Shashi Shekhar Vempati

If India's position on AI opportunities was closer to the United States, its views on sustainability were perhaps closer to Europe

The development of the IT services opportunity saw India emerge as the manpower capital of the world to service the Y2K problem at the dawn of the new century

The integration of Indian knowledge systems into modern education holds tremendous potential in bridging the gap between traditional Indian thinking and contemporary science and technology

India's technology vision for the next decade is ambitious yet attainable

Both ATSC 3.0 for BPS in the US and D2M in India have the potential to deliver communications of national importance during crises and disasters independent of satellite systems and cellular telephony

With crowdsourcing of campaign and relief contributions through micropayments, the digitalisation of Indian democracy has added another dimension

From digitally issued vaccine certificates to the use of mass media to educate on vaccines, India, despite its socioeconomic disparities, a shining example to the world in countering vaccine hesitancy

A decadal calendar of multiple such technology-powered goals for Amrit Kaal may be essential if Bharat is to realise the Prime Minister's vision of becoming a developed nation by 2047

Over the years, live broadcast of parliamentary proceedings has brought home several surreal moments...

'If data is the new oil, large scale high performance computing is the new oilfield'

Harnessing the potential of these promising technologies calls for a light-touch regulatory approach that incentivises innovation and creates conditions for competition

Recent news about Disney's woes in India even as the Sony-Zee merger has had to weather issues of corporate governance point to a deeper blight afflicting the industry

One of the challenges faced by AI researchers in India is the limited availability of reliable and accurate public data across the diversity of Indian languages to be able to train such language model

The latest auction, which fetched more a thousand crore rupees in potential revenues, saw a further refinement of the methodology to insulate agai­nst likely cartelisation

With techno-nationalism spurring significant policy decisions from the US to Australia on investments to reshape the global supply chains, the Budget announcements will be keenly watched

The recent incidents along the border with China in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang region near the Yangtze river have been the subject of much debate in India and amongst western geopolitical observers

A recent study by McKinsey reports on the skill gap for quantum computing, with one in five jobs unfilled, and a likely 50 per cent gap in the required global talent pool by 2025

It is interesting that the myths around the influence of Confucianism on Southeast Asia come not from Chinese scholars but from futurologist Hermann Kahn

The drafting of an India-specific 5G standard and the adoption by 3GPP marks the coming of age for IITs in driving innovation beyond borders to influence global standards.

Discriminatory algorithms will be the most complex of challenges for regulators