We are delighted to announce the launch of the ‘Digital Technology Policy for India’s USD 5 Trillion Economy’, an IAMAI report authored by Ikigai Law (available here). The report was launched in New Delhi on 24 September 2019 by Sunil Jain (managing editor, Financial Express), Baijayant Panda (national vice president, BJP), Aruna Sundararajan (former secretary,Read more
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1. Preliminary 1.1 On 12 September 2019, Facebook and the Ananta Aspen Centre organised an event titled “New rules for the internet – Shaping the digital economy”, with Sir Nicholas Clegg (Facebook vice president of global affairs and communications) as the key speaker and Mr. Baijayant Panda (Bharatiya Janata Party national vice president), as theRead more
1. Preliminary 1.1 ‘Budget Speeches Analysis’ is Ikigai Law’s project initiated to (i) identify trends in the word frequency[1] of different keywords in India’s budget speeches, and (ii) compare them against trends in different economic parameters particular to India. This project applies simple analytical tools to detect patterns and derive fresh insights from budget speeches, whichRead more
1. Preliminary 1.1 ‘Budget Speeches Analysis’ is Ikigai Law’s project initiated to (i) identify trends in the word frequency[1] of different key words in India’s budget speeches, and (ii) compare them against trends in different economic performance parameters particular to India. Essentially, this project attempts to apply simple analytical tools to detect patterns in budget speeches,Read more
1. Preliminary 1.1‘Budget Speeches Analysis’ is Ikigai Law’s project initiated to (i) identify trends in the word frequency[1] of different words in India’s budget speeches, and (ii) compare them against trends in India’s economic parameters. Essentially, this project attempts to apply simple analytical tools to detect patterns in budget speeches, which would otherwise not beRead 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 that artificial intelligence (“AI”) based tools should produce unbiased results given they are machine-driven; however, this myth needs to be bustedRead more
1. Preliminary The union budget of India for the year 2019-2020 was presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 05 July 2019. This was the National Democratic Alliance – II (“NDA-II”) government’s first budget. Shortly after Sitharaman’s presentation of the budget, IndiaSpend, a non-profit organization that uses open data to analyse India’s socio-economic issues, publishedRead more
Overview Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form the next Union government in India. In election results announced on 23 May 2019, the BJP and its allies, which together constitute the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), secured 353 out of 542 seats in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament; also called theRead more
Preliminary On 1st May, 2018, the Department of Telecommunications under the Ministry of Communications rolled out the draft National Digital Communications Policy, 2018 (“Draft Policy”). Following a round of public consultations on the draft policy, the Union Cabinet approved the final National Digital Communications Policy, 2018 (“Policy”), on September 26, 2018. This Policy, whichRead more