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...
Technically Speaking, Why is Encryption a Big Deal for the Government?
Hosted by Sourya Reddy
Edited by Nidhi Rejithlal
Encryption has been the talk of the tech world for the better part of 5 years now. While...
#Dialogues: Do Applications Pose a Threat to Cyber Security? With Pukhraj Singh
Interview by Bharath Pottekkat
Edited by Malavika VN
The inventions of simple-looking, yet complex, mobile and desktop applications have changed the way we consume content. Be...
Data Data Everywhere, Whose is it to Give?
Written by Sourya Reddy & Swagam Dasgupta
It was a bone-dry morning in the middle of May, much like any other summer in Delhi. Although...
Isn’t State-led Censoring of Content on OTT Platforms Rather Over the Top?
Tandav—a Hindi language political thriller starring Saif Ali Khan available on Amazon’s “Prime Video'' Over-The-Top streaming service (OTT)—has been the centre of public controversy....
Four Predictions for India’s National Cyber Security Strategy 2020
Harvard’s ‘National Cyber Power Index 2020’ assesses the capabilities and intent of 30 countries expressing ambitions to acquire and project ‘cyber power’. India was...
E-Governance and its Discontents: The Traps of Tech Revolutions in Stratified Societies
Governments' efforts to erect new systems of e-governance must not come at the cost of peoples’ capacities to access governance itself.
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.
Electric Vehicles, Clean Indian Lungs: The Reality of the 2020 NEMMP
At the SIAM convention earlier this month, Nitin Gadkari, Union Road Transport Minister, made evident the government’s intention to make a switch to electric...
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.