Takshashila Blue Paper - Governing Tech Platforms in India

High Tech Geopolitics
Written By Anupam Manur

The Takshashila Institution hosted a roundtable on 24 January 2020 to discuss policy solutions to some of the unique issues in platform marketplaces. Finding the balance between mitigating the harm caused by platforms while ensuring that these businesses continue to provide an enormous amount of social surplus is of paramount importance.

This Blue Paper collates and presents the comments, remarks, and analyses made during the Roundtable by the participants.

The Roundtable was chaired by Anupam Manur and Utkarsh Narain.

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Anupam Manur
Anupam Manur

Anupam Manur is an Assistant Professor at the Takshashila Institution. He was previously working as a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore, after completing his Masters in International Business (Economics) from Lancaster University.

Prateek Waghre
Prateek Waghre

Prateek is the Policy Director at the Internet Freedom Foundation. His research interests include the impact of technology in democratic networked societies, internet shutdowns, information disorder and major issues affecting the internet policy space in India. Prateek worked as a Research Analyst with the High Tech Geopolitics Programme at The Takshashila Institution from 2019 to 2022.

Utkarsh Narain
Utkarsh Narain

Utkarsh was a Research Analyst with the High-Tech Geopolitics Programme from 2019 to 2020. His research interests focused on space policy and technology governance.

Anupam Manur
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