India’s youth must lead the effort to decongest our roads, here’s how

With rising incomes and car ownership being seen as a status symbol in India, the odds are stacked against...

Safeguarding The Unsuspecting User: App Stores Taken Over By Fraudulent Apps

Tech Policy

The presence of fraudulent apps on app stores poses a grave threat to the burgeoning smartphone user community. But...

Scaling up the ecosystem for job and skill seekers

Skilling, Open Digital Ecosystems

An open digital ecosystem that brings job seekers, employers, skills providers and government agencies can be implemented with ease,...

How the Model Tenancy Act can benefit homeowners and tenants

Property Rights

While the Act is a much-needed reform for India’s housing sector, one hopes that states use this opportunity to...

Balancing privacy and agency: Data governance needs a gender lens

Gender, Tech Policy

As India moves towards an increasingly digital society, how privacy and data governance laws may impact women’s safety and...

Rebuilding lives: Pandemic an intergenerational event, needs targeted relief effort

Author: Sonakshi Chaudhry Published: June 22, 2021 in the Hindu Business Line With the second wave of the Covid-19...

Designing urban employment schemes for women

Seven way to bring women back to the labour force, provide livelihood and income security, and increase women’s agency...

The Data Protection Authority can lay the foundation for a solid digital economy

Data Protection

The Parliament must take cognizance of the far-reaching impact of the Data Protection Law and lay the foundation of...

Social welfare delivery in the digital age

Open Digital Ecosystems

Social registries can help leverage technology to fix delivery gaps, payment leakages, coordination failures, and other inefficiencies that plague...

Time to shift civil society’s priorities: A bitter lesson from the pandemic

Authors: Aparajita Bharti and Rohit Kumar Published: July 09, 2021 in the Indian Express In the wake of the...

Budget 2021-22: What Does it Hold for Women’s Safety, Employment and Life?

While there have been some small announcements for women in the budget, women’s core concerns over food and nutrition,...

An unlikely common strand of 2020 — land and property rights

A continued focus on land and property rights is important — these cross-cutting issues not only impact the growth...