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Getting Regulation Right in a Global Digital World:
Universal service, Competition, Consumer Protection, Competition, Ethics and Privacy have become even more significant given that Digital Technologies increasingly underlie the economic, social and political aspects of our lives. Artificial intelligence and the Metaverse are here to stay and Singularity is probably not as far as we may imagine. The global nature of these issues calls for international collaboration, cooperation and judicious regulation. This blog discusses these contemporary issues from the author’s multi-speciality perspective and offers unique and thought-provoking insights.
Aug 26, 2023
Digital Governance – An Indian Perspective
Paper presented at the ICG Annual Conference “India @75 and beyond: New Idea for The Present and Future,” Goa, India, July 2023. Abstract...
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Mar 24, 2023
Platforms, Competition & Consumer Protection Issues Falling between Regulatory Stools?
Lecture delivered at the Summer School on Platform Governance organised between the Hans-Bredow-Institut (University of Hamburg), the...
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Apr 21, 2020
Universal Digital Inclusion a Safety Net to Battle Pandemics Like Coronavirus
News 18 eJournal, April 21, 2020 Abstract One of the indisputable learnings from the COVID-19 crisis is that digital connectivity is...
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Nov 8, 2018
Big Data-Competition & Consumer Protection Issues, Falling between Regulatory Stools? (Presentation Slides)
Talk cum Presentation at Forum on Challenges in the digital environment 2018, Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones November 7-8, 2018,...
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Sep 25, 2018
Economic and Regulatory Issues in the Era of Free Services (Presentation Slides)
Presentation and Talk, Session on economic issues in modern telecommunication/ICT markets ITU Headquarters, Geneva, September 25, 2018....
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Oct 11, 2017
Mexico Earthquake-Lessons for Indian Authorities and Telecoms
Archana G.Gulati, Mexico Earthquake-Lessons for Indian Authorities and Telecoms-OpEd, Eurasia Review, October 11, 2017 DOWNLOADS: 45...
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Aug 10, 2016
Universal Service: Regulation, Competition and Contemporary Issues (Presentation Slides)
Paper presented at National Seminar on USOF for Digital India, Organised by NICF, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, 10.8.2016 DOWNLOADS: 46...
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Jul 22, 2016
Regulation in Developing Countries: Growing Pains of the Indian Merger Review Regime
Competition and Regulation in India, 2015, Leveraging economic Growth through Better regulation, CIRC, CUTS International #1532...
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Jul 1, 2016
What Indians Want from Bureaucracy and How to Get it
South Asia Monitor, July 01,2016 DOWNLOADS: 17 ABSTRACT VIEWS: 158 Abstract This article touches upon the problems faced by the Indian...
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Jul 21, 2015
Regulation in Developing Countries – Growing Pains of the Indian Merger Review Regime
Society for Policy Studies, Policy Brief No. 3, July 2015 DOWNLOADS: 35 ABSTRACT VIEWS: 522 Abstract This paper highlights the problems...
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Apr 30, 2015
The Net Neutrality Debate in the Indian Context, with a Pinch of Salt
I reproduce here my article on the subject, also available at this link . It is easy to get swept away in the maelstrom of views and...
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Dec 1, 2014
The State of Broadband in India – A Call for Regulatory Neutrality
CIRC, Working Paper No. 10. New Delhi: CUTS Institute for Regulation & Competition. (Digital Regulation in India) DOWNLOADS: 54 ABSTRACT...
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Jun 1, 2014
Regulatory Framework for Universal Service in India — Can We Learn from EU
INDIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 256 / VOL. LX, NO. 2, APRIL-JUNE 2014 DOWNLOADS: 42 ABSTRACT VIEWS: 281 Abstract Interventions by...
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Mar 8, 2014
What Will it Take for More Women to Assume Leadership Positions
Presentation made at the Institute of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers, New Delhi, March, 8 2014. DOWNLOADS: 47 ABSTRACT VIEWS:...
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Feb 10, 2014
Andaman Boat Disaster – What Will it Take to Prevent Such Incidents
Business Standard, February 10, 2014 DOWNLOADS: 26 ABSTRACT VIEWS: 248 Abstract This article analyses the existing provisions in Indian...
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Nov 1, 2013
Financing Disaster Risk Reduction – The Indian Context
Presentation to the Expert Group Meeting on Effective Strategies for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia and the Pacific,...
