DailyPost 556 BIG DATA IN GOVERNMENT In the recently concluded World Economic Forum at Davos, the general tenor of the discussions was towards the impetus Big Data would provide to Artificial Intelligence. Whosoever has stockpile data would be the front runner. Between China & US, China is the likely owner because of Govt. owned huge […]
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DailyPost 549 ALGORITHMS OF DECEIT Deceit Extraordinaire play was being enacted the world over to a gullible and blind audience. The IT majors had a field day creating algorithms of deceit and making billions flow out of it. That world class brains creating products potent enough to change the world for all times, would practice
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DailyPost 544 LAW TECHNOLOGY INTERFACE Law, governance & management decided the fate of technology. Not any more. Technology now comes as blitzkrieg & control systems will start from the basic understanding that law, governance & management has to align to technology. Presumably, all such recent legislation’s start with this standpoint. How far they can take
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DailyPost 543 FACEBOOK FACE OFF ”If you can’t face the world, facebook,” adage is sad commentary on people, who want to live off Facebook, as if the brick & mortar world did not exist. The wheel has taken full circle, if we go by the first reaction of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, post the Cambridge
DailyPost 540 TECHNOLOGY – PSYCHOLOGY COMPLEX Technology is a double edged tool, the first adopters being high tech criminals & also those who masquerade as geeks, solving problems of reach & influence through the tool of technology enabled manipulation. If Edward Snowden brought Privacy to world centre stage, Cambridge Analytica has taken the lid of
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DailyPost 538 “PRIVACY SOLUTIONS” The point is that politics can undermine technology, and also that technology can undermine politics. Neither trumps the other.” said Bruce Schreier. In the ongoing stalemate the user is the football. There are many ways we can protect data & defend ourselves from surveillance. It has to happen at different levels.
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DailyPost 529 HAPPY WOMEN’s DAY The world celebrates International Women’s Day today on 8th of March. Bringing the world together for a cause has been one singular achievement for this movement. While we celebrate the iconic women & milestones achieved with the elan it deserves, the events & the gloss takes over. The publicity which
DailyPost 527 OVERSIGHT MECHANISM While all organisations have their systems of reviews, meetings, supervision, inspection and the like, when incidents happen, we see people running helter skelter and more so the ones who are tasked to handle such situations. An overall oversight watchdog comes into play. They have the understanding of the functioning of the
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DailyPost 516 FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY Democracies have arrived the world over after the Second World War; which was the product of the totalitarian regimes. The genesis dates back to the Westminster Model; the parliamentary system of government developed in the United Kingdom. The nations brush with democracy have been varied & different functioning models can be
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DailyPost 515 VISUALISATION The future is not ours to see, what will be, will be. Some can see it partially & few others can see it with clarity. It propels grit & the determination to go for it. This rare capability of a human being is visualisation. To be able to see the result of
DailyPost 477 INFORMED CONSENT Informed consent emanated from the domain of Medical Ethics, is getting into varied areas. It’s firstly because of the complexity of businesses; technology, profits, mindsets & secondly, the customer needs to understand the product / services & its terms. There is much beyond the written word. What is taken as a