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Thoughtscapes: Digital roadmap to build liveable cities
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015. Digital roadmap to build liveable cities. For good governance, the first step is to reform our information system, not our infrastructure. Here is a roadmap to improve information in our urban centers to make them liveable and to ensure we move from bad governance to good governance. Unfortunately, we are continuing to make our urban centers increasingly unlivable, and building even more based on the same broken model. Our urban governance creates silos of information ma...
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Thoughtscapes: Maximum government, death of digital if TRAI has its way
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Saturday, April 04, 2015. Maximum government, death of digital if TRAI has its way. Just as the internet spread across the world at its own developmental rate, it is important to allow it to spread across India at its own developmental rate. Comparing OTT applications and services with TSP licensing is much the same as saying teachers and colleges should have the same business mode. Or theatres and actors or even movie producers should have the same business model and licensing. The burdens and costs of ...
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Thoughtscapes: June 2006
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Friday, June 30, 2006. Reforming the United Nations. On the 26th of June we celebrated the Anniversary of 50 nations coming together in San Francisco, in 1945, to sign the charter of the United Nations. How relevant, then, is the United Nations today? Should there be reforms in the UN or should we be reforming the United Nations? If we take the latter approach, what should be the fundamental end of the UN? Establishing a global government? Building a civilized world? Or building a just world? The mission...
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Thoughtscapes: Refer net neutrality to Competition Commission
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Saturday, April 18, 2015. Refer net neutrality to Competition Commission. Responses to violation of net-neutrality will highlight our values on non-restrictive practices and free markets. Would you think it fair and unrestrictive if your newspaper were to give you zero plans for paid-news? Neutrality is not restricted to a domain, it cuts across domains. Furthermore, instead of referring the matter to the Competition Commission (@CCI India), the minister took to maximum government by announcing a six-mem...
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Thoughtscapes: April 2006
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Thursday, April 27, 2006. It just takes that little extra to make the ordinary extraordinary! When life gets thrown at us, a day at a time, we experience the ordinary. It takes a little extra to respond and make the lives of those around us experience the extra-ordinary. Sometimes, however, life throws at us the extraordinary and it takes that little extra to rise up to the occasion and be extraordinary. Rising up to an unusual event, an unusual request or unusual people. When you visit google.com. Do yo...
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Thoughtscapes: 3 Simple Features that can create an impactful ‘Planning Commission’
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Thursday, August 21, 2014. 3 Simple Features that can create an impactful ‘Planning Commission’. By declaring the end of the Planning Commission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a huge step forward to ensure that that the government’s objective would not be just to implement five year plans. How can Mr Modi shape the body that replaces the Planning Commission? By adding what has been missing right from the beginning: result-orientation. 1 Develop timeless missions for the government. Without a mis...
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Thoughtscapes: May 2006
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006. 7 out of ten Indian’s are under 30. That’s almost a billion, a sixth of the worlds population! A third of the working cohorts are under 30. That’s close to a 150 million! Each year 15-20 million youngsters enter the working cohorts promising to keep the youthful organizations young. India is an opportunity for reform, for innovation and for change. How does one make the nation grow up to missions critical to the current century and responsive to the next? Can we define the habits a...
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Thoughtscapes: Net neutrality makes internet valuable
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Saturday, January 10, 2015. Net neutrality makes internet valuable. Net neutrality is being threatened in India by mobile phone companies. Your telephone is valuable because it is phone neutral. Won't it be distasteful if your phone company refused to connect you to your bank if your bank had not paid up a special subscription to allow you and its other customers to talk to it? As long as your telephone company regards you as their customer it will make no sense to them to indulge in this behaviour. ...
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Systems Speak: Not so Random Thoughts of a Systems Thinker
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Conversations to transform systems and the way they speak back. Friday, January 15, 2010. Not so Random Thoughts of a Systems Thinker. When a general theory applicable to all organisation is presented, it is impossible to make a statement that does not directly or indirectly fall within the scope of the theory. Arguments are worthless if premises are unknown or unshared (to those exchanging the argument). Words are meaningless without convention. Convention accumulates the shared concepts of a community.
