Comic#1 : Purpose Limitation, Trust in Government
As we see various technologies deployed for containing the spread of COVID-19, a lack of adequate purpose limitation and other data protection principles will lead citizens to distrust both the government and the technology...
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Figure 1: Timeline of Kerala's responses over 100-day period
Kerala registered India’s first COVID-19 case on 30 January. Over ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased human capital demands on the public sector to unprecedented levels. The demands are particularly large for healthcare workers and police who are at the forefront of pandemic management. The police’s functions have multiplied in a way that risks personnel health....
In this short comic series, we will highlight some data governance dilemmas in the times of the pandemic and share with you our reading list on the subject. This week we discuss purpose limitation and trust in government.
As we see various technologie...
In this short comic series, we will highlight some data governance dilemmas in the times of the pandemic and share with you our reading list on the subject. This week we discuss patient privacy and contact tracing. Maintaining patient privacy through the pandemic is crucial in orde...
Some parts of this blog may be best viewed on a desktop screen
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Figure 1: Timeline of Kerala's responses over 100-day period
Kerala registered India’s first COVID-19 case on 30 January. Over ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased human capital demands on the public sector to unprecedented levels. The demands are particularly large for healthcare workers and police who are at the forefront of pandemic management. The police’s functions have multiplied in a way that risks personnel health....
The Liberian handshake is elaborate. It starts with a regular handshake, followed by gripping, finger snapping and fist-pumping. In 2016, as Ebola gripped the nation, this handshake nearly went extinct. India’s namaste may give us some fleeting comfort in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, ...
Recent data projections (as leaked to the The Hindu) for the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) estimate that the city of Mumbai is likely to have more than 42,000 cases by the end of April and more than 650,000 cases by mid-May.
The...
The Times of India reviewed our study on urban mobility where we calculate average commute times and identify exact traffic chokepoints in Mumbai using Uber movement data.
Excerpts:
"A commute that should last 30 minutes in free-flowing traffic takes over an ho...
IDFC Institute's new working paper unearths the extent of Mumbai's congestion, quantifies its economic and environmental costs and provides actionable results for policymakers by identifying chokepoints.
We analysed more than half a billion Uber Movement data points in o...
This article on the First Post quotes an earlier work by Neha Sinha, Deputy Director and Associate Fellow and Renuka Sane, Former Visiting Fellow at the IDFC Institute in the context of Delhi police agitation. Excerpts -
"Even in relatively well-administered Maharashtra, scholars...
In an interview with Shankkar Aiyar, as a part of IDFC Institute’s Artha Dialogues 2019, Rajiv Kumar discusses the structural deficiencies in the financial sector which impede its ability to revive growth. Excerpts below:
"The IL&FS crisis that emerged in August 2018 led to seve...
