NIPFP event: Reimagining Work: AI's Impact on Managers and Gig Workers | 27 December, 03:30 PM

Reimagining Work: AI's Impact on Managers and Gig Workers Seminar By Dr. Vivek Choudhary Speaker profile: Vivek is an Assistant Professor in ITOM, NTU Singapore. He studies behavioral operations problems on service platforms. His research examines various platforms including Last mile delivery, Health Tech, and Insurtech platforms. Vivek employs techniques such as Field Experiments, Machine Learning, and Econometrics in his work. He holds a PhD from INSEAD. Prior to that he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. He is the coordinator for the OM PhD program. His papers have been published in Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. His research has been covered in Harvard Business Review and INSEAD knowledge. He has published several case studies. He serves as the advisor for many startups.ax Date and time: Fri, 27 December, 2024 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM Venue: Conference Hall, R&T Building, NIPFP, New Delhi Description: The future of work is rapidly evolving with the integration of artificial intelligence across various professional domains. This research explores the transformative impact of AI on two critical areas: managerial tasks and gig work. The presentation delves into the intricate dynamics of human-AI collaboration, emphasizing the pivotal role of human behavior in designing and implementing effective collaborative systems. By examining current research and emerging trends, the talk highlights the nuanced interactions between human workers and AI technologies. The first segment critically analyzes how AI is reshaping managerial processes, focusing on decision-making, workflow optimization, and organizational adaptation. The second half shifts attention to the gig economy, investigating how AI technologies are being leveraged to enhance worker performance, productivity, and platform efficiency. Moreover, the discussion will explore the broader policy implications of AI integration, addressing potential challenges, and ethical considerations in an increasingly AI-driven workplace. For details: Please contact aakanksha.shrawan@nipfp.org.in Details on NIPFP site If you do not want to receive these updates in future, please click here to unsubscribe

New Book "Demystifying The Economics of Technology: Perspectives on Development with Reflections on India" by AS Ray

Demystifying The Economics of Technology: Perspectives on Development with Reflections on India 

by Amit Shovon Ray; Orient BlackSwan, 2025, Price 1150, ISBN: 9789383166404
About the Book: Technology has long been recognized to be crucially important for economic growth and prosperity of societies. The role of technology in driving the world economy has magnified manifolds over the last few decades, with the emergence of a new economic, institutional, and technological architecture steering us towards a truly knowledge driven economy and society. The concept of technology has attracted the scholarly attention of economists for over a century, mainly exploring what constitutes technological change, and its consequences for economic development. This book Demystifying the Economics of Technology: Perspectives on Development with Reflections from India is an attempt to introduce this extensive scholarly (and technical) literature on the economics of technology to interested readers. The book interprets how economists conceptualize technology through multiple layers of definitions and concepts. It also explores perspectives on technology through the writings of the classical economic thinkers as well as the emergence of technology in mainstream economic theory. Economic models of technology creation, technology diffusion and policy choices have all been explained at length. The book will address two popularly debated issues surrounding the economics of technology, namely the debate on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and the role of public funded research. Finally, it will focus on the expanding literature locating technology in a discourse on economic development, with reflections from India's experience with technology. The book will be of interest to economists and non-economists – students, teachers, researchers, policymakers, journalists, engineers, scientists, technologists and corporate managers.
About the Author: Amit Shovon Ray, Professor of Economics at the Centre for International Trade & Development at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), is a development economist specializing in global economic issues like technology, IPR, trade and health. He was educated at Presidency College (Kolkata) and at Oxford University from where he received his DPhil in Economics in 1988. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (UK) in 2006. He has published several articles in reputed international journals and a few monographs. He served as Director, Centre for Development Studies (Trivandrum) and has been a consultant to The World Bank (Washington DC) and India's Planning Commission.

JNU CSSEIP Webinar "Marginalised Women and their Contributions to Environment" | 14 Dec

Jawaharlal Nehru University          

Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy / School of Social Sciences 

Invites You to Webinar on "Marginalised Women and their Contribution to Environment"

This seminar will focus on the significant contributions of marginalized women to sustainability and ecological well-being.

