Saadia Azim

Saadia Azim is a public policy professional, journalist, and researcher with over 25 years of experience across governance, public communication, and mass media. She serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Government of West Bengal’s flagship digital public service delivery program, overseeing more than 5,000 digital kiosks.
Her writing on digital misinformation, governance, and algorithmic bias has appeared in the Internet Society Blog, ISOC Pulse, the Global Media Journal, and scholarly volumes on media and democracy. She is based and works in Kolkata, bringing a field-level perspective to the study of how information travels and misleads in everyday life