Mediating the Media: Making India’s Children Media Literate
Authored by Ipsita Mishra
The Internet is the main source of information today, with usage climbing across urban and rural areas. Where we get our...
From Rote to Tech: India’s Path to Ensuring Higher Learning Outcomes
Written by Amrita Singh
How would you equally divide 16 oranges between 4 people? This year, the Annual Status of Education Report 2017 (ASER) decided...
From Bans to Monitoring, Why Are Schools Policing Teenagers’ Social Media Activity?
From Twitter to Tik Tok, social media has become an integral platform for students’ lives, be it for social, political, or educational reasons. As...
Is the National Digital Health Mission an Effective Treatment for India’s Health System?
This article is the first of a two-part series on the National Digital Health Mission, and the best practices required to scale digital health...
To Unlock the Potential of Open Government Data, India Needs New, Comprehensive Legislation
Almost a decade after the launch of India’s Open [Government] Data initiative, the program remains constrained and has not lived up to its potential. Its deficiencies stem largely from the discretionary nature of the nation’s Open Data policy.
Technically Speaking, Can a Journalist Display Your Whatsapp Conversations on TV?
Yet, when shown on TV, the context is often taken away and our words are left bare for the country to see and more significantly, judge. In this light, we ask Apar Gupta—Executive Director of the Internet Freedom Foundation—can a journalist display your Whatsapp conversations on TV?
Technically Speaking, How Can I Safeguard My Online Data & Information? Part 2 with...
Edited by Sumit Krishna Yadav
As technology evolves, so does our perception of what constitutes privacy and security. Over the past few years, privacy has...
Technically Speaking, When Can Law Enforcement Seize My Phone? Part 1 With Apar Gupta
Edited by Sumit Krishna Yadav
Our phones have become a vital part of our virtual and physical existence. With the ability to process large amounts...
Building (Anti)trust: Can Competition Law Protect Us From Big Tech’s Harms?
Competition law has been in the news recently. After over a year-long investigation, the US Justice Department finally filed a much-anticipated lawsuit against Google...
Technically Speaking, Why Does Technology Adoption Need to Be Made More Transparent?
Hosted by Swagam Dasgupta
Edited by Malavika VN
Technology systems, when adopted by the state, come with a host of concerns, that range from individual data...
