Technology for Emerging Markets

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Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language: A Case-Study on Gondi

Devansh Mehta, Sebastin Santy, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Alok Sharma, Anurag Shukla, Vishnu Prasad, Venkanna U, Amit Sharma, Kalika Bali

Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) | May 2020

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Facilitating Media Distribution With Monetary Incentives

Devansh Mehta, Alok Sharma, Ramaravind K. Kommiya Mothilal, Chiraag, Anurag Shukla, Vishnu Prasad, Bill Thies, Venkanna U, Colin Scott, Amit Sharma

2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2020

Publication

“Like Shock Absorbers”: Understanding the Human Infrastructures of Technology-Mediated Mental Health Support

Sachin Pendse, Faisal Lalani, Munmun De Choudhury, Amit Sharma, Neha Kumar

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2020

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Publication

When the King turns Jester: A Carnivalesque Analysis of Police Outreach on Social Media in Kerala

Drupa Dinnie Charles, Joyojeet Pal

The 11th International Development Informatics Association conference (IDIA2020) | March 2020

Editor(s): Araba Sey

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Video

Designing Computer Vision Algorithms to Describe the Visual World to People Who Are Blind or Low Vision

March 26, 2020 | Danna Gurari, Ed Cutrell

A common goal in computer vision research is to build machines that can replicate the human vision system (for example, detect an object or scene category, describe an object or scene, or locate an object).…

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The Unbearable Modernity of Mobile Money: Technical Report

Ishita Ghosh, Jacki O'Neill

MSR-TR-2020-6 | March 2020

Published by Microsoft

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Technology and Empowerment | India

Technology and Empowerment (TEM) is a research umbrella at Microsoft Research India. We build and study socio-technical systems that seek to have a meaningful impact on the daily lives of underserved people and communities.

Publication

The Unbearable Modernity of Mobile Money

Ishita Ghosh, Jacki O'Neill

Journal of Computer Supported Co-operative Work | February 2020

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Event

Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020

January 29, 2020 – January 30, 2020 | Lausanne, Switzerland

The 7th annual workshop of the Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative engagement between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich and EPFL, took place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. Each of the twelve project teams…

Podcast

Innovating in India with Dr. Sriram Rajamani

January 22, 2020

Dr. Sriram Rajamani is a Distinguished Scientist and the Managing Director of the Microsoft Research lab in Bangalore. He’s dedicated his career to advancing globally applicable science in the testbed that is India. He is,…

Kahani: Visual Storytelling

Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content

Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali

Keynote: Building Globally Equitable AI

Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language: A Case-Study on Gondi

Facilitating Media Distribution With Monetary Incentives

“Like Shock Absorbers”: Understanding the Human Infrastructures of Technology-Mediated Mental Health Support

When the King turns Jester: A Carnivalesque Analysis of Police Outreach on Social Media in Kerala

Designing Computer Vision Algorithms to Describe the Visual World to People Who Are Blind or Low Vision

The Unbearable Modernity of Mobile Money: Technical Report

Technology and Empowerment | India

The Unbearable Modernity of Mobile Money

Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020

Innovating in India with Dr. Sriram Rajamani

Technology for Emerging Markets

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