Education has been accepted as a project for social and political transformation, with the development of each individual not only for her economic gains, but also for building a…
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Digital data and the pervasive intelligence that it provides about people, and about artefactual and natural phenomenon, is the very basis of a digital economy. With the industrial revolution,…
Going by the chapter on data in the Economic Survey released on July 4, it seemed that the government’s new Budget would carry new thinking on the digital economy. If data of, for, and by, the…
Towards an empowerment scorecard for women in e-commerce: Session at UNCTAD eCommWeek, 04 April 2019
Nandini Chami was a panelist at the session: 'Towards an empowerment scorecard for women in e-commerce' during UNCTAD e-Commerce week in Geneva, Switzerland.
The pane deliberated…
Earlier this week, Facebook deleted over 700 pages in India for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” and “spam”. Most of these pages were related to the Congress and the BJP. The action, evidently…
There are two ways to look at the digital economy. One is just as progressive automation of production processes that has been going on for many years, now hitting a whole new level. Another is…
Every once in a while, there is the high optics drama about a woman celebrity or public persona who has been trolled, and then, predictably, the dust settles. But make no mistake. This is but the…
Teacher agency is an indicator of teacher development, it is also a cause for teacher development. The article aims to explore the role digital…
In this article published in the Economic & Political Weekly (12 January 2019), Amrita Vasudevan revisits current debates on the liability of internet intermediaries in India, in the context…
It is becoming increasingly evident that the far reaching impacts of machine learning and AI demand immediate attention to the digitalisation of society itself. AI is not…