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Reading Floridi: Towards an Informational Ethics of the Infosphere

Reading Floridi: Towards an Informational Ethics of the Infosphere

Our lives are overwhelmingly lived online, seeped in information. An ethical approach to information requires us to think of it…
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Shyam Krishnakumar
Sep 27, 2020
AI Carries High Risk. Policymakers Must Treat it That Way.

AI Carries High Risk. Policymakers Must Treat it That Way.

AI is everywhere. Can we use policy tools from other disciplines which factor in risk to regulate it better?
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Titiksha Vashist
Sep 11, 2020
India’s Non Personal Data Report Suffers from a noble vision

India’s Non Personal Data Report Suffers from a noble vision

The Robin Hood inspired report aims to rob the data-rich companies and share the wealth with, er, other companies. And the state.
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Shyam Krishnakumar
Aug 17, 2020
Is the Digital Health ID the one key-card to rule them all?

Is the Digital Health ID the one key-card to rule them all?

India’s National Health Stack and the dream of Universal Health Coverage
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Titiksha Vashist
Aug 17, 2020
India’s Troubled Tryst with Technology: A Review of Midnight’s Machines by Arun Sukumar

India’s Troubled Tryst with Technology: A Review of Midnight’s Machines by Arun Sukumar

The Indian state has had an uneasy relationship with technology throughout history. What can the past tell us about the future?
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Shantanu Kishwar
Aug 1, 2020
India’s Homegrown Giant: Jio’s aims to be Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei rolled into one

India’s Homegrown Giant: Jio’s aims to be Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei rolled into one

In a neo-mercantile world where nation-states encourage homegrown tech giants, will Jio be the answer to China’s BAT?
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Shyam Krishnakumar
Jul 18, 2020
Platforms of Travel: A Peek into India’s Digitally-Driven Tourism Industry

Platforms of Travel: A Peek into India’s Digitally-Driven Tourism Industry

A few weeks back, photos of the recently-opened Tulip Garden in Munsiyari, Uttarakhand flooded social media platforms. Sharing the first…
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Arunima Gupta
May 29, 2020
Demystifying India’s Space Policy

Demystifying India’s Space Policy

The co-travellers being the private sector of India especially the space based startups for whom several policy change announcements were…
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Yash Todi
May 29, 2020
Aarogya Setu Privacy Guidelines: An Explainer

Aarogya Setu Privacy Guidelines: An Explainer

Aarogya Setu has rightly been at the center of conversations on India’s technological response to COVID 19. These are unprecedented times…
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Shyam Krishnakumar
May 15, 2020
Crisis is the new mother of Invention

Crisis is the new mother of Invention

COVID-19 is causing some paradigmatic shifts. Here are 7 tech solutions that will trend because of it.
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Jagannadh Mellacheruvu
May 15, 2020
The World, Post-Corona | The Emerging Economic and Technopolitical Disorder

The World, Post-Corona | The Emerging Economic and Technopolitical Disorder

In Part II, read the scattering of global supply chains, how China is shopping as the world burns and US-China’s technopolitical fissures
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Titiksha Vashist
May 1, 2020
Bharat’s Digital Imprint on the Globe — Part 2 | Empowering Communities

Bharat’s Digital Imprint on the Globe — Part 2 | Empowering Communities

A.I. for All
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Vignesh Venkatachalam
Apr 30, 2020
The Great Fracture Just Went Global: 5 Cracks in the International Order

The Great Fracture Just Went Global: 5 Cracks in the International Order

What will the post-covid world look like? The economic, social, political and technological normal have changed forever.
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Titiksha Vashist
Apr 16, 2020
Bharat’s Digital Imprint on the Globe — Part 1 | Empowering the Individual

Bharat’s Digital Imprint on the Globe — Part 1 | Empowering the Individual

Make for India, Make for the world
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Vignesh Venkatachalam
Apr 15, 2020
We’ve lost our sense of space. Here’s why.

We’ve lost our sense of space. Here’s why.

It’s safe to say that we are living on our mobile devices now.
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Titiksha Vashist
Mar 5, 2020

Can Code be Law?

Two decades ago, an obscure Stanford Law school professor shook both the legal community and the early pioneers of cyberspace by asking a…
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Shyam Krishnakumar
Feb 18, 2020
How the Macy Conferences Shaped the Future

How the Macy Conferences Shaped the Future

Read how getting people working on the edge of their disciplines together unleashed new thought paradigms…
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Titiksha Vashist
Feb 18, 2020
Break Free of your Bigot Bubble

Break Free of your Bigot Bubble

The age of the algorithm is here. They are all around us, invisible to the average user, directing our digital movements in decisive ways…
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Titiksha Vashist
Feb 3, 2020
Government’s Zero MDR Policy Could Kill Digital Payments in India

Government’s Zero MDR Policy Could Kill Digital Payments in India

Twenty years ago, the internet catalysed the flow of information from the hands of a few into those of everyone. Today, digital finance is…
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Atulaa Krishnamurthy
Feb 3, 2020
Human Genomics and the Emerging Era of Precision Medicine

Human Genomics and the Emerging Era of Precision Medicine

How genetic sequencing will unleash Predictive, Preventive, Personalised and Participatory healthcare
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Titiksha Vashist
Jan 20, 2020
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