{"id":712,"date":"2025-10-02T03:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/shah-nishant\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:52:45","slug":"shah-nishant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/shah-nishant\/","title":{"rendered":"Shah Nishant"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNishant Shah<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n    <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Shah Nishant\">\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_pinit\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n    <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/shah-nishant\/182697-1-eng-gb\/shah-nishant_author.jpg\" alt=\"Shah Nishant\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tCentre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Nishant Shah is the founder and Director-Research at the Bangalore based Centre for Internet and Society. He has been one of the principle researchers for the collaborative knowledge programme \u201cDigital Natives with a Cause?\u201d at Hivos Neltherlands and is the co-editor for the 4 volume book Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?. Nishant has worked severally with NGOs, Governments and corporate actors in the fields of development, education, art and community building in the last ten years in Asia. He is an Asia Research Fellow (2008-09) and also serves on the steering committee for the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Consortium and HASTAC.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/future-calling-blog\/of-surrogate-futures-and-scattered-temporalities\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/future-calling-blog\/of-surrogate-futures-and-scattered-temporalities\/182834-1-eng-gb\/of-surrogate-futures-and-scattered-temporalities_column.jpg\" alt=\"Of surrogate futures and scattered temporalities\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/future-calling-blog\/of-surrogate-futures-and-scattered-temporalities\/\">Of surrogate futures and scattered temporalities<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/shah-nishant\/\">Nishant Shah<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t26 December 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tThere can be no refuting Michael Edwards&#8217; 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