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This brief analyses the regulatory, security and ethical challenges facing states and the international community regarding emerging technologies in biotechnology, focusing on the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system and artificial gene synthesis. It highlights the inadequacy of current mechanisms such as export control regimes to regulate these emerging technologies because of a fundamental shift in the nature of challenges posed and an altered globa

The rapid uptake of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military in the past couple decades has been accompanied by a slow but gradual build-up in attempts to understand how these AI systems work to achieve better results in military operations. The idea behind what is called ‘eXplainable AI’ (XAI), and the technologies driving it, are a manifestation of this trend. The question, however, is if XAI in its current form is the solution

आने वाले वर्षों में OCEN ज़बरदस्त सफलता हासिल कर जन-जन तक नि�

With the number of data breaches multiplying rapidly over the years, India must ensure the timely migration to PQC algorithms across all sectors, part

Advances in technology, the shifting sands of the global nuclear energy market, and the extant standards and practices surrounding the monitoring of radioactive materials raise important questions about the future of nuclear security. Technological advancements have enabled the retrieval of radioactive materials from unconventional sources and made fuel fabrication easier. The emergence of new players in the nuclear energy market also flags conce

Digital financial services have benefits but pose privacy risks that harm consumers, merchants, markets, and nations alike. Some payments systems in India suffer from vulnerabilities because they were not prospectively designed on the basis of the ‘privacy by design’ principle. At the back-end, the centralised storage of data is risky. At the front-end, faulty capture devices enable data misuse. Across the middle mile, data is transmitted wit

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, there has been a surge in cases of online child sexual abuse and exploitation (OCSAE) in many parts of the world. This brief discusses the cases of India and Australia. It examines their efforts to combat the increased incidence of OCSAE resulting from greater use of the internet as movement was restricted in response to the pandemic. The brief focuses on India and Australia as bo

The application of emerging technologies in humanitarian assistance has increased in recent years, and they have proven effective in delivering life-saving interventions to populations in need. In a fast-changing technological landscape, the use of such tools is only expected to increase further. At the same time, however, the use of technologies brings certain challenges, such as misuse of data and the spread of misinformation. This brie

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly proliferating the healthcare landscape and has immense promise for improving health outcomes in a resource-constrained setting like India. With emerging technology still finding its footing in the healthcare industry in the country, there are systemic roadblocks to hurdle before AI can be made transformative up to the last mile of public health. AI also carries immense challenges for India’s mostly t

उभरती हुई टेक्नोलॉजी और चौथी औद्योगिक क्रांति, क्या भारत

Despite being the ‘factory of the world,’ many of China’s industrial sectors are energy-intensive and have low value-add. At the same time, global firms are increasingly moving towards sophisticated low-cost manufacturing techniques for higher productivity gains. As a result, the Chinese Communist Party is keen to upgrade the country’s industrial base to compete in the more advanced segments, such as information technology, through the �

Global data governance is at a crossroads—intensely contested by nations and industry players seeking to shape rules of the road to benefit their strategic interests. India has placed itself at the heart of the battle, its foreign policy vision fuelled by the principle of ‘data sovereignty’—a broad notion that supports the assertion of sovereign writ over data generated by citizens within a country’s physical boundaries. While this visi

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the formal schooling system in India, as it has across the globe, causing massive pressure on the online education sector. This paper analyses the state of digitalised education in India. It outlines current government guidelines on digital-mode schooling, and uses the case of Maharashtra’s five-year-old efforts at digitalising government schools to gauge preparedness for implementing the guidelines. It highl

अब जबकि भारत सेमीकंडक्टर का अगला बड़ा केंद्र बनने की दिश�

Human civilisation is at a new moment of transition across social norms, economics, governance, and the environment, and is facing the dawn of a new era of inter-planetary human migration (to Mars). In the future, historians will look to the first half of the 21st century to tell the story of how these changes started and unfolded through five domains of conflict. These domains touch on the unravelling of governance structures in need of

Digital spaces are becoming increasingly vital for public deliberation on issues of shared interest, including during electoral campaigns. This brief examines the types of discourse on social media platforms that electoral candidates engage in. It studies the content of the online campaigns and their potential impact on voter education, and recommends countermeasures against the threat of uninformed and unethical online narratives that only

Cross-border payment is one part of the banking sector that has yet to benefit from recent progress in digitalisation. Most international transactions are still processed using a 600-year-old correspondent banking system devised by the Medici.[1] However, this system of manual entry of transactions is not a scalable solution for the burgeoning digital payments space. While this may seem like an issue for institutions, a huge segment of the popul

निकट भविष्य में अंतरिक्ष के प्रशासन की कमी एक समस्या साब�

प्रशिक्षण के अलावा भारतीय भारतीय सशस्त्र बलों को इंटरने�

अफ्रीका में डिजिटल विभाजन को तब तक नहीं पाटा जा सकता है जब

डिजिटल क्षेत्र व्यापार को बहुत बड़ी शक्ति देता है. सीमा प�

AI सिस्टम के लिए कानूनी व्यक्तित्व को लेकर सवाल उठ रहे हैं.

राष्ट्रीय सरहदों से परे ISPs के उभार से संकेत साफ़ हैं कि मह�

राष्ट्रीय सरहदों से परे ISPs के उभार से संकेत साफ़ हैं कि मह�

भारत में जैसे-जैसे फेशियल रिकग्निशन टेक्नॉलॉजी (FRT) की सहा�

भारत को एक जोड़ने वाली शक्ति के रूप में देखा जाता है जो नई �

एलएलएम मध्ये प्रचंड मूल्य निर्मिती क्षमता असल्याने, या स

चूंकि आर्टिफ़िशियल इंटेलिजेंस (AI) बहुत तेज़ी से विकसित हो

सार्वजनिक डिजिटल बुनियादी ढांचे को महज़ ‘प्रौद्योगिकीय

भारत में वीडियो गेमिंग उद्योग में तेजी से बढ़ोतरी के बाव�

मानवीय संगठनों को डेटा सुरक्षा और रक्षा को प्राथमिकता दे

कोरोना महामारी के दौरान श्रीलंका, नॉर्वे और युगांडा में DH

अनेक फ़ायदों से लैस होने के बावजूद क्वांटम प्रौद्योगिकी

आज जब तमाम देश और बड़ी तकनीकी कंपनियां क्वॉन्टम कंप्यूटि

आर्टिफ़िशियल इंटेलिजेंस द्वारा तैयार मीडिया से विज्ञाप

सामूहिक तौर पर इस दशक में सामने आए संकटों से डिजिटल प्रौद�

डिजिटल कनेक्टिविटी किसी भी लिहाज से एक वरदान से कम नहीं ह�

कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता आणि मशीन लर्निंग तंत्रांवर अवलंबून राहताना, माहितीची कमतरता अथवा चुकीची माहिती हे सर्वात मोठे आव्हान असणार आहे.

डेटा उल्लंघनाच्या संदर्भातील संकेत वर्षानुवर्षे वेगान�

तकनीकी क्षेत्र में तानाशाही हुकूमतों की तेज़ प्रगति के म

बिग टेक कंपनियों के एकाधिकार से राष्ट्रीय संप्रभुता, स्व

भारत को भविष्य में एक प्रौद्योगिक शक्ति के रूप में सामने �

आज के दौर में जब अभूतपूर्व तकनीकी और डिजिटल उन्नति की शुर