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A blueprint to evaluate digital governance |
| Sooner than later, India will have to start evaluating its e-governance projects. And in the near future, the focus will shift to the outcomes of e-governance initiatives. |
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| Death by another name |
| 09 April 2013 |
| India runs the real risk of killing its environment in the blind pursuit of development in some areas. A stark example is the blatant manner in which the powerful leather industry in Unnao has been polluting the water sources in the name of development. |
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| The four pillars of a safe city |
| 20 March 2013 |
| Defining safety in urban spaces as just one of physical protection is self-defeating as it presupposes the existence of only reactive action. The construction of safety in sheer physical terms reduces, and often completely eliminates, the possibility of proactive action. |
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| When 'safety' becomes a ghetto for women |
| 20 March 2013 |
| In the urban-rural stereotyping, the phrase 'city girls' epitomises the impact of urban excesses on the apparent modesty and traditional aspect of femininity. City girls are assumed to be loud, to say the least, and of 'morally inappropriate character' on the extreme. |
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| Take cyber security seriously |
| 15 February 2013 |
| Till now India has seen cyber-security only as a simple issue of a malware or a virus. But cyber-security is about protecting India's digital assets from cyber invaders, as India is rapidly turning into a digital society. |
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| A space monkey and the art of rocket diplomacy |
| 15 February 2013 |
| Iran is being treated more like North Korea, even though it is one of the world's great civilisations, with major historical and scientific achievements. And, as anyone who has deeply analysed the personalities of Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Un knows, they don't look like one another. Or like one another. |
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| One click health |
| 02 January 2013 |
| The coming together of cognitive computing, digital devices with capabilities to touch, feel, smell and hear and super-speed Internet is poised to transform telemedicine. |
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| A convenient handmaiden called freedom |
| 18 December 2012 |
| The ruckus at WCIT is all about the cosy relationship between governments, big businesses and commerce and not about Internet freedom. |
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| The right medicine for learning - a tablet |
| 10 December 2012 |
| At some point in the near future, everyone will have a smart digital device. The new digital divide will be of those with access to interactive digital content and those without. |
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| Let technology and society dance together |
| 23 November 2012 |
| India spends over Rs 400,000 crores every year on schemes, projects and programmes broadly falling within the category of social welfare. Embedding appropriate technology in social welfare programmes can give poor Indians a real chance of empowerment. |
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| Breaking the gridlock |
| 31 August 2012 |
| Smart Grid technology solutions can not only help India reduce its transmission and distribution losses, but can also help leap to the future by bundling major public utilities over one single grid. |
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| Narrow the Open Standards debate |
| 24 June 2012 |
| No one knows what an Open Standard is. If we don’t define it explicitly in time, India’s ambitious digital governance plans will surely derail. |
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| Why should I vote? |
| 18 January 2012 |
| Has Indian democracy failed its people? Maybe it is time for all of us to introspect and answer this question in a genuine manner. |
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| Mumbai - A city of maximum contrasts |
| 3 January 2012 |
| For long we have been fed lies. Mumbai has no scarcity of houses and the key to the truth lies in using digital technology to unlock the city’s housing potential. |
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| Moving People, Not Cars - Creating Sustainable Transport in Mumbai |
| 2 January 2012 |
| The possibilities of establishing The ORF-RLS seminar on ’Creating Sustainable Transport in Mumbai’ focussed on some key topics of sustainable transport like decongestion of roads, equitable road usage, encouraging people to use public transport, private vehicle ownership, traffic management, parking issues and concerns, etc. |
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| India’s Silent War |
| 26 December 2011 |
| It’s now a battle to the finish. The amazing diversity of the digital world is seen as a threat by a coterie of bureaucrats who are going all out to annihilate it. |
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| The tyranny of the written word |
| 19 November 2011 |
| Digital technologies have the potential to annihilate the rich sources of oral history. It is time that we stopped looking at digital technology with rose-tinted glasses. |
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| Creating an Inclusive Mumbai |
| 10 October 2011 |
| Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Berlin-based Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS), one of Germany’s largest political education institution, jointly organised a day-long roundtable conference on ’Breaking Silos: Creating an Inclusive Mumbai’ in Mumbai. |
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| Goodbye money. Nice knowing you |
| 03 October 2011 |
| Radical transformation in governance can only begin when we are pushed to the wall and have no other option but to take the monster head on |
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| Lokpal and Governance |
| 15 September 2011 |
| The crucial question is this: Is it time to look beyond institutions, which are supposed to repositories of our trust but routinely betray them, and look at means of self governance? |
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| The great Indian strangulation trick |
| 20 July 2011 |
| In a stratagem that would make Sun Tzu proud, the government first velvet-gloved an iron fist and then clamped down hard on digital freedom and enterprise. |
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| De-institutionalise urban planning |
| 09 June 2011 |
| Mumbai today has a plethora of institutions - BMC, MMRDA, MSRDC, MVRC, etc. At last count, there were 23 institutions directly or indirectly ’planning’ for Mumbaikars. There is an urgent need to ’de-institutionalise’ urban planning. |
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| Making Mithi, A River Again |
| 20 May 2011 |
| An ORF study report on the neglect of the Mumbai river Mithi, and how it can be reclaimed effectively was jointly released by Mr. Suresh Prabhu, former Union Minister of Environment and Forests, and Mr. Rajendra Singh, the Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and a noted water activist. |
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