India’s Model T moment
This Week: An informed debate on policy and Aadhaar, China goes to the dark side of the moon, what motivates gig workers, and how automation is remaking service work
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‘Exclusion does not come from Aadhaar, but from its uses’
There are multiple India’s—with different levels of prosperity and access to services. And India lives simultaneously in multiple centuries. Ram Sewak Sharma, TN Ninan, Parth Shah and Shakti Sinha discuss how Aadhaar and the policy around it needs to evolve to bridge these differences
Where may the True North lie?
Time to reflect: Anne Lamott's 12 truths, David Foster Wallace on adjusting your natural default-setting, questioning scale, and the most important questions
A step forward for e-KYC and digital payments
Aadhaar review petitions, e-KYC and financial inclusion, DigiLocker, how philosophy helps navigate the world, organisational culture, and more
The Beatles, and mastery through deliberate practice
This Week: Deliberate practice, the clash between capitalism and democracy, inside the mind of a digital native, the personal data ecosystem, and more
Carlos Ghosn, GE and the rise and fall of iconic leaders
This Week: Carlos Ghosn and GE’s fall from grace, D Shivakumar’s list of best books of 2018, and a compass for the year ahead
A glimmer of revival for eKYC, the future of eSign, and fuzzy numbers
The news on eKYC, eSign, Facebook's attempts to verify political advertisers, the state of research on Aadhaar, and more
The political mind, the future of work and innovation
This Week: How politicians think, resurgence of liberal arts in a tech-driven world, tech disruptions in banking and more
A drop in Aadhaar use, but there are many doors to digital identity
Digital identity, digital monopolies, technology and humanity, debating Blockchain, and more
The root of human ingenuity
This Week: Behind the Wunderman-JWT global merger, Facebook’s moral dilemma, the changing nature of work, digital inclusion, creative imagination and more