DailyPost 762 INDIAN SMEs & GDPR Indian big businesses have been making efforts to get GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliant, the European Union’s Data Protection Law & presumably most of the companies have made the grade. The harsh penal provisions can put any company in the doldrums. The initial hiccups have now been sorted
DailyPost 761 BANKING TRANSFORMATION Think of a few years back and try to remember the experience you had with the banks. It has totally transformed over the years. How many of us have visited the banks in last couple of years. There are millennials who have never visited a bank might be but for opening
DailyPost 760 KNOWLEDGE CRITICAL MASS In world full of exabytes of data, how many of us reach the Knowledge Critical Mass. Do vast majority of struggle with the data / information all around us or are they able to make the best use of it. Has the learning curve vastly changed in the Information Age.
DailyPost 759 DIGITAL COLUMBUS Times change, the core methodologies of growth of human civilization remain the same. Christopher Columbus discovered the viable sailing route to the Americas, he thought he had discovered a route to the Far East. Explorer, navigator and colonist, this is precisely the process the world is in today. The difference is
DailyPost 758 ‘EXPLAINABLE AI’ (XAI) The human civilization has progressed on logic, reasoning and causality but with the onset of AI there is an arena where all the above is presumed but cannot be explained. Neural networks on which Artificial Intelligence edifice sustains still baffles researchers. The neural nets are ‘black boxes,’ after having been
DailyPost 757 NON / RESPONSIVE From the innocuous smile to be the first one to help in a medical emergency to consistently supporting a needy person, being responsive is being human. Stretching is logically, the opposite would be mostly true. Creating an empirical responsiveness matrix of a human being, would give the responsive psychology of
DailyPost 756 FAIR PLAY Due process of law, due diligence, rule of law, level playing field, flat world are the outward manifestations of fair play or a sense of fair play, which is supposed to be ingrained in our character, in the modern, civilized & democratic world. It is the cornerstone of a world based
DailyPost 755 APPLICATION BLACKLISTING Terms blacklist and blacklisting have long been used for different purposes by governments against organizations and also business enterprises with dubious / inferior quality activities and operations. It means that such organizations don’t deserve to exist as per basic parameters of civilized human existence. This concept got into the IT world
DailyPost 754 ‘THE KNOWLEDGE ILLUSION’ A term referred to by Yuval Noah Harari in his book 21 Lessons of the 21st Century, was coined by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernback. He explains this concept in a lucid & contextual fashion. “We think we know a lot, even though individually we know very little, because we
DailyPost 753 2018 THREAT VECTORS If something really changes at a breathtaking speed in the present day world, its Cyber Security Threat Vectors. There is no better place of knowing it than the now iconic RSA Conference every year. You get to know where to direct your energies in the current year based on the
DailyPost 752 BREAKING POINT What is your breaking point? The level / point where the sustainability of an idea, process, preparation, effort, work, action cannot be taken further is the breaking point. Whatever might be the causation thereof, the statement of fact is that, the farther off the breaking point, more are the chances of
