Lighting a Path to Community Resilience and Decentralization
Babitha George | A Network50 Spotlight
Babitha George is a researcher, a Principal of Quicksand Design Studio, a co-founder of the UnBox Festival and an advocate for social equality and development. She has been active in the Internet health movement as a team leader, researcher and IoT program facilitator. She is a member of our first cohort of “Network50.”
Babitha is a key collaborator and thought partner on the topic of decentralization and digital inclusion, especially within the Global South. She has been a leading light in bringing complex, nuanced, design research into the Internet health movement. She has shown herself to be an excellent leader in the curation of research and in facilitating groups of individuals to have meaningful discussions around Open IoT.
Babitha was instrumental in at least three IoT events last year; she hosted the first event in Ahmedabad, India, led the team that conducted user research on privacy and the connected home for the second event, and co-edited the book publication at the third event. She also researched the role of local manufacturing and alternative forms of making as a path to community resilience and decentralization.
