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  • Strengthening Telangana's Gig and Platform Workers Rules: Seven Recommendations

    Technology Policy - Telangana

    Strengthening Telangana's Gig and Platform Workers Rules: Seven Recommendations

    Telangana's gig workers Act sets out a clear welfare ambition. The Draft Rules are where that ambition either becomes operational or gets lost in ambiguity — and in seven places, they stop short.

    Aug 23, 2026 · 4 min read
  • Telangana Should Build IT Ecosystems for Digital Development, Not Fiscal Incentives

    Technology Policy - Telangana

    Telangana Should Build IT Ecosystems for Digital Development, Not Fiscal Incentives

    GRID offered cost-reduction instruments to move IT beyond the Cyberabad corridor. But cost is not what determines where firms cluster, and the policy's reach stopped at Hyderabad's own periphery.

    Aug 21, 2026 · 4 min read
  • Free Online Coaching Is Not an Education Policy or an Alternative

    Technology Policy - India

    Free Online Coaching Is Not an Education Policy or an Alternative

    When a government announces free coaching for the very exams its own school system should be preparing students for, it is not solving the problem — it is institutionalising it.

    Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read
  • Tracking Telangana's Ambition: Introducing the Telangana Rising 2047 Board

    Technology Policy - Telangana

    Tracking Telangana's Ambition: Introducing the Telangana Rising 2047 Board

    Telangana wants to grow from $200 billion to $3 trillion by 2047 across three economic zones. Vision documents are only as valuable as the accountability structures built around them.

    Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read
  • India AI Impact Summit Outputs and Outcomes

    Technology Policy - India

    India AI Impact Summit Outputs and Outcomes

    Analysing the New Delhi Ddeclaration and its proposed deliverables

    Mar 4, 2026 · 4 min read
  • India Exploring Indigenous Foundational Model with Low Availability of Data

    Technology Policy - India

    India Exploring Indigenous Foundational Model with Low Availability of Data

    Initial investment should go into building globally interoperable and locally implementable datasets (As suggested by Additional Secretary Mahaveer Singhvi, New, Emerging and Strategic Technologies, Ministry of External Affairs during a high level roundtable discussion hosted by Asia Society Policy Institute and United Nations India on Feb 16, 2026). Without having a holistic, inclusive dataset in Indian languages, the foundational model building would be an uphill task.

    Mar 4, 2026 · 4 min read
  • Information Entropy - A Social Science Research Method

    Technology Policy - India

    Information Entropy - A Social Science Research Method

    Amazon’s AI algorithms identify which products you would prefer, Facebook’s algorithms capacity to identify pictures accurately and segregate them into albums automatically, use information entropy. It is immature to say they use only information entropy; any sophisticated AI algorithm uses multiple approaches. /

    Mar 4, 2026 · 4 min read
  • Who Should Control the Cybernetic Social System?

    Technology Policy - India

    Who Should Control the Cybernetic Social System?

    What is a Cybernetic Social System, and who should control it? The term refers to how societal feedback loops train algorithms that, in turn, nudge public behaviour in specific directions.

    Mar 4, 2026 · 4 min read
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