It is important to harness informed technology so that we protect against and mitigate the very risks that are likely to play spoilsport in our attempt to strengthen the efficacy and accountability of government functioning.
Only by combining both AI and communities will higher education be relevant and prepare students for the adventures of the fourth industrial revolution. ...
When looking at tools that most of us use every day, like the internet, we need to take a step back and consider their larger impact.
New Delhi must avoid getting caught up in tired existing machinations and instead forge a new path for itself that prioritises Indian strategic interests.
Social media platforms were ostensibly conceived to democratise ideas, not stifle them. What is at stake is if the US’s friends continue to trust the products and services coming out of the country.
Online civic life across developing and developed countries has been adversely affected, with serious consequences to the offline world.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has created complexity in the international power model of state sovereignty.
The contours of global supply chains in the 2020s and beyond will be shaped by the evolving understandings of “trust.” ...
The ease and speed with which cyberweapons can be recycled heighten risks in ways that are incomparable to other domains of conflict.
We need to be in a better position to do our homework and genuinely assess the environmental impact of digital technologies, including AI.
It is a moment of awakening, as we are still suffering a pandemic that made “digital” the daily real — exposing divides and flaws, glitches and abuse of power from tech companies, and discriminatory designs and authoritarian uses of apps and tracking systems.
In order to safeguard against function creep, governments and platforms must be transparent about how and where automated tools are used.
The Competition Commission of India has treated data protection as a non-price competition parameter and found a compromise on this parameter by the dominant social media app, both exploitative and exclusionary.
Manya Khanna is a Research Intern at the Observer Research Foundation ...
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