JANUARY 01 2023
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Preserving Data Sanctity In The Era of Surveillance
Amid rising concerns over threat to privacy due to its surveillance approach, the government must up its game with more stringent and clear data protection laws if it wants to realise its ambition of a digital India
Chitra Nair - January 01, 2023
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The Balancing Act
To what extent does gender become a liability or a hurdle in the path to success? In her book, Anita Bhogle draws from experiences of women who made different career-related choices, from aggressively marching on to compromising on the job profile or giving it all up for the sake of family duties, to prepare a narrative on the challenges they face
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The Indian Way Of Regulating Big Tech
India wants to overhaul the mechanism through which it governs the fast-evolving tech sector and reams of data government initiatives and private sector produce. With Prime Minister Modi’s desire to imprint his muscular persona on it, the balancing act lies in its details
Kamalika Ghosh - January 01, 2023
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RBI’s Unsure Walk With E-Rupee
The central bank’s discourse on CBDC is caught between its abhorrence for private digital currencies and FOMO on innovation in global financial order. Its cautious steps on e-rupee may conceptually sit well with a government that wants a digitised economy, but they put a question mark on the bank’s intent on the ground
Neeraj Thakur
& Harsh Kumar - January 01, 2023
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When Digital Disrupts Only VC Books
The country’s digital journey started almost two decades ago. Over 100 unicorns later and consuming billions of dollars in VC money, Indian digital companies are still looking for viable profit routes. How big is the failure of India’s digital copycat start-ups?
Nishant - January 01, 2023
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India’s Digital Winning Like A Frankenstein
India is an aspirational digital state. It wants to belong to the connected world like a leader despite its limitations of being a low-middle-income economy, having a large number of poor people, large illiteracy levels and less-than-reliable telecom infrastructure. Will the government’s push from the top create a national digital blueprint or turn the country into Charlie Chaplin’s Feeding Machine?
Nishant
& Vinita Bhatia - January 01, 2023
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India Needs A Neutral Authority To Hold Govt Accountable: Shashi Tharoor
Opposition MP and former chairperson of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology Shashi Tharoor, known for raising uncomfortable questions on various issues, speaks on the data protection bill, the controversy around it and the delay in tabling it in the Parliament
Kamalika Ghosh - January 01, 2023

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