When governments lose character, citizens getting crushed becomes the new normal. Stampede to the nature we saw last week can be termed as the most visible manifestation of the same. Bangalore Stampede is not only symptomatic of the governance paralysis, which on a regular basis is very meticulously camouflaged, but by what is spoken and […]
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While the basic principles of democracy remain the same, how it unfolds in every country is different. This is the reason why two democratic countries can look and function in a radically different manner. Given the recent experiences in different countries it can also happen that the same democratic country can look, feel and operate
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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
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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
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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
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THE EASIEST WAY OUT! Does the topic make anything ring in your mind? What does it explain the best? Does it not sound like a process so common and familiar to all of us? Is it not an antidote of all what we keep talking about day in and day out. You have guessed it
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DailyPost 3053 BEYOND HUMANS AND HUMANITY India’s Political Homo Sapiens How India’s Political Home Sapiens have been able to cross over the human cognition and emotions barrier can be a case study for the perpetual sufferers of democratic India. That humanity is not a factor in literally anything in a democratic nation, which was supposedly
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DailyPost 3051 ZERO GOVERNANCE! You would have seen the FMCG flamboyant advertisements of different governments. God knows how much of it has touched your life, making a similar difference, in the manner portrayed by the characters in the ads. Between the electioneering, manifesto and these ads is the whole life cycle of governance. We have
DailyPost 3046 AGENT AI FOR GOVERNMENT IBM Watson brought AI into public knowledge, was unveiled in 2011. It was developed on the game show Jeopardy, where it defeated human champions. Later it evolved into a powerful AI platform used for various applications. The story of Demis Hassbis and DeepMind is all too well known. The
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DailyPost 2987 CAN WE NOT SORT OUT THE MULE ACCOUNT MESS? Festering wounds is a part of our destiny but that could extend to business and technical solutions also is certainly not a natural corollary. Mule accounts seems to have fallen into this trap. Nicknamed as mule accounts, these accounts are used to siphon off
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DailyPost 2986 REGULATORY PARALYSIS The general administration governance mechanism was running short of providing effective regulation, supervision and direction to a large number of specialised areas of our functioning, on which depended the growth engine of the nation. Few specialist regulators have always been there as a part of legal mandate like RBI but many
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