Event Details:

🗓 Date: 14 Dec 2024

⏰ Time: 11::00AM -1:00PM

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UNESCO has mapped 4,500 species thanks to its pioneering eDNA programme

PRESS RELEASE   UNESCO has mapped 4,500 species thanks to its pioneering eDNA programme   Paris, 9 December 2024 – UNESCO's groundbreaking environmental DNA programme  has mapped nearly 4,500 marine species across 21 World Heritage sites around the world, providing new key data and a revolutionary method for stronger ocean protection in an era of rapid climate disruption. PRESS KIT [click here] including full report, findings and images from the sampling expeditions "This UNESCO programme revolutionizes the way we observe and monitor marine life. At a time when the degradation of biodiversity is reaching an alarming pace, it provides new opportunities to better understand and protect critical ecosystems in the 18,000 protected marine areas around the world. In accordance with its Recommendation on Open Science, UNESCO makes this technology freely accessible and calls on its Member States to support the scientific community for its large-scale use", declared Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General. Climate disruption, including ocean warming, is forcing marine species away from their natural habitats and creating an urgent need to better understand and monitor their distribution. UNESCO has developed a new standardized eDNA sampling method to map ocean life. Over the course of three years, marine experts and local scientists took 500 samples from 21 sites protected by UNESCO under the World Heritage Convention, detecting the presence of nearly 4,500 marine species – an impressive result that would previously have taken many years of survey work and cost millions of dollars. Nearly half of the identified species were fish, and also include 86 shark and ray species, 28 mammal species, and 3 turtle species. Among the findings were 120 species listed as vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered on the IUCN Red List. The study also determined that many of these species will soon be confronted with temperatures exceeding their known tolerance limits. Based on the warmest future climate scenario, up to 100% of fish species in the tropical and subtropical sites studied would exceed their current thermal limits and be potentially endangered, while 10-50% of fish species in temperate oceans would exceed their current thermal limits. A blueprint for marine biodiversity monitoring UNESCO's eDNA programme marks the first standardised application of eDNA sampling to monitor the status of marine species among global biodiversity hotspots. With a single 1.5-liter water sample, eDNA techniques can reveal genetic traces of approximately 100 marine species on average. Compared to other existing technologies, it is incredibly affordable, non-invasive and fast – reducing data-collection times from years to just months. This method is also extremely easy to implement, allowing local communities to participate in advancing knowledge alongside scientists. More than 250 schoolchildren, some as young as six years old, participated in sampling expeditions led by UNESCO. The results demonstrate the power of this method as a transformative tool for ocean conservation. All data from the eDNA initiative is systematically uploaded to UNESCO's Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS), a global open-access platform that ensures the information is freely available, comparable, and interoperable for researchers and decision-makers worldwide. An essential tool to achieve climate and biodiversity targets UNESCO's initiative is a vital step toward achieving the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework's "30x30" goal of protecting 30% of the world's terrestrial, inland water, and coastal and marine areas by 2030. By combining cutting-edge science with citizen participation, UNESCO's technology provides a scalable and accessible model that can be applied to the more than 18,000 existing marine protected areas – and new ones that will be created – to address the urgent challenges facing the ocean today. The data collected will support science-based decision-making, helping Member States better plan and manage marine protected areas to adapt to changing climates.   Learn more Environmental DNA Expeditions in UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites Brochure: UNESCO's Ocean Programs   Press contact François Wibaux, f.wibaux@unesco.org, +33 1 45 68 07 46   UNESCO Newsroom All our press releases   Social media

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CfPs: Annual Conference on A Song Called Teaching" | 10-11 April 2025

Annual Conference on "A Song Called Teaching"

10-11 April 2025

Venue: Centre for Writing & Communication (CWC) at Ashoka University, Sonepat 

Call for Papers

• Send your abstract (300 words) & a bio-note (200 words) to cwc@ashoka.edu.in with the subject line 'Conference abstract'.
• Last date to submit abstracts: 6th January 2025

