Startups: Avoiding Regulatory Pitfalls

1. Preliminary  1.1 The 5-Institute budget seminar on ‘The Union Budget 2019-20: Reforms and Development Perspectives’, was held on 22 July 2019. This seminar brought together five policy experts who shared their thoughts on theRead more

 1. Introduction  Algorithmic bias (“AI bias”) is a phenomenon that occurs when “an algorithm produces results that are systematically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning process.” One might be led into believing thatRead more

The Dialogue organized a roundtable in New Delhi on 5th August, 2019, to discuss the way forward for a progressive data protection law that is rights-based and implements the Supreme Court’s principles on privacy. ThisRead more

This post is the first in a series of three posts analysing the information technology (“IT”) ecosystem of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.   Introduction With over 4 billion people online[1], the internet has reshapedRead more

1. Preliminary   1.1 Vishal Misra, a professor of computer science at Columbia University, conducted a seminar titled ‘Routing Money, not Packets’ at The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy on 06 August 2019.Read more

1. Preliminary    1.1. The Ananta Aspen Centre held its second seminar in its ‘Economy & Policy’ series of events on 01 August 2019. The seminar was on the topic, ‘What are the priorities forRead more

Healthcare in India is plagued with problems – a severe shortage of hospitals, doctors and other health service providers; a large section of the population which is poor and does not have access to healthRead more

Preliminary   On 12 November 2018, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”)[1] published the Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for over-the-top (“OTT”) communication services (“Consultation Paper”).[2] This Consultation Paper was deemed necessary due toRead more