Do states gain maturity in their nature of governance? What if the nature of governance had been faulty and it matured in the same mould. This may sound weird but this is the abyss large numbers of South Asian states have created for themselves. Down the memory lane, Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and sociologist used […]
First information report (FIR) as it is popularly known, is the act of registration of a criminal case, as soon as the information of the offence is received by the police station. It sets the criminal law in motion and it is a legal safeguard for the individual. The offence becomes an offence against the
If the government tech could have been as slick as its advertisements India would have been a different place to live. Ease of life and ease of business are great catchphrases, but if you struggle through the rigmarole of government tech enabled services, which you possibly cannot avoid, you are in for a nightmare. The
What is the main task of an IT product company, besides the given; developing pathbreaking products and making a market for it, which did not exist. Maximizing profit would be the next priority as their history shows that there are no limits to their profit and every company wants to join that league. Above and
Do you have faith in the systems you run? The faith is twofold; one is the capability to run it efficiently and second is, if you land on the wrong side of it, will it give you a fair deal? I think it is an abysmal failure on both counts. While most of our systems
We have grown up with Moore’s law so to say, as we have seen and experienced the digital world grow by leaps and bounds for over 50 years now. It was in 1965 that Moore’s law was introduced by Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel. He predicted that the number of transistors on a microchip
A fire at the official residence of a High Court judge, has put the whole of the Indian judicial administration under fire. The dispensers of justices, the ones who are supposed to be the modern day avatars of the practice “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion,” are now forced to handle one of their ilk.
How a product will perform no one knows, is what any OEM will tell you. There are many slips between the cup and lip, when it comes to commercial success of any product. This might still remain the case even if the product is for free and might be world class. Who would accept a
For the layman and the uninitiated, AI is the box of wisdom and knowledge, which provides all that you require, with no effort or complexity at the back end, delivering the highest level of precision, which is ready to use. Can AI ever reach the seamless knowledge nirvana in everything the world has to offer,
Post the invention of the internet, for sure the unleashing of the ChatGPT to the world, has been the most momentous moment. While the world got hooked to the conversational GPT, the technical, compute and business model of OpenAI and other more established behemoths was widely accepted as the only model of AI development. The
Ramping up human and technical resources is an ongoing exercise in our battle against cyber crimes. Recently, Karnataka appointed 16 cyber technicians, the details of the capabilities are not known in the public domain. Will they be able to match the harsh ground level requirements being dictated by the international cyber criminals? Or will we