The works of Paulo Friere, Henry Giroux, bell hooks, Gail Omvedt, and Sharmila Rege have been foundational in thinking about the discourse and practice of teaching and learning in higher education. These thinkers have been prominent in shaping our understanding and practice of critical and engaged pedagogy. The driving emphasis of such works is to refashion and nurture the classroom as a transformative force capable of connecting the classroom with the outside – the socio-political, cultural, and ideological. The rethinking of the classroom as a democratic and inclusive space demands a reflexive approach to teaching and learning, mindful of the location, space and place of theories, and the positionality of teachers and learners.
We borrow the title for this year's conference from the book A Song Called Teaching: Ebbs & Flows of Experiential and Emphatic Pedagogies (2019, Delhi: Aakar Books), edited by Honey Oberoi Vahili. This is a collection of essays written by the teachers at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD) who share their observations, questions, dilemmas, joys and frustrations and offer their insights on the need for higher education to be reflective, critical, and empathetic. We read their perspectives alongside our experiences of working as teachers at Ashoka University.
Our objective is to build on the conversations on teaching and learning in Indian universities to help further a much-needed dialogue across different stakeholders in academia. Teaching at the university level in India has often prioritised academic qualifications, such as a PhD degree or the clearance of the National Eligibility Test (NET), without giving much attention to training in pedagogy. Presently, the focus on teacher training and development is overwhelmingly towards school education. While education, as a discipline and a professional field, is well-established in India, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and research programmes in education prepare teachers for school teaching with limited attention to university-level pedagogy.
Our conference is especially timely for several reasons. The landscape of higher education in India is undergoing rapid and tremendous changes. While some of these are policy-level changes like the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020; others involve emerging scenarios like the shift to/encouragement of online education and the increasing use of AI. In the face of these changes, what is the role and identity of a teacher in Indian universities? How do the teachers in a university adapt and teach? What have been the contributions of radical interventions such as queer, feminist, Dalit, Marxist, and decolonial pedagogies? What part do writing centres play in this scenario? Grappling with these questions is not simply about the "what" and "how" of teaching, pedagogy and learning but involves addressing the very basis of what it means to be a teacher in institutions of higher education in India. 
The Centre for Writing & Communication (CWC) at Ashoka University is an academic centre which undertakes teaching and research on the processes of reading, writing and communication at the university level and the relationship between these processes and broader questions of higher education in India. Our one-on-one consultations, workshops, and courses help the students with cross and inter-disciplinary reading/writing/communication needs, enabling them to critically approach the academic work required of them at the university. Additionally, our conferences and research projects examine questions of pedagogy, which in turn enriches our practice at the centre.
For our Annual Conference in 2025, we invite submissions in the form of paper or poster presentations, visual or any other format. We welcome case studies, reflections, and empirical studies on the topics given below, relevant to the conference theme of teachers and teaching in university/higher education in the Indian context. This list is indicative and not exhaustive:

• What does teaching practice mean today?  
• Writing Centres as Pedagogical Spaces  
• Teachers' Roles, Identities and Positionality 
• Researcher as Teacher 
• Reflexive Classroom Teaching  
• Teaching in Indian languages, including English  
• Ethics and Emotions in Teaching  
• Components of Teaching  
• Artificial Intelligence and Online Teaching  
• Teaching for Practical Purposes: Industry & Professional 
• Mentoring and Teaching  
• Discipline-specific Pedagogical Practices  
• Scope of Radical Pedagogy: Theory and Practice  
• Content knowledge vs Pedagogical Knowledge  
• Teaching in STEM, Medicine  
• Teacher-Learner Communication  
• Teaching Training/Education 
• How do we develop/grow as a teacher? 
• Who is a good teacher?   

New Issue Online | Journal of Scientometric Research, 2024, 13(3)

