Social Informatics Research Group (SIRG), initiated at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta) in 2015 under the leadership of Prof Dr Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, is a multi-disciplinary research group involving researchers and practitioners in the domain of Management, Social Policy, Sociology, Education, Social Work and Computer & Information Science. After retirement of Prof Bandyopadhyay from IIM Calcutta in November 2022, SIRG is running as an autonomous research group under his leadership since December 2022. The objective of Social Informatics Research Group is to evaluate the possible impact of Internet-enabled Social Technologies on individual, groups, organizations and society at large and to develop and investigate Socially-enabled Applications in empowering underprivileged communities.