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The Department of Space of the Indian government released a draft ‘Space Remote Sensing Policy 2020’ and ‘Norms, Guidelines and Procedures to implement the Space RS Policy 2020’ in November 2020. This blogpost discusses our comments to this draft policy, which we have also submitted to the Department of Space . Introduction: In November 2020,Read more

The Department of Space recently released a draft Spacecom Policy 2020, along with the draft Norms, Guidelines and Procedures for the implementation of the Spacecom Policy, also known as ‘Spacecom NGP’ 2020. This blogpost highlights our comments to these draft policy documents, highlighting some unaddressed areas. We have submitted these comments to the Department ofRead more

I. Introduction In this post, we look at the global regulatory framework with respect to Beyond Visual Line of Sight (“BVLOS”) Operations,[1] with a specific focus at the United States and Europe. We begin by describing the regulatory drone framework in the United States of America and Europe in brief (II), followed by an analysisRead more

I. Introduction The APAC region has been at the vanguard of digitisation, digital innovation, and digital governance.[1] However, differences in legal regimes in the region have meant that any regional or global privacy initiatives such as the APEC Privacy Framework,[2] APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules System (CBPR),[3] or the Osaka Declaration of Digital Economy[4] doRead more

1. What is a social stock exchange? 1.1 Social stock exchanges are dedicated platforms that allow investors to purchase stakes in social enterprises, volunteer groups and welfare organizations. Contrary to most capital market exchanges that allow firms to be listed when they meet certain business criteria (see here for Security and Exchange Board of India’sRead more

1. What is an AI stack? An AI stack is a reference model that lists all infrastructural components that are required to build, train, deploy and scale AI systems. An AI stack is essentially a ‘building’ made up a different ‘tech’ floors placed one over the other with each floor representing one kind of AIRead more

Preliminary The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) is a statutory body that acts as the regulator of the telecommunications sector in India. It was set up by the government of India under section 3 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (“TRAI Act”). The TRAI concerns itself with regulating telecom tariffs, qualityRead more

    1. Preliminary The Maharashtra government recently approved the construction of the world’s first Hyperloop between Pune and Mumbai. This mode of transportation is expected to cut the travel time between the two cities from 3.5 hours to under 35 minutes. This post: (i) presents the background of the project; and (ii) identifies policyRead more

1. Preliminary  1.1 Google hosted the fifth edition of its annual Google for India event on 19 September 2019. Google launched a range of products and services during this event and provided an insight into the work it is doing around technology in India. India’s information technology (“IT”) minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, was also invited byRead more

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