DailyPost 434 CREDIBILITY We have improved economic prosperity but during this period lots of individuals, business enterprises, govts, NGOs, have also lost credibility. Credibility provides sustainability to this ecosystem, makes it self propelling and creates the real ease of business & governance. Credible system has to be built over values; fairness, transparency, probity, merit, predictability […]
DailyPost 433 CONSOLIDATE / VALIDATE KNOWLEDGE “Jugaad” has been the flavour of India, euphemistically called as Frugal Innovation in business school parlance. But in knowledge, frugal doesn’t work, it can lead you to: from suboptimal performance to outright disaster, depending sector / project & time. The small repository of daily skill gets validated, what about
DailyPost 432 CAN WE SALVAGE PRIVACY? Edward Snowden ripped off the lid of Govt. surveillance in the US, the shock US & the world has not been able to recover from. The start of the privacy movement will remain to be Edward Snowden’s lasting legacy. To call his leaks as the 9/11 of Privacy sounds
DailyPost 431 PROFESSIONAL COURAGE Courage we connect to battle & war, to coming out victorious in life challenging situations & freedom struggles, revolutions & the like. Presumably, courage & its utility does not end there. It is the capability to come out successful in challenging situations. Professional courage, thus is the sum total of knowledge,
DailyPost 430 MEDIA – PREJUDGING THE STORY The fourth estate is the bulwark of the democratic mechanism, to bring the truth to the fore, albeit in totality. Emphasis on one point that too not the main one might lead a skewed narrative very difficult to get over. The inherent nature of media is instant dissemination
DailyPost 429 MY WAY OR HIGH WAY A refrain heard over and over again about obstinate persons for whom achieving the goal is inconsequential, if If does not happen their way. This got into folklore the world over, dates back to 1970s & is a predominantly an America idiom. Beneath this mindset is an unveiled
DailyPost 428 A CONFERENCE PROTOCOL Conferencing is a serious business& is rightly presumed to a manifestation of a vibrant intellectual culture. Lots of time & energy goes into it, with months of preparation. Unformatted it remains and the output remains unaudited. Either the funds are to be exhausted or the sponsorship money ( some delegate
DailyPost 427 CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN INSTITUTIONS Preventing child sexual abuse is now the mission of Noble Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi, gives us an indication of magnitude of the problem. Most part of the child’s day happens to be spend in educational institutions mainly. Only of late this issue has hit the roof and issues pertaining
DailyPost 426 AI AGE – JOB SCENARIO The pangs are already being felt, it would aggravate is no brain teaser. Automation is raising its head like a dinosaur, with automation finding a new meaning & dimension, though we have hearing of this for ages. The white collar jobs of today would soon meet a fate
DailyPost 425 AI – FACT SHEET AI is hogging the limelight as no other technology in the recent times with with a mixed bag of optimism & fears. AI as no other technology earlier needed to guided both govts, policy makers & researchers alike, to keep it on track, so that it remains beneficial for
DailyPost 424 AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS SYSTEMS There is always a man in the loop as per defence officials in all deployed weapons. Only low tech booby traps such as land mines work completely autonomous. AI is moving ahead in the direction of fully autonomous systems. If it has bugs or is confusing or for whatever reasons
