Digital Audit Culture (or Metadata)

In chapter fifteen, Shankar attends a meeting between Saahaayaka leadership, development personnel, and Karnataka educational leaders. During this meeting, Shankar finds that the versions of digital innovation imagined by those in positions of power reflect their fear of bureaucratic incompetence and corruption. As such, phone apps become a means to surveille those implementing programs, a way to “audit the auditers,” as it were.