The accelerating remote work culture born during COVID-19 is bound to further propel the growth of flexible workspaces, especially since several employers are looking at remote working as a long-term practice.
The debates around work and the welfare architecture in India need to be urgently reframed and translated into practical reform.
As technology evolves and new solutions emerge, governments have taken greater interest in regulatory matters, particularly in Indo-Pacific economies with nascent domestic tech industries.
When technology becomes important for a country’s development, governments should balance the advance of technology with openness and autonomy.
Tensions between government and industry over encryption, vulnerabilities and privacy are now compounded by a geo-technological rupture between the world’s two largest powers.
The workplace of the future must acknowledge and embrace a more well-rounded conception of the home and work, including valuing the full range of experiences and responsibilities that all workers face.
Digital public goods can be developed for rapid pandemic assessment and response. India’s experience with COVID-19 must be recorded and analysed, and systems developed based on this analysis.
Ad-hoc research initiatives and infrequent budgetary allocations would not suffice if India is to develop a vibrant research ecosystem.
If we are empowered enough, we can see order in chaos and focus our efforts on social innovation to ‘make things happen’ — but above all, we learn to be a community.
Whole brain function is required to support not only analysis functions — where we zoom in to see the detail — but also synthesis functions where we zoom out to see larger patterns — when we look at the bigger picture, the why, or purpose ...
The new normal would be about reinventing the realms. How would the cities be further planned and developed in the future?
Digital technologies are quickly becoming an everyday necessity. What can we do to bridge this gap of inequality and establish digital technology as a right for all?
There continues to be speculation and worry about what will happen next and about when the pandemic will end and what the world will look like after. Nothing right now can be certain but the rise in surveillance has been a clear consequence.
No technological solution is free of the possibility of negative outcomes and unintended consequences. It is possible that small data-based CRM for MSMEs can be used by criminals selling illegal products.
The Covid-19 pandemic was a new threat that demanded fast decision-making, innovations, flexibility, and a new way of “doing” government.
Because of the pandemic, shared vehicles are edging into the mainstream, slowly overtaking public transport and private cars as the favoured way of travelling. This could change people’s perception of transport in the long run, and make them more open to new ideas and commuting ...
How is the discrepancy between the Chinese government’s own words and the statistics it released is so pronounced? The answer to this question can be traced back to World War II.
Given the complexities and the possible excess of making the Internet (more) fragmented, should we consider doing more than just demanding liability from the platform?
Guidelines on public mobility may be needed to control community transmission. However, when this is carried out in a manner that evokes fear without taking into account the socio-economic contexts and needs of people, then it is not the disease being controlled, but rather the ...
Tigran Yepremyan is the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and an Associate Professor of World History and IR at the Yerevan State University, Armenia. ...
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Sambit Mishra is an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer currently posted as the Chief Executive Officer of the Zila Panchayat Korba Chhattisgarh. He has an academic background in Engineering, having graduated with a Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) in Biological ...
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