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Why did the IT major mess up the high-profile government project? No one quite knows the answer. The clues, however, lie in the inherent difficulties in executing tech projects for the government
Under the Biden administration, there’s an urgency building up for regulation. There’s bipartisan support, though there are dissenting voices too. And ironically, Big Tech itself is lobbying for federal rules. Part 3 of this 4-part series decodes the US ecosystem
The EU's two-pronged approach to tech regulation is focused on protecting individual privacy and checking cartelization by Big Tech. Europe's GDPR is considered the gold standard in extensive tech regulation. However, there are unintended consequences and new challenges
China has taken a U-turn from boosting its tech firms as ‘national champions’. In part 1 of this 4-part series on the global moves to rein in Big Tech, we explore the political, economic and social motivations of the Chinese state in clipping the wings of its consumer-tech giants
Hustle Fuel
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) can democratize access, amplify an artist’s, especially a woman’s, voice and choice, and promote allyship
India needs to build a portfolio of research projects—both applied and fundamental research—that are a collaboration between universities, labs and industry. Policy makers are starting to realise the importance of enabling this
This Week in Disruptive Tech
This Week in Disruptive Tech | January 27, 2021: The media business; Sangeet Paul Choudary on empowering workers; Will Clubhouse click in India
The regulatory pushback was long in the making. And it has as much to do with Alibaba's dominance, a wariness of big businesses, and deeper socio-cultural issues
This is a decisive moment in India’s digitisation. The digital rails were put in place over the past decade and 2020 saw a dramatic acceleration of trends that were already happening. Nandan Nilekani and Haresh Chawla discuss the many ways India could ride this train
A new set of winners and losers are poised to emerge from the ashes of the pandemic. And a wall of foreign capital is pouring in to fund a slew of digital startups. A peek into what 2021 portends
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