Rashmi P S

Oct 29, 2025 | Doctoral Researchers, People

Researcher

 

📧: Rashmi.Subbanarasimha@iiitb.ac.in

 Education : B.Arch, M.Plan, Doctoral scholar [IIITB]

Rashmi Pavagada Subbanarasimha is a PhD student at the Centre for IT and Public Policy (CITAPP), IIITB. She has professional experience spanning digital urban studies, urban planning, architecture, teaching, and research. Her research and professional interests lie at the intersection of digital infrastructure studies, public service management, urban planning, and information systems, with a core focus on exploring the politics of built environments, technology, and society.

Rashmi has contributed to projects on urban development planning, city infrastructure strategies, regional master plan development, town planning schemes, digital infrastructure and service design, and state open data policy management. She holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore.

Some of her recent research work can be accessed at: www.linkedin.com/in/rashmi-pavagada-subbanarasimha-516710271.

 

Public policy, urban infrastructure, digital governance, digital service design, urban planning, and master plan developments, examined through the politics of technology, labor, and society, at the intersection of information systems, STS, urban studies, and governance. 

Journal

  • Subbanarasimha, R. P., Venumuddala, V. R., Prakash, A., & Chaudhuri, B. (2025). Embracing complexity in smart city services: A case of waste management. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 10(2), 100661.

Conference

  • Subbanarasimha, R. P (2025). Beyond Breakdowns: Visibilizing the Infrastructural Labor that sustain everyday Information System Shortcomings. In Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2025/is_adoption/is_adoption/12/
  • Subbanarasimha, R. P., Venumuddala, V. R., Prakash, A., & Chaudhuri, B. (2023). Complexity of Last Mile Networks and Ethics of Smart City Interventions: A Case of Solid Waste Management Intervention in Karnataka. In International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT(pp. 341-353). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
  • Subbanarasimha, R. P. (2025). Beyond Compliance: The Everyday Labor of Interpreting, Negotiating, and Enforcing Transparency and Privacy in Digital Governance. In STS India Conference on Co-shaping of Science, Technology, and Society in India.
  • Subbanarasimha, R. P. (2025). Privacy and Transparency Nexus in Open Government Data: Exploring the complexities arising from overlaps between RTI and DPDP Act. In XX International Conference on Public Policy & Management, IIMB.
  • Subbanarasimha, R. P. (2025). Urban Pulse: (Re)Thinking Cities as Living Ecosystems. In Kalpa, Vol. 05, 2024 (pp. 35–39) by RV College of Architecture.
  • Subbanarasimha, R. P. (2023). Visibilizing Images of Infrastructures: Exploring ‘Infrastructure—Planning’ Nexus in Indian Cities. An interview-based approach for a new perspective on urban policies in Indian cities. In XVIII International Conference on Public Policy & Management (pp.12). IIMB. https://www.iimb.ac.in/sites/default/files/inline-files/CPPConference_2023 Proceedings.pdf
  • Subbanarasimha, R. P. (2023). Glocalized planning: Emerging new perspectives for city planning and social inclusions in Bengaluru city. In International Conference on Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development in Global South: International Experiences and Future Strategies. Institute for human Development. New Delhi. https://www.ihdindia.org/UrbanDevConference2023/book-of-abstracts.pdf

PROJECTS

  • Urban Planning & Regulatory Frameworks: Contributed to the Master Plan 2024 for Gandhinagar–Ahmedabad, including bye-laws, zoning, regulatory, and policy frameworks.
  • Open Government & Digital Governance: Led the conceptualization and drafting of Karnataka’s Open Government Data Policy 2.0, alongside the design of a digital service delivery platform ensuring compliance with the framework and enabling transparent citizen access.
  • Integrated Information Systems: Coordinated the development of a unified information platform, engaging stakeholders across government departments to ensure interoperability, policy alignment, and user-centric design.
  • Digital Public Services & Regulatory Compliance: Directed the revision of seven digital public service platforms, originally designed under the RTI Act, to comply with emerging requirements of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP), addressing privacy and cybersecurity standards.
  • State Welfare Service Delivery: Designed and deployed five digital service projects to operationalize the state government’s “Five Guarantee Schemes”, improving citizen access and delivery efficiency.

WORKSHOPS

  • Summer workshop in “mixed methods across the urban disciplines” at the University of Toronto, School of Cities in July-August 2023.
  • The Infrastructure Studies workshop “Between Promises and Ruptures: Infrastructural Realities of our Built World” at the Northwestern University in Qatar in mid-February 2025. A paper development workshop where all selected papers are undergoing reviews for journal submission. (final review process on-going)

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

  • Panel member for discussion on key insights on Digital Public Infrastructures (2023 June) in a Frontiers symposium on Digital Futures: Infrastructure for Equity, Inclusivity, Sustainability conducted by Royal Academy of Engineers, UK.
  • Panel discussion on the Acknowledging and Embracing the Complexities of Conducting Ethnography: navigating the notions of messiness in the Field (2023 November) in 4S 2023 conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i. Society for Social Studies of Science.