Chapter Seventy-Eight: Deadlines, Deadliness and Aadhaar
This edition of TypeRight looks into some recent updates on the Aadhaar push for welfare benefits and how the deadlines turn deadly. Read More
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Chapter Seventy-seven: Teaching AI is the past, now AI Teaches
In previous chapters of TypeRight we have talked about the necessity of teaching the impacts of AI to the public and the necessity of advanced computer education including AI/ML tools to more students, but today we deal with something else – it is AI that is teaching us. We also have a conversation with ChatGPT […]
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Chapter Seventy-six: Leave No Voice Behind – an Open, free and secure digital future for all
In an earlier edition of TypeRight, we spoke of the UN’s Global Digital Compact that was one of the decisions of the recent Internet Governance Forum – and how the Digital Empowerment Foundation was planning to conduct the consultation of the same in India. Read More
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Chapter Seventy-Five: NREGA + Aadhaar linked payment = Exclusion
In an earlier TypeRight, we discussed the issues surrounding digital, app-based attendance for the country’s employment program, the NREGA, and how the lack of digital access leads to exclusions. Today we look at a recent update on the issue: Aadhaar-based payment scheme on the NREGA. Read More
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Chapter Seventy-Four: Without last-mile connectivity, digital policies are anti-poor
Indian Internet Governance Forum conducted a series of workshops to discuss the multi-stakeholders approach to achieve meaningful last-mile connectivity which has affected people across different age groups and gender, especially from marginalised sections of the society, although India is the second largest user of the internet. Osama Manzar, Founder and Director of Digital Empowerment Foundation, […]
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Chapter Seventy-Three: Forcing the digital onto the poorest
This week, we look into the several issues surrounding a forced digitalisation in the country’s employment guarantee scheme, and how it leads to even more exclusions. Read More
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Talking Data to the Fourth Pillar Workshop
In 2017, a landmark Supreme Court judgment pronounced privacy as a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Indian constitution. It also recommended the Government to put in place a data protection regime that would balance individual interest and legitimate concerns of the state such as protecting national security, encouraging innovation, and distribution of social […]
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DEF’s Submission for UN Global Digital Compact
Following the consultations held as part of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, the UN adopted a declaration that pledged the participation of all stakeholders in deliberations on digital cooperation. In response to the Declaration, Secretary-General Guterres’ report, Our Common Agenda, proposes a Summit of the Future with a technology track […]
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Digital Youth Writers Fellowship
Youth Ki Awaaz as a fellow member is running a digital youth writers fellowship and will publish 100 essays on topics based around digital inclusion and data rights. Further, they will use their online platform to spread awareness through the voice of the young people on topics around Digital inclusion and Data Rights. To know […]
