Dead on the information highway

Why farmers today need to take up precision farming

The century’s most valuable innovation in farm management is based on using Information and Communications Technologies

A friend in need

Kenya’s GDP contracted 0.3% in 2020, courtesy COVID-19: Economic Survey

The Government of Kenya has recognised the information, communications and technology sector as a key contributor to the country’s GDP

Quantum computers: how they work

Scientists are achieving major breakthroughs in the construction of computers that will function in a totally new way

Developing economies risk exclusion as ‘age of AI’ dawns

Artificial intelligence is set to be a multi-trillion dollar industry by 2030, but developing economies risk falling behind unless changes are …

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

Africa must diversify its exports to survive further economic shocks: Report

African countries can overcome commodity dependence by investing in high knowledge-intensive services and improving competitiveness in the …

How to resolve Karnataka water crisis

At the peak of Karnataka’s water crisis, the state’s deputy chief minister, G Parameshwara, made a desperate suggestion. He said the …

A technology-driven circular business model is essential to reach climate change goals

Adopting a “product-as-a-service” business model is one of the most impactful changes we can make today

How IT, communication can boost sustainable farming in India

Use of messaging services, web-based applications, capacity building and encouragement of public-private partnership can enable farmers to get …

New book presents untold stories of societal impact of science & technology in independent India

Indian National Science Academy, an apex body of Indian scientists, has come out with a book that shares unknown developments which made …

Brace for the next big revolution

Big data and algorithms are set to take over the world

The imperatives of governing world’s forests

For the past eight years, leaders of public forest agencies from the world’s most forested countries have been taking part in a series of …

WTO Ministerial Conference: India objects to agriculture draft text

India believes that some members are pushing for an accelerated phasing out of agriculture export subsidy

World Cities Day: How humans and robots can co-exist in cities

Robots are taking on more tasks in the world’s cities but create more challenges for policymakers

COVID-19 impact: It’s time to reimagine work culture and transform cities

The pandemic has taught us to rethink lifestyles and question our need to travel to work every day

Google, Facebook officials exempted from personal appearance in trial court

High court defers hearing till May in view of similar ongoing cases in Supreme Court

Battle for the Internet

As the Internet becomes the public square and the marketplace of our world, it is increasingly becoming a contested terrain. Its potential for …

Enforcing e-waste rules a challenge

Loopholes in the rules make it difficult to regulate informal sector dealing in e-waste and bulk consumers of electronic goods

US piles on the pressure

Patent law, domestic content rules in solar and ICT policy come under attack

Don’t take any ad hoc decision on cell phone towers, IIT profs request Centre

They say radiation from these towers too low to be harmful; health activists accuse them of conflict of interest

The digital is political

Technologies are not just agents of politics, there is politics in their design

Concrete without sand?

The world is sitting over a landfill of possible substitutes for sand