LEAD is an action-oriented research centre of IFMR Society, and has strategic oversight and brand support from Krea University to enable research synergies.
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Our new website is live 🎉
What started as a redesign became a 20-year reflection across research, policy & practice and shaped the thinking behind it. At its core is: #UntanglingComplexity 🧶because impact is complex, messy, and deeply contextual.
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Registrations open for the International Conference on One Health: Integrating Interfaces for India’s Biosecurity and Pandemic Resilience.
🔗 Register now by scanning the QR code.
📅 2–3 July 2026 | 📍 Chennai
@LEADatKrea @mssrf @DeccancentreIR #OneHealth #biosecurity
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💸What drives digital payments adoption in India: infrastructure or merchants?
A new peer-reviewed article by Abhinav Motheram & our ED @sharon_buteau examines 711 districts between 2020–24 to understand the supply-side drivers of UPI adoption.
🔗bit.ly/4vdDZAh
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🛺 Across Chennai, women auto drivers are steering change against all odds.
Based on insights from 220 women auto drivers, our study w/ACE explores their financial and digital realities, aspirations, work patterns, & wellbeing.
🔍Read: bit.ly/4uxAK5l
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5⃣ key takeaways
💳 Auto driving offers many women flexibility & income
🛡️Income gains don't always mean financial security
📱Platforms create opportunities & dependencies
🚧Structural barriers still limit entry & growth
✅Despite the challenges, 94% would recommend auto driving
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📣 AI Safety & Gender in India | Mitigation Pathways
As AI shapes daily life, India needs gender-responsive safeguards rooted in local realities. Drawing on latest brief from our GxD hub & @DigiFuturesLab, we highlight 4⃣ pathways to safer AI systems.
🔗bit.ly/3R1pVL1
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🤖What does AI safety mean in India–& safe for whom?
As AI scales across everyday systems, risks aren’t experienced equally. New brief from our GxD hub & @DigiFuturesLab unpacks AI harms through a gender lens grounded in the Indian context.
🔖Explore:tinyurl.com/4c2vsx9e
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Key insights 🔍
⚖️ AI safety is an inclusion–exclusion question
📱 Harms are uneven across users
🛡️ Narrow “technical” views miss real risks: exclusion, bias, poor performance & weak redress
More on mitigation pathways in our next post.
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🗓️ April 23 | 📍 Oxford
How can growth be more inclusive, distributed & locally rooted?
At the Rubanomics Global Forum, alongside Skoll World Forum, our ED Sharon Buteau will share insights on integrated pathways for women & youth.
🔗 RSVP: luma.com/njnxb8jp
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Who gets to inherit land—& who's expected to give it up?
Across Northern India, women are quietly reshaping inheritance norms—navigating social expectations & legal rights to claim what’s theirs.
Our research w/ @OpenUniversity explores how.
🔍 Explore: lnkd.in/gJdJzKj4
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Key takeaways 🧵
🔍 Negotiating across natal & marital families
👭 Building alliances to strengthen claims
📜 Redirecting land toward daughters
⚖️ Challenging norms in everyday ways
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Spotlight | Hosted by IFMR & @kreauniversity, this official pre-Summit event of the @OfficialINDIAai Summit 2026 brings together IFMR alumni, policymakers, and experts. LEAD looks forward to reconnecting with its alumni and joining conversations on inclusive AI. 🙋🏽♂️🌍🙋🏿♀️
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Hosted by IFMR & Krea University
Pre-summit event of the AI Impact Summit 2026 and first in-person gathering of the IFMR Centres Alumni Network IFMR Centres Alumni Network Launch.
📍Delhi
More details ⬇️
#AIImpactSummit2026 #ResponsibleAI #IFMRAlumni #GlobalSouth
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LEAD at Krea University retweeted
Jan 13
📌 Preethi Rao of @LEADatKrea argues that fundraising has to be strategic, systemic, and rooted in trust—not just proposal writing. Diversification, internal systems, & long-term donor stewardship are key to resilience in a fast-changing funding landscape: onthinktanks.org/articles/wh…
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LEAD at Krea University retweeted
Jan 13
New on the #OTTblog: Fresh insights on #funding, power, and resilience for #thinktanks
Two compelling perspectives on how think tanks can strengthen their financial foundations and partnerships for the future.
Links in the thread below 🧵👇
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LEAD at Krea University retweeted
20 Nov 2025
Launched at Charcha 2025, a new report by @LEADatKrea University and @thenudge_in shows only 37% of Indian women use mobile internet, with many relying on borrowed devices.
Read more: yourstory.com/socialstory/20…
By @rekhabaala
#DigitalDivide #WomenInTech #GenderGap #Charcha2025
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Mark your calendars 🗓️ LEAD alumni!
IFMR & @kreauniversity are launching the IFMR Centres Alumni Network, bringing IFMR alumni together. LEAD looks forward to reconnecting and having conversations on inclusive AI & the public good.
📍 Jan 28 | New Delhi
More details below ⬇️
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3 Dec 2025
📣 ICYMI | As digital work expands, women see new opportunities but also barriers. Our latest study w/ @thenudge_in & @BMGFIndia maps emerging roles, persistent barriers & what can shift outcomes.
🔗 Explore the full report: bit.ly/49TDJ1A
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Key insights 👇
📱Digital work is reshaping aspirations, but entry points remain uneven
🚧 Skilling, onboarding, safety & mobility gaps still restrict participation
📈 Flexibility income potential exist, but so do precarity & new risks
🧩 Ecosystem-wide action is essential
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