Technology

Exploring the positive and negative impacts of technology on Indian society

Can India’s 2023 G20 Presidency Stitch Together A Fragmented Global Digital Landscape?

India is set to assume the G20 Presidency in 2023: it can use this position to balance national interests and promote global trust and capacity building.
Ramanathan Ramanan

Building an Entrepreneurial India with Ramanathan Ramanan (Part II)

Edited by Malavika VN  In Part 1 of this series, R. Ramanan, Mission Director of the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), Niti Aayog, spoke about the...

How To Tell If Online Voting Systems Are Good For Democracy

Before implementing online voting systems, voters, researchers, and journalists reporting on elections need a framework to assess their feasibility.

How the Economic Costs of Surveillance Impact India Inc.

With India yet to pass a citizen-centric data protection law, could this cost our trade ties with privacy-centric economies?

How Standardizing Quality Control Can Improve Trust in eNAM

Farmers found their hands tied when supply chains froze during the COVID-19 pandemic. As restrictions on movement led to shortages of farm labour, input...

Going All Out for AI: How Reliance’s Acquisition of Addverb Impacts the Future of...

Reliance has always been a key player in capitalising the modern Indian market. It has been keenly eyeing developments that compliment and compete against...

Through The Looking Glass: The Hidden Costs of Linking Aadhaar and Voter IDs

Just because the government's proposal to link Aadhaar and voter IDs sees no allocation in the 2022-23 Union Budget doesn't mean that there are no costs to these plans.
Big Tech Regulation

Technically Speaking, What Can We Learn from Australia’s Move to Regulate Big Tech? with...

Hosted by Aarathi Ganesan Edited by Nidhi Rejithlal For the past three years, Australia has been ground-zero for Big Tech regulation, especially in the battle between...

How Can We Hold the State Accountable for its Technology Adoption? With Srinivas Kodali

How can a nation’s citizenry, civil society and research bodies come together to hold the State accountable in order to ensure that these technologies are being adopted in a fair, robust and transparent manner without being misused? Srinivas Kodali—an independent researcher—tells us his thoughts.
India Predictive Policing

Technically Speaking, Does India Use Predictive Policing? (Ep. 2)

Researched by Bharath Pottekkat  Edited by Malavika VN  Hosted by Sourya Reddy  Episode 1 of this series looked at the concept of predictive policing, what it entails,...