Tapan Parikh·Mar 14, 2024Chasing Innovation and Geek Heresy: Two Book Reviews for the Price of OneEverybody wants to write about India. Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Adam Smith were all deeply influenced by the experiences they had with…A response icon1A response icon1
Tapan Parikh·Jul 14, 2022America the BeautifulWhen I was growing up, America was still a compelling idea. A place where anything was possible, with unimaginable entertainments and…
Tapan Parikh·Jul 14, 2022Party Like its 2021Everything is going to get better! We only need to work together and believe! After all, aren’t the injustices of the past only momentary…
Tapan Parikh·Aug 22, 2021The End of ICTD?As I watched chaos unfold at the Kabul airport last week, I couldn’t help but imagine that some of those people caught up in the panic —…A response icon1A response icon1
Tapan Parikh·Jan 15, 2021On Destruction in Design(This piece is co-written with my student Samar Sabie. It also appears in n the December 2020 issue of ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society…
Tapan Parikh·Jul 21, 2020Design for Implications: Karl Marx comes for HCIAs Marx famously said, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” When we…
Tapan Parikh·Jul 14, 2020My Experiences with Knownet-GRIN(This is a story I wrote for a very early ICTD publication launched by a World Bank funding program called InfoDev that was influential at…
Tapan Parikh·Apr 16, 2020Nothing is ever “empty”“It was empty”. I will never forget the mayor’s words as he talked about how NYC Health and Hospitals Coler facility was being converted…
Tapan Parikh·Mar 22, 2020Liberate the Internet and its Core ApplicationsIf you are like me, your mind has been racing for the last few days, alternating between a somber realization of the grim toll this crisis…A response icon4A response icon4
