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Shielding the vulnerable

Tech-aided oral contracts can go a long way in protecting ill-educated unorganised workers from exploitation The unorganised workers in India come from vulnerable social groups that lack education and economic resources. Further lack of legal protection subjects them to marginalisation, allowing them to be a target for exploitation by their employers. One way to protect

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Covering the last mile

Outreach of integrated technology ecosystem at the grassroots level requires a broad-based construct to include the last-mile layer of a connected ecosystem The balance of economic power, globally, is moving away from a physical resource-centric base to an innovation and technology-centric resource base. The countries are being reckoned based on their innovation capabilities. This change

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Empowering the Digital Economy through Budgetary Provisions

Empowering the Digital Economy through Budgetary Provisions and Policy Signalling

Introduction This Union Budget 2024 continued on the path to enabling increased allocation to digital infrastructure, including Digital Platform Infrastructure, thus ensuring that the Indian economy accelerates towards a lower cost, higher efficiency, competitive economy. Let us analyse the budget from an overall perspective, before we deep dive into the digital aspects. The announcement of

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Need of the hour by RK Mitra

Opinion: Need of the hour

The enormity of laying a foundation of public interest technology regime to accelerate mainstreaming and harnessing of emerging technologies is a prominent challenge. We live in a world of technology opulence. Every moment, somewhere some brilliant minds are uncovering innovative applications of technology and trying to announce some new-age applications of their innovations. These technological

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Ed-tech can disrupt the delivery of education

Ed-tech can disrupt the delivery of education

It has the potential to become a bridge between conventional education and industry needs and can become a co-developer in the evolving education ecosystem in India. Education today is no longer confined to the four walls of traditional classrooms and has transcended the physical barriers thanks to the unprecedented technological innovations that have brought in the

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