Journal of Scientometric Research

Vol 13, Issue 3, 2024

https://www.jscires.org/v13/i3

Research Articles

A Bibliometric Analysis of Inverse Optimization Research: Trends, Impact, and Key Contributions | Saeide Bigdellou, Ali Ghaemmaghami, Shirin Aslani and Mohammad Modarres Yazdi
ChatGPT Research: Insights from Early Studies Using Network Scientometric Approach | Hiran H. Lathabai, Thara Prabhakaran and Raghu Raman
Bibliographic Coupling and Conceptual Similarity: Are the Bibliographically Coupled Papers also Conceptually Similar? | Abhirup Nandy, Aakash Singh, Vedika Gupta and Vivek Kumar Singh
Exploring the Publication Metadata Fields in Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: Possibilities and Ease of doing Scientometric Analysis | Prashasti Singh, Vivek Kumar Singh and Anurag Kanaujia
A Systematic Review of Reverse Logistics Research: Bibliometric Study of the Years 2013-2023 | Glenda Marisa Chávez Gallegos, Marco Alberto Valenzo-Jiménez, Gabino Garcia Tapia, Saúl Alfonso Esparza Rodríguez, Carlos Francisco Ortiz Paniagua and H. Steve Leslie
AMBV: An Optimized Generic Viterbi Algorithm for Bayesian Networks | Pierre-Samuel Gréau-Hamard, Moïse Djoko-Kouam and Yves Louët
Recycled Concrete Aggregates Utilization in Construction: Publications Trends, Bibliometric Analysis, and Literature Review (2011-2021) | Abubakar Sadiq Mahmoud and Ahmed Shaban Omar
Triple Helix Relations in Local and International Scientific Collaborations: A Case Study of Thailand, the US and China | Bunyakiat Petri and Daniel Breslau
Unveiling the Evolution of Big Data Analytics Capability: A Comprehensive Analysis | Sunil Pathak, Venkataraghavan Krishnaswamy and Mayank Sharma
Co-Authorship Networks and Impact on Emotional Education Research | Miguel Ángel Albor Licona, John Albert Cárdenas Cuadros and Esneire Angélica Zapata Arroyave
Evolutionary Insights in Ontology: A Bibliometric Analysis of Cognitive Computing Applications in Cancer Research | Samuel-Soma Mofoluwa Ajibade, Gloria Nnadwa Alhassan, Muhammed Basheer Jasser, Ghassan Saleh ALDharhani and Ismail Ahmed Al-Qasem Al-Hadi
A Bibliometric and Context Analysis of the Impact of ESG Disclosure on Firm Value | Yimei Huang, Nazimah Hussin, Mohammad Ali Tareq and Renxiang He
Strategic Leadership and Organizational Innovation: Bibliometric Overview (1993-2022) | Ida Ayu Kartika Maharani, Alfina Alfina and Nurul Indawati
Motivating Factors and Challenges of Faculty Members in a State University in the Philippines in Publishing Journal Articles | Cheryll Casiwan Launio, Freda Kate Damoslog Samuel, Alladin Banez, Matyline Camfili Talastas, Leonila Sito and Kristine Baniqued Dela Cruz
Contextual Perspective on Climate-Related Shocks, Coping Strategies and Household Consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Trends and Insights | Fabrice Nkurunziza, Richard Kabanda and Patrick McSharry
Exploring Trends and Research Hotspots in the Impact of Social Media on College Students: A Bibliometric Analysis | Niaona Hu, Kim Lam Soh and Salimah Japa
Antitrust Jurisprudence of Consumer Choice in Digital Platform Markets: A Comprehensive Review of Literature | Anshuman Sahoo and Arindam Basu
Geographic Indications, Sustainability and Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Analysis | Luís Oscar Silva Martins, Vitória Ribeiro Vieira de Oliveira, Fábio André Lora, Igor Dantas Fraga, Cleiton Braga Saldanha, Daliane Teixeira Silva, Maria Gabriella Alves Pereira and Marcelo Santana Silva

Book Reviews

Documenting the Tribal and Indigenous Languages of India | Journal of Scientometric Research, 13(3):935
Evolutionary Perspectives of the Gazette of India | Journal of Scientometric Research, 13(3):937
Understanding Nuances of the Archives in India | Journal of Scientometric Research, 13(3):939

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The Journal is a Gold Open Access journal since January 1, 2024.

New Submission: https://www.jscires.com/index.php/submissions/login

Launch of New Issue - Journal of Data Science, Informetrics, and Citation Studies: https://jcitation.org/index.php/jdscics/issue/current

ISID-CUTS Panel Discussion on World Competition Day 2024| 5th December, 14:30 IST

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The Background   World Competition Day held annually on 5th December, to commemorate the day on which the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices (the UN Set) – so far the only multilaterally agreed international instrument on competition policy. The theme of this year's World Competition Day is, 'Competition Policy and Inequality'.   With economic inequality on the rise globally, the role of competition policy is being explored. Historically, competition law emphasised market efficiency over equity. However, contemporary perspectives argue that unchecked market consolidation, in the guise of 'efficiency' may facilitate wealth concentration, limiting access to market benefits for lower-income and underrepresented groups.   The session aims to explore how competition policy can help address inequality by deliberating its implementation in critical sectors like manufacturing, agriculture, small businesses, consumers, employment and so on.   The session will engage with relevant questions such as: (i)      How growing economic concentration and market power need to be dealt with? How entry barriers to small businesses can be removed? (ii)     How socio-economic factors can be part of competition analysis? (iii)   How bottlenecks in the global food supply chains could be tackled to benefit small farmers and consumers?   The panel discussions are expected to address some of these questions and aim to outline practical competition policy reforms for a fairer and more inclusive economy.

