Bangalore, 26 November 2020: A paper titled, ‘Actualizing affordances – Story of Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry delivering Artificial Intelligence based solutions’, co-authored by Professor Rajalaxmi Kamath of the Public Policy area of IIM Bangalore and Vinay Reddy Venumuddala, doctoral student at IIMB, has won the ‘Best Student Paper in Track’ for the track ‘IS Development and Project Management’, at ICIS 2020. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) is a conference of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
As per a notification from the ICIS 2020 Program Co-Chairs, this also means that the paper is nominated for the Best Student Paper Award at ICIS 2020. All the nominees will be honored and the winners announced at the conference during the award session on Tuesday, December 15, 2020.
Since 2007, Dr. Rajalaxmi Kamath has been working extensively among urban poor households in two areas of Ramanagaram town, Karnataka state, with the intention of understanding their financial lives. She is also involved in the documentation of issues in public policy with the participants of the Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management (PGPPM) or the Master of Management Studies (Public Policy) of IIMB. She has had teaching stints both in the US and at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. Prior to joining academics, she was with the Indian Revenue Services.
