Dubai Declaration adopted to measure progress of SDGs

Launched at the UN World Data forum, it details measures to boost funds for data and statistical analysis for monitoring progress towards …

How IT Threatens Democracy

Social media could be just the start of a slippery slope leading to an Orwellian world controlled by Big Data Brother

Citizen science growing in India: Study

The concept is gaining rapid popularity in India and citizen science projects have considerable potential to contribute to environmental …

A Hippocratic Oath for data science? We’ll settle for a little more data literacy

Part of the issue is the ease with which machine learning algorithms can be applied, making data literacy no longer particular to mathematical …

Existing data privacy protections in India no longer enough: experts

 They call for expediting the process of making a data protection law

Brace for the next big revolution

Big data and algorithms are set to take over the world

Why weather now means business and how it affects you

The first part in a series that looks into how private players now want to monetise meteorological data that is a public resource

India’s research output in science & technology might improve with a push from Centre

Currently, India’s research output in science and technology has been poor as compared to the other major economies of the world

Psychographics: the behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters' minds

How the Cambridge academic Michal Kosinski’s model is able to predict someone’s personality profile just on the basis of 300 likes

Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes, use big data to unlock genetic secrets

If researchers wanted to understand humanity in all its diversity, it would take sequencing thousands or millions of complete genomes. Now, a …

IBM to help China fight air pollution

Beijing city to use IBM forecasting expertise to collect air pollution data

Astronomers used machine learning to mine data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope: What they found

MeerKAT is an array of 64 large antenna dishes that uses radio signals from space to study the evolution of the universe

Scientists store 1,600 beating human hearts in digital form

Experiment aimed at understanding common factors leading to heart diseases

UN rolls out COVID-19 communication tool in Africa

The mobile-based digital public communications platform aims to provide 600-800 million users with latest public health advice 

‘Africa’s COVID-19 tool will also help improve food security, livelihoods’

Information and data are important for evidence-based strategic planning to fight off COVID-19, says Oliver Chinganya, director, Africa …