Pranesh Prakash was a 2019 India-U.S. Fellow at New America. Prakash spent his fellowship working on policy and standards relating to the Indian parliament's record-keeping and legislative process. This work will examine two main issues. First, he will research why votes in India's parliament aren't recorded, if they should be, and how that could be achieved. Second, he will examine if parliamentary and judicial record-keeping and the legislative process can be improved by adopting open standards.
Prakash was part of the founding team of the Centre for Internet and Society, a non-profit that engages in policy research, where he now is a fellow. He is also the legal lead at Creative Commons India and an affiliated fellow (formerly A2K Fellow) at the Yale Law School's Information Society Project. In 2014 he was selected by Forbes India for its inaugural "30 under 30" list of young achievers, and in 2012 he was nominated as an Internet Freedom Fellow by the U.S. government.