DailyPost 84 LEADING THROUGH CONFLICT As the world grows smaller, the opportunities for conflicts multiply. Mark Gerzon opines that leaders have failed to rise to this challenge. Mediation as concept and practice has become the central theme of today’s leadership theory. The quality of mediation is directly proportional to the skills of the mediator. 9/11 […]
DailyPost 83 HACKTIVISTS To my repeated questions in my lectures on Cyber Security as to who is at the centre of the digital world , the answer is Hacker with an astounding regularity. This speaks of the psyche we are in. Hacktivism got added to this phraseology in recent years as the act of hacking
DailyPost 82 COMPROMISED, YET AGAIN! The recent news of Yahoo breach of 1 billion accounts compromised is the biggest in its infamous history. It throws up completely unpalatable questions both for the users and for the regulatory mechanism. With every subsequent breach, the new normal, is pushed further, which has been happening with an alarming
DailyPost 81 LET’S TALK Talk Shows , I presume got into vogue and gained very high level of popularity based on at least some depth of knowledge of the personalities who were called upon to enlighten both the masses and government. The personalities/experts were to represent all the strands of thought/dimensions of the problem/issue and
DailyPost 80 MEDICAL ETHICS Ethics is the touchstone of medical profession. Since times immemorial there has been a battle of attrition between the ethical and others in the profession and continues even to this day. As per Socrates, any person knows what is truly right will automatically do it. This thought doesn’t seem to the
DailyPost 79 CONVERGENCE UNIVERSITY We have all gone through university education and have fond reminiscences of it but none related to out of box thinking, innovation and the like. Whatever research happens makes its way to the servers for posterity. In this exponential age, an university to keep abreast with the change, herein, Convergence University
DailyPost 78 DATA – ENCRYPTED ALWAYS The process of transforming data from plaintext to ciphertext is encryption and had been used since times immemorial. Today, computer based encryptions hold the very key to our existence in wide & varied ways from national security to credit card frauds. For the citizens, fully secure banking transactions is
DailyPost 77 STANDARDS, UNIFORMITY, CERTIFICATION & AUDIT With standards at its core, the rest of the mechanism ought to fall in place to transform the disparate products, systems, processes & protocols in a large number of sectors. Today, lack of it, gives the feeling that the whole country is an unorganized sector, qualitatively. Maggi has
DailyPost 76 TANGIBLE CONFERENCING The utility or futility of official meetings have long been debated for its outcome and will continue, till the cows come home. Conferences are a notch higher, where the physical presence of the knowledgeable, is presumed to bring forth interchange of ideas and horizontal extension of a thought process which would
DailyPost 75 INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS The traffic safety scenario is not something we can boast of. We have restricted ourselves to the traffic regulation and enforcement and road safety in real sense of the term has not taken place. Vast tracts of the Indian countryside does not have exclusive traffic police stations. In the traffic
DailyPost 74 NATIONAL HOMELAND SECURITY BLUEPRINT The passage of the US PATRIOT ACT and subsequent creation of Department for Homeland Security, DHS, post 9/11 marks a tectonic shift in the response to terrorism, legally, administratively and operationally with a clear cut vision and the capability to deliver. I discussed about its Indian avatar in a