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Press conference - UNESCO unveils results of its groundbreaking mapping of marine species using environmental DNA

PRESS CONFERENCE    UNESCO unveils results of its groundbreaking mapping of marine species using environmental DNA   UNESCO invites you to a press conference on 9 December to unveil the results of its pioneering environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling initiative conducted across 21 World Heritage marine sites in 19 countries. Over three years, this pilot programme engaged hundreds of scientists and local schoolchildren. It represents a milestone in biodiversity monitoring and marine conservation amidst a rapidly climate disruption.   What? Press Conference presenting results of eDNA testing across marine World Heritage Sites When? Monday 09 December 2024, 15:00 CET Where? In-person at UNESCO Headquarters and online Accreditation: Please register here.   Speakers will include: Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General Fanny Douvere, Head of World Heritage Marine Programme, UNESCO Ward Appeltans, Head of Ocean Biodiversity Information System, UNESCO Pedro Ramos, Superintendent, Everglades National Park World Heritage site, United States of America Anne Laure Léger, General Representative of Flanders to UNESCO, OECD and the Council of Europe, funder of the programme   Climate disruption, including ocean warming, is forcing marine species away from their natural habitats and creating an urgent need to better understand and map their distribution. Using eDNA sampling to identify life in the ocean is a promising technology to monitor biodiversity at higher scale and with faster results to keep pace with our rapidly changing environment.   Over the past three years, UNESCO has honed and harnessed eDNA sampling methods in a way that is that is efficient, non-invasive to local wildlife, affordable and engages local communities especially youth. After deployment across 21 World Heritage marine sites – representing some of the world's richest biodiversity hotspots – this pilot programme has successfully shown how eDNA sampling can help collect the data we need for better informed decision-making, necessary to tackle the joint climate and biodiversity crises.   This press conference will unveil the results of this cutting-edge initiative and its practical applications to better monitor biodiversity. UNESCO experts and site managers will show how eDNA sampling could now be scaled up and rolled out across the 18,000 marine protected areas worldwide, and become a vital tool to achieve the marine conservation targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: protecting 30% of the world's ocean by 2030.   Learn more Environmental DNA Expeditions in UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites Brochure: UNESCO's Ocean Programs   Press contact François Wibaux, f.wibaux@unesco.org, +33 1 45 68 07 46   UNESCO Newsroom All our press releases   Social media

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AANCEBJU Annual Seminar on Sustainable Ways: All Pervasive Opportunities for a Bright Future | Saturday, 21st December, at Scope Convention Centre

Respected Members,

We have set sail for ANNUAL SEMINAR 2024. This gala event comprises eloquent speakers with their coherent speeches along with a gala lunch n high tea. All are cordially invited to the program. Please register and join us😊🙏

1.TOPIC: Sustainable Ways: All Pervasive Opportunities for a Bright Future.

2.TOPICS INCLUDED:

a. Healthcare, Lifestyle Aspects, Real Estate and Infra.
b. Agriculture, Green Energy, Waste Management, Pollution Control.

3.DATE:  Saturday, 21st December 2024.

4.TIME: 9:30am to 4:30pm (full day seminar).

5.VENUE: Mirza Ghalib Auditorium, Scope Convention Centre, New Delhi.

6. REGISTRATION CHARGES: Rs. 300 (per head). Please pay by UPI to the Alumni Association, or Bank Transfer. Also, please share the screenshot by Email/ WhatsApp.

7.LAST DATE OF REGISTRATION: 18th December 2024.

8.REPORTING TIME AT VENUE: 9:30 am to 10:30 am sharp.

**NB -- Speakers and guests are exempted from the registration fees.
**NB-- Alumni Members who will collect advertisements with money for the seminar are exempted from the registration fees.

Regards,
Team Seminar.

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