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The 2023 Update on The National Artificial Intelligence R&D Strategic Plan by the US government provides some insights on how the government will shape its policy to regulate and leverage AI. Prepared by the Select Committee On Artificial Intelligence of The National Science And Technology Council, the report is key to understanding how the US plans “to sustain and enhance the scientific, technological, and economic leadership position of the United States in AI.” Given the fact that the AI technology landscape grows at a non-linear pace, authorities worldwide are struggling. And there is ..read more

In the present age, data is the fuel that is driving businesses across the world. Companies in banking, communications, healthcare, education, manufacturing, insurance, and retail sector require customer data. Even government agencies collect data for various purposes.  Companies require data to offer customized experiences and automated messages to customers. There is increasing competition among organizations to collect important information and store it for future usage. However, lawmakers are devising rules and regulations to protect individuals from information breaches and violation ..read more

China’s crackdown on tech companies hasn’t really surprised anyone who knows China. However, the extent to which the Chinese authorities went has raised new questions without really answering the older ones. In this post, we look at the backdrop to sense where the China clampdown on what were almost untouchable giants began. We look at some data and hypothesize what led to China taking what sounded like a drastic step.  Beijing’s stock exchange and Jack Ma A US president once said that when China is thirsty, it will play the guitar.  In China, nothing happens by chance. And most peop ..read more

The medical applications of 3D printing technology are widening every day with an increasing number of people becoming careful about their dental health. How 3D printing can help healthcare became even more popular when people realised how 3D printing was helping fight Covid-19. Digital dentistry is about half a century old, around 1971. It started out with computer-based analysis and slowly began offering insights to doctors for diagnosis and surgery. Today, the FDA uses Research, Regulate and Resource – known as the 3 R’s of 3D printing – to better define their role of the regulatory ag ..read more

Marketing automation tools have become both popular and indispensable. Because nearly all businesses use some martech or the other, there has been a huge rise in the number of such tools and services. As a result, it becomes necessary to closely understand which of the tools suits the needs of your business the best. For instance, you want to see how they’d help you comply with the latest data privacy judgements, like the Schrems II ruling. Let’s take a look and see how we can best compare marketing automation tools. Marketing automation tools comparison In a number of software solutions, say ..read more

The Gopalakrishnan Committee, setup by the Indian government on non-Personal Data Governance Framework, submitted its draft report in July 2020. The draft report of the committee that’s headed by chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder Infosys proposed setting up a dedicated authority that would ensure non-personal data would be used for sovereign and commercial purposes. It further stressed the need to chalk out broad parameters regarding data sharing and how the non-personal data could be prevented from being de-annonymised. Why the committee? Here are the five principal reasons why the com ..read more

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its decision on a data protection that now become popular as Schrems II. Many expert see this judgment as one that will have far-reaching impact on data privacy issues and the related challenges, particularly on how (and whether) data can be transferred out of European borders. Quick Facts about the Schrems II What is Schrems II? Schrems II is a case in the CJEU (Case C-311/18) regarding data privacy. Its judgment was delivered in Luxembourg on 16 July 2020. Who are the parties in Schrems II? The Data Protection Commissioner vs Facebook ..read more

3D Printing is re-inventing itself by trying to meet the acute shortage of medical devices, objects and even quarantine rooms As we sit down to write how 3D printing is fighting against Coronavirus, the officially confirmed cases of Coronovirus disease worldwide are over to 2.46 MN with over 165,000 deaths. The sheer size of the Covid-19 threat makes it important for everyone to join hands and fight this dreadful pandemic. Historically, 3D printers have been used mostly for prototyping industrial items. Sometimes, 3D printed objects have also been used for aesthetic purposes, like printing a m ..read more

The European Commission (EC), on February 19 2020, released a document titled A European Strategy for Data. This document is a road-map for the member countries of the European Union (EU) in the data economy for the next five years. More importantly, the document clearly spells out the ambition of the EU: “(to) become a leading role model for a society empowered by data to make better decisions – in business and the public sector”. This objective is significant principally for two reasons. One, data is the raw material for what could be the technology of future, namely artificial intelligenc ..read more