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Aadhaar: A quiet disruption
Having registered one billion Indians, the team behind Aadhaar is now creating a digital infrastructure—the India Stack—that promises to disrupt financial services, make service delivery dramatically cheaper and efficient and boost the startup ecosystem
Enjoy the data while it lasts. It won’t for too long
Behind your back, a fierce battle is being fought between actors of all kinds over who owns you. It will end soon. But a price will have to be paid. That includes our privacy
The difficulty of cross-selling
How far can businesses push the power of platforms to sell new types of products? The past week offered some interesting pointers
The bias in technology
April 06, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Tech’s complicated relationship with government; robots, drones and anti-drones; and environmentally cool food
Not AI alone but AI + ethics
AI systems may be making important decisions that will fundamentally affect the lives of Indians. For AI to be truly transformative though, its ethical biases need to be rooted out
The alchemy that transforms adversity into opportunity
The very scarcities of resources India faces gives it a natural advantage in taking leadership in frugal engineering and rewriting the playbook on innovation. In a session hosted by CII, Gopichand Katragadda, Navi Radjou, Shantam Shukla, Suneel TS and Vaibhav Chhabra discuss how
Transforming the soul of the enterprise
Large organisations can infuse the energy and agility that startups bring. Future Group, Nestle and Star TV are good examples of how a large firm can be constantly innovative. At the same time, there is a new breed of startups like TeamIndus that have an audacious goal and seek exponential growth
Solving India’s problem of jobless growth
Jobless growth is a multi-cause, systemic problem. Tackling each cause individually will backfire. A more effective solution is to develop a synergistic policy-matrix
The dilemma of being Nandan Nilekani
Much is being reported and celebrated on the return of one of the original co-founders of Infosys to its helm as chairman. But is that what he may have wanted? Is it desirable? What kind of lessons emerge?