The Soot Opportunity
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This short article on the businesses' potential gains from early attention to black carbon mitigation appeared in Harvard Business Review, April 2010. The link to the article is here: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=3232&i=3234&cs=7b87f851aad0adfd3f4657ce0afb2202

The Full Climate Change Tale
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Editorial from Mint, India's affiliate of the Wall Street Journal on opportunities for rapid impact on climate change. 

Context of Poverty
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India's Parliament as a Representative Institution
Author(s):Jessica Wallack
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This article looks at the institutional framework for parliamentary debate in India in comparative perspective. Participation in debate and policymaking is fundamental to representation, yet most of India's representatives have limited resources and opportunities to do so in comparison to members of parliament around the world. 

The Other Climate Changers
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Link to article in Foreign Affairs, September/October 2009 issue on the strategic potential of reducing black carbon and ozone as a fast-acting way to mitigate climate change.

Local-Global: Reconciling Mismatched Ontologies in Development Information Systems
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This paper extends pre-existing digital divide conceptualizations to further investigate the important issue of mismatches between the ontologies that state-created information systems and local, community preferences are embedded in. We argue that the reconciliation of these diverse logics and framings is critical for the effective engagement with communities as well as formulation and implementation of development policies. We suggest several paths toward overcoming mismatched ontologies that would enable communities to be directly involved and productively engaged in developing shared ontologies. These mechanisms would also help policymakers to avoid 'information loss' due to ontology mismatch while preserving their ability to develop scalable, comparative perspectives to guide policies.

User Innnovation & eGovernance Design
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This paper provides an analytical case study of an Indian NGO’s efforts to engage city government officials in developing and refining an e-governance system for tracking public grievances and city performance in redressing these. It is a draft of a paper that will be forthcoming as part of an edited volume on Hidden Success: Institutional Reform In Urban India, edited by Professor Bish Sanyal (MIT).