Financial Architecture with Y.V. Reddy and S.S. Tarapore.
The Payne Distinguished Lectureship is named for Frank and Arthur Payne, brothers who gained an appreciation for global problems through their international business operations. This lectureship, hosted by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, brings speakers with an international reputation for leadership and visionary thinking to Stanford to deliver a major public lecture.
This event is carried out in partnership with the Stanford Center for International Development (SCID).
A public reception will follow the lecture.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission 2004-2014, Government of India
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission 2004-2014, Government of India
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Journalism from below in the Digital Age with P. Sainath
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The People's Archive of Rural India combines text, audio, video, and photographs to present what is both a living journal and a growing online archive. It's a unique and ambitious movement to document the diversity of rural India, home to 833 million people speaking 780 languages. PARI, http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/, is aimed at recording the everyday lives of everyday people, to document the stories from what Sainath has called the “continent within a sub-continent”.
The site was launched in December 2014. The website is not-for-profit, free to view and all the contributors – journalists, writers, film-makers, editors, translators, engineers, lawyers and accountants – are volunteers. The website hopes to grow by public participation.
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Over a career spanning 34 years, Sainath has won over 40 awards for his reporting, including the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award and the first Amnesty International’s Global Human Rights Journalism Prize in 2000. His book, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, has remained a non-fiction bestseller for decades and was declared a Penguin Classic in 2012. He is currently teaching two courses in the Program for South Asian Studies at Princeton University.
The People's Archive of Rural India, http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/ , combines text, audio, video, and photographs to present a living journal and a growing online archive. It's a unique and ambitious movement to record everyday lives and to document the diversity of rural India, home to over a billion people speaking 780 languages. Launched in December 2014, the website is not-for-profit and free to view. All the contributors – journalists, writers, film-makers, editors, translators, engineers, lawyers and accountants – are volunteers. The website hopes to grow by public participation.
More on the archive:
The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/india-villages-digital-archive-rural-sainath/390630/
The event is organized by Asha at Stanford and a similar event will be organized at UC Berkeley by the School of Information.
7:00 PM | Tuesday, May 5, 2015
"The Great Room"
Donald Kennedy Commons
Escondido Village
Comstock Circle, Stanford University
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6:30 PM | Wednesday, May 6, 2015
210 South Hall
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UC Berkeley
Free and open to the public.
7:00 PM | Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Donald Kennedy Commons
Escondido Village
Comstock Circle, Stanford University
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Design Thinking, Social Change and Governance Revolution in India
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Tamil Nadu is among the few states in India that provides basic public services such as schools, water, electricity, primary healthcare and transport almost universally. These services function remarkably well, making a significant difference to the lives of people. In many cases, the state has achieved better outcomes than other states of India, but with comparable budgets.
In this talk, Vivek will argue that the effectiveness of Tamil Nadu's administration can be linked to underlying processes akin to 'human centred design' that has been popularized by the Design school at Stanford, among others. This form of design thinking is slowly but surely making its way to other parts of India leading to a small revolution in governance in India today.
The talk will be based on his recently published book, Delivering Public Services Effectively: Tamil Nadu & Beyond.
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In working with these campaigns, he realized the widespread disparities in the provision of basic public services in India. This led him to examine how Tamil Nadu, a southern Indian state, developed extensive commitment to providing such services to all its residents in his doctoral dissertation. Oxford University Press published Srinivasan’s book based on the dissertation entitled, "Delivering services effectively: Tamil Nadu and Beyond" in 2014.
As a full-time activist, he also experimented with various IT platforms to make the campaigns effective. This interest brought him to the Liberation Technology Program at Stanford where Srinivasan is currently leading a research project entitled "Combating corruption with mobile phones".
Vivek Srinivasan
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I joined the Liberation Technology Program as the Manager in February 2011 after completing my Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Prior to this, I worked with campaigns on various socio-economic rights in India, including the right to food, education and the right to information. Based on these experiences I have written (and co-authored) extensively on issues surrounding the right to food, including Notes from the right to food campaign: people's movement for the right to food (2003), Rights based approach and human development: An introduction (2008), Gender and the right to food: A critical re-examination (2006), Food Policy and Social Movements: Reflections on the Right to Food Campaign in India (2007).
In working with these campaigns, I realised the widespread disparities in the provision of basic public services in India. This led me examine how Tamil Nadu, a southern Indian state, developed extensive commitment to providing such services to all its residents in my doctoral dissertation. Oxford University Press published my book based on the dissertation entitled, "Delivering services effectively: Tamil Nadu and Beyond" in 2014.
As a full-time activist, I also experimented with various IT platforms to make the campaigns effective. This interest brought me to the Liberation Technology Program at Stanford. I am currently leading a research project entitled "Combating corruption with mobile phones".
Visiting Scholar
Former Academic Research & Program Manager, Liberation Technology
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