Vision & Mission

Vision

Research: High quality research in all areas of IE.
Pedagogy: Innovative academic programs on IE.
Advocacy: Initiatives for promotion of IE.
Dissemination: Activities for bringing awareness on social implications of use of information in the society.

Mission

To promote multidisciplinary collaborative research in the areas such as privacy, IPR, surveillance society, gender issues, media issues, misinformation & disinformation, information use in different cultural contexts and cultural attitudes related to these contexts, information and indigenous communities etc.
To design courses on subjects related to the above.
To regularly organize workshops on different aspects of use of information in the society and its impact on humans.
To initiate and work with different groups promoting IE and its social impact
To organize national/international conferences on the above.
To collaborate with both governmental and non-governmental national/international institutions/agencies, industries, and policy makers to effectively implement the Vision and the Mission.
To make Recommendations to respective statutory bodies for inclusion of ethical and moral values of information in the policy documents.