December 27, 2023

Looking Back on 2023

2023 was the year in which DPI assumed its rightful place on the world stage. It was also the year in which artificial intelligence came into its own...

December 20, 2023

The Big Telecom Reform

The Telecommunications Bill 2023 offers a radical new approach to telecom regulation. It replaces the license-based regime with a more legislative approach

December 13, 2023

AI for the Global South

The European Union has agreed to a new law to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) by imposing transparency requirements on general AI models and st...

December 6, 2023

Human Writing

When man invented writing he enabled the creation of a hive-mind that eventually lead to the establishment of civilisation as we know it. The advent of large language models has exponentially expanded that hive-mind but has it done so at the cost of our humanity?

November 29, 2023

Governing the Governors

The events surrounding OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman highlight the challenges in establishing effective governance structures that can appropriately ...

November 22, 2023

No-one Left Behind

To ensure equitable access to digital public infrastructure (DPI), it's crucial to address the digital divide. This involves extending connectivity infrastructure globally, reimagining digital systems for offline accessibility, and enhancing digital literacy. Innovations like offline Aadhaar enrolme

November 1, 2023

Pandora's Box

New scientific breakthroughs - like CRISPR in the case of genetic engineering - brings with it unforeseen challenges. Technologies originally intended for good can easily be subverted for harm. We cannot prevent such harms from taking place solely by enacting regulation to contain such knowledge onc

October 18, 2023

The Third Way

The India approach to data governance is an exception to the different approaches that currently exist for data governance - the US and Chinese on the one hand and the European on the other,

October 11, 2023

No Time for False Modesty

There have been some criticisms about the actual impact of India's financial inclusion achievements. But this is not time for false modesty.

October 4, 2023

Solar Geo Engineering

There is a new urgency to find alternate and innovative solutions to climate change. Solar geoengineering is one such solution but it is not without its risks