The Council for Social and Digital Development (CSDD) activities veers around:
- Develop and coordinate new research projects and collaborations
- Provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge between Northeast India, South and South East Asia based academics
- Expand academic engagement with new South and South East Asian partners
- Host public events, including lectures, festivals and seminars
- Facilitate online debate on Northeast India, South and South East Asian issues, through blogs and social media
- Forecast political, economic, environmental and development trends across the regions.
Upcoming Projects
These programmes pursue a variety of projects including the following, some of which are upcoming research and policy projects of CSDD:
- Strengthening and Improving Access and Demand Uptake on Public Schemes Information and Entitlement Benefits
- Institutional and Community level approaches to deal with Increasing Cyber Crimes in Assam
- Understanding Gender Digital Divide in North East India
- Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development in North East India
- Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy
- Understanding the Directions in Social Policy: Alternatives from and for North East India
- Meaningful Connectivity and Access
- Emerging Digital Society in North East India
- Digital Transformation of Local Economy
- Social and Digital Challenges in Digital Economy Gains
- Social and Solidarity Economy for the SDGs: Spotlight on the Social Economy
- Overcoming Inequalities in a Post Covid-19 North East India: Between Elite Power and Social Mobilization
- Sustainable Development Performance Indicators
- Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change in North East India
- North East-Mainland Migration, Inequality and Development Hub
- CSDD is working on a new way of sourcing projects in the form of an “Ideas Incubator”, in which it actively seeks partners to expand its research portfolio.