Bargains! PROMOTIONS
Ayaan Chowdhury writes about the invisible rules that govern our digital lives. Raised between Kolkata and London, he brings the sociologist's lens to questions usually left to engineers and lawyers, asking not only how systems work but who they serve. At the Oxford Internet Institute, his research explores AI governance and the global digital divide, with a focus on how infrastructure choices shape everyday freedoms. A simple mission drives him: to make complex technology legible to citizens and accountable to the public interest. A childhood memory of crossing India's Howrah Bridge lingers in his work: a reminder that passage is never just a route, but a relationship between power and possibility.