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Oct 1, 2013
Financial Resilience as an Integral Part of Disaster Management An Essential for Protecting the Poor & Vulnerable
Kurukshetra, A Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 61, No. 12, Special issue, October 2013 DOWNLOADS: 78 ABSTRACT VIEWS: 369 Abstract The...
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Jun 7, 2013
Universal Service, Concepts & Practices
Presentation to Institute on Internet & Society, June 2013 DOWNLOADS: 34 ABSTRACT VIEWS: 339 Abstract In this presentation, the author...
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Oct 25, 2024
Universalising Digital Transformation by Safeguarding Digital Rights-Teaching Bright Minds at the Law Institute Nirma University, Ahmedabad
My focus when teaching digital regulation and digital transformation is always on trust and consumer-centric design. I thoroughly enjoyed...
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Oct 2, 2024
AI and Liberty, A Topic Less Tantalizing
Kahlil Gibran is credited with saying, "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." My question is, what will human existence be...
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Aug 24, 2024
No (,) End (to) Spam and Scams
In the past few months, I have received countless spam calls and messages to the point that I have become robotic about disconnecting...
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Jun 20, 2024
AI and Human Creative Content: Plaigirism and Petty Theft
An article in today’s Economic Times draws attention to the problem of Artificial intelligence-related plagiarism. I was happy to read...
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Jun 19, 2024
Responsible AI and Applications in Higher Education
I recently moderated a panel AI in Higher Education on June 15, 2024 . It was interesting and informative and the panel was brilliant....
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May 13, 2024
Barbie or Ken, No Perfect Ten- For my Students
Are we Going Backwards? It was disturbing to read the recent Economist article about the hardening of conservative and chauvinistic...
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May 9, 2024
The Writing on The Wall-When Consumers Can Choose, They Do
Getting Regulation Right Recently, I spoke in an International Telecommunications Union expert panel on Data Protection in a joint...
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Apr 3, 2024
Tech Regulation and E-Commerce are Interrelated
Getting Regulation Right: E-commerce means that there is even more at stake for the consumer. E-Commerce and the Digital Consumer Having...
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Mar 16, 2024
The Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin of Digital Regulation?
Getting Regulation Right: Regulating AI Harry Potter struggled between Gryffindor and Slytherin before choosing.However, to get...
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Nov 25, 2023
Should AI Governance be Another Race to Dominate, or Should We Work Together to Safeguard Humanity?
AI Governance, Trust and Humanity. Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. Social media is rife with helpful content about how we must...
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Oct 8, 2023
Don’t Kill the Golden Goose; or Is This About Saving Red Riding Hood?
The Competition and Innovation Story : Part I An oft-asked question that has cropped up more than once during my ongoing course on “Ex...
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Sep 25, 2023
It’s Now, or Never Part II: The Era of Convergent and Collaborative Regulation
I recently advised a young team from a global Tech startup on AI Governance; we discussed the issue of divergent and evolving regulatory...
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Sep 23, 2023
Why Wait for Regulation? Digital Markets Need New Business Models
Why wait for regulation? While mavericks will play their part, Tech. Giants could lead the way with new, consumer-friendly business...
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Sep 11, 2023
It’s Now, or Never-Responsible Digital Transformation Requires Solid Global Governance.
It’s Now, or Never-Responsible Digital Transformation Requires Solid Global Governance. The G 20 New Delhi Leaders Declaration has won...
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Sep 8, 2023
Why Privacy Matters-Dark Patterns & Other Realities
Why Privacy Matters in a Digital World – Dark Patterns and Other Realities. Various Indian newspapers have reported today that the...
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Aug 25, 2023
A Heartening Clarification on Privacy
In a Democracy, the choice of how to regulate matters involving protecting citizens’ rights should be straightforward. An elected...
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Aug 16, 2023
The Dawn of a New Era in the Saga of Digital Transformation; Some Things Never Change
Hear from an influential thought leader and digital transformation speaker . Global Digital Transformation began with landlines and is...
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Aug 14, 2023
An AI Atlas-Mapping Uncharted Territory
This is recommended reading for anyone interested in AI regulation. It is hard to put down the ‘Atlas of AI’ by Kate Crawford. The book...
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Jul 21, 2023
Why Do We Need Ex Ante Regulation of AI? Is Self Regulation Not Enough?
Algorithmic regulation should be rooted in ethics and be legally enforceable. As human creations, algorithms are controlled by us; we...
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Jul 16, 2023
The Teaching of Public Policy
Teaching my discipline, i.e., Public Policy (in my case, with an emphasis on Technology), has a long theoretical legacy. However, the...
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