Sep 23–26, 2019

Brindaalakshmi K
Independent Consultant, Independent Consultant

Brindaalakshmi K is a communications professional and researcher working at the intersection of identities, human rights, public health, and technology. She’s authoring the study "Gendering of Development Data in India: Beyond the Binary: for the Centre for Internet and Society, India as part of the Big Data for Development Network led by five global south organizations and supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. She’s a youth leader with citiesRISE, a global platform working on transforming mental heath policy and practice. She also peer supports members of the LGBTIQA+ community.

Sessions

5:25pm–6:05pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1E 14

Looking beyond the binary: How data for development impacts gender justice?

Case studies, Strata Business Summit

Secondary topics: Data quality, data governance and data lineage, Ethics, Health and Medicine

Brindaalakshmi K (Independent Consultant)

There's a lack of standard for the collection of gender data. Brindaalakshmi K takes a look at the implications of such a lack in the context of a developing country like India, the exclusion of individuals beyond the binary genders of male and female, and how this exclusion permeates beyond the public sector into private sector services. Read more.