June 7, 2023

Truckin'

We use ride hailing applications for personal transport as well as the delivery of packages in the city. How come we have not used the same solutions for national transport.

May 31, 2023

Rule Makers

We have, always accepted the governance frameworks that have already been implemented elsewhere in the world. With DPI we can be rule makers not rule takers.

May 24, 2023

Built-in Bias

When healthcare is powered by artificial intelligence and smart devices, we must ensure that everyone benefits. We need open, transparent algorithms.

May 17, 2023

Ill-Advised Advisory

Regulators believe that the moment a new technology comes around they need to flex their regulatory muscle to wrestle it under control. In most instan...

May 10, 2023

Moderating Systems

Content moderation is a wicked problem. This is particularly so given that our approach to solving it hasn’t changed much from what we used to do when...

May 3, 2023

Gendered Digital Inclusion

While India was never going to be able to take banks to all its villages it has done remarkably good job in taking banking services to the last mile. ...

April 26, 2023

AI Has a GDPR Problem

Generative AI violates many of GDPR's core tenets. But is the problem with the technology or with the fact that privacy law today simply does not account for modern technologies?

April 12, 2023

Pro-Innovation AI Regulation

Generative AI has shown us that AI can be adaptive and autonomous and if we are to regulate it using traditional paradigms we will fail to keep it in check We need a new pro-innovation approach.

April 5, 2023

Inflection Point

As much as India has achieved through the course of its DPI journey, there are problems that remain to be solved. The current moment in artificial intelligence suggests that AI might hold the key.

March 29, 2023

Designing Data Governance

Privacy by design calls for data governance to be designed into technology systems in which they operate. But if we can embed it into the code of digital public infrastructure that is deployed at scale through society, it could be far more effective.