Overview
Neena Pandey completed her Ph.D. in Information Systems Area from IIM Bangalore. Her thesis was in the domain of Internet Governance, in which she analyzed various aspects of policymaking with respect to the Internet. Two main debates under the governance of the Internet that she dealt in her thesis are the multi-stakeholder versus multilateral form of Internet governance, and the impact of digital divide on sponsored data plan policy.
During the last leg of her research, she had been a member of the Founding team of DigiSec360IN Solutions Private Limited, a start-up in cyber-security space, incubated at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore. Prior to her Ph.D., she has 9.5 years of corporate experience. During that stint, she worked in firmware development firms like Samsung India, Sencore Electronics and Verizon Data Services in the U.S. Her other academic credentials include M.Tech. in Computer Science and Technology from IIT Madras and M.Sc. in Statistics from IIT Kanpur.
Education: Ph D (IIM Bangalore), M.Tech. (Computer Science and Technology), M.Sc (Statistics)
Teaching
Leading Digital Transformations (PGP)
Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Technology Use (PGP-DGM)
Research & Publications
Working Papers
- The Impact of Digital Divide on Optimal Sponsored Data Plans Policy, with Manaswini Bhalla and Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay
- Irreversibility of ICANN Network: An Actor Network Based Analysis, with Rahul De’ and M.N. Ravishankar
- Legitimacy Perception of Internet Governance Form: An Institutional and Rational Perspective, with Rahul De’
Conference Proceedings and Presentations
- Pandey Neena, Bhalla, Manaswini & Bandyopadhyay, Subhajyoti (2019), “The Role of Digital Divide on Optimal Zero-Rating Policy” – Pacific Asia Conference of Information Systems, Xi’an, China.
- Pandey, Neena & De’, Rahul (2018), “Legitimacy Perception of Internet Governance Form: An Institutional and Rational Perspective”, Presented at GIGANET (Global Internet Governance Academic Network) Symposium, Paris.
- Pandey, Neena (2018), “The Impact of Zero-Rating Plans: The Role of Context”, Presented at the Pan-IIM World Management Conference, Bangalore, India.
- Pandey, Neena (2017), “Community Journalism and Empowerment: Do they go hand in hand?”, Presented at the ACM-SIGMIS Computers and People Research Conference, Bangalore, India.
- Pandey, Neena & De’, Rahul (2017), “Choice of Internet Governance Structure: A Cross-Country Study of National Level Factors”, Presented at the International Conference on Theory & Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV), New Delhi, India.
- Pandey, Neena & De`, Rahul (2017), “Internet Governance Maturity Model: Assessing India’s Maturity”, Presented at International Conference on Theory & Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV), New Delhi, India.
- Pandey, Neena (2014), “Institutionalization and Legitimation of Informatics based Community Journalism: A Case Study from India”, Presented at Communication Policy Research: South, Johannesburg, South Africa
Case Studies
- A Case on Net-Neutrality, in collaboration with Rahul De’ and Sai Dattathrani, 2016 – A teaching case used in Post Graduate Program (PGP) and Post Graduate Program in Public Policy Management (PGPPM) courses at IIM Bangalore
Patents
- U.S. Patent 8850475: Provisioning an Enhanced Television (ETV) application, jointly with Sudhanshu Sharma
- U.S. Patent 8646021: Method and apparatus for providing an interactive application within a media stream, jointly with Sudhanshu Sharma
Training & Consulting
Workshops Attended
- Paper Development Workshop held (online) at IIM Bangalore, March 2020
- ISB-IIMB Doctoral Consortium on Teaching, sponsored by International School of Business Management (ISBM), Hyderabad, 2017
- Fellowship granted to attend the First Indian School on Internet Governance, Hyderabad, 2016
Services
Chair - PGP-DGM (February 2020 – present)
Chair – ITRAC (February 2020 – present)
Member – PGP Committee (December 2019 – present)
Have been reviewing for journals like Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Journal of Association of Information Systems (JAIS), and various conferences held in the Information Systems area (ICIS, ICEGOV, ACM SIGMIS, ECIS etc.)
