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Data Protection Bill: Don’t Mule the Unicorn
- Start-Ups, Tech Policy
With regulatory ambiguity on key issues, the Indian startup story is at a crossroads today. While the market seems bullish about their prospects, we risk tempting Indian founders to register their startups outside India to avoid onerous compliance.
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Root Out the Prejudices in the Hindu Succession Act
- Gender, Property Rights
We owe it to India’s daughters and their parents the same right to care for each other and be cared for by each other as we have for sons in our society, in life or in death.
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Covid-19: Prioritise Gender-Responsive Recovery
- Economy, Gender
This International Women’s Day is a reminder that we must strive for a gender-inclusive economic recovery and not lose the strides made in women’s empowerment in the last few decades on account of the pandemic.
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Filling the Physical Gaps in India’s Digital Push
- BUDGET, Public Service Delivery, Tech
India has embarked on a unique journey of tech led service delivery and this is reinforced through commitments in the 2022 Union Budget. It is now critical to shift the focus to the ‘non-tech’ layers of our digital infrastructure, by prioritizing principles of data protection, universal access and accountability.
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Bridging the Digital Divide in Education
- Education, Tech
By connecting what already exists, the National Digital Educational Architecture (NDEAR) can reimagine the education ecosystem for deploying tailored EdTech solutions speedily, sustainably and at population scale.
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Will India Pay for RBI’s Hurry?
- Banking, Tech
Central bank’s no-card-storage rule can severely disrupt digital payments in 2022.
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India’s Youth Must Lead the Effort to Decongest Our Roads, Here’s How
- Transport Policy, Youth
With rising incomes and car ownership being seen as a status symbol in India, the odds are stacked against policymakers trying to find solutions to this problem.
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Safeguarding The Unsuspecting User: App Stores Taken Over By Fraudulent Apps
- Tech, Tech Policy
The presence of fraudulent apps on app stores poses a grave threat to the burgeoning smartphone user community. But removing such apps is not an easy problem to solve
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Scaling Up the Ecosystem for Job and Skill Seekers
- Open Digital Ecosystems, Skilling
An open digital ecosystem that brings job seekers, employers, skills providers and government agencies can be implemented with ease, with a little help from government and technology.
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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 unlock the economic value of vacant housing and increase access to good quality housing, for all demographics.
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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 agency on the internet should not come as an afterthought
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Rebuilding Lives: Pandemic an Intergenerational Event, Needs Targeted Relief Effort
- Pandemic, Social Justice
Perhaps the most fundamental first step towards pandemic relief is the collection of granular data, which can build a path to recovery.