There is nothing new about fake news. It has been in existence for centuries, albeit without the scaffolding of support from social media. From housewives’ tales to gossip magazines, the Trojan horse to the misinformation around the D-Day landing site, fake news has been a rite of passage.
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The WEF21 Agenda Is Laudable but Seems Possibly Impractical
The world at large has spent much of the past year struggling to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. While we have not yet defeated COVID-19, now with the vaccine, at last, there is some hope. 2021 is a year of change. Though we have all started working towards our rejigged futures again, the fact is that the new normal is different, and there is no going back to the conditions that reigned before 2020.
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42% of African children will drop out of school before finishing their education; currently only 49% of all children will attend secondary school across the world. While there are many…
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This essay has been attributed to different people and I tried to find out the true source but found no success. It was read out on the BBC by Stuart…
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If the “C”in CSR stands for Corporate, then why should we not follow all corporate practices in the process of executing on social responsibility. Should CSR be unrelated to corporate…
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Right at the outset, an important distinction needs to be made between technology enablement of the government and better management of 230 odd PSUs in India through IT. A recent…
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Between 2013 and 2014, increase in recorded security incidents outpaced growth in smartphone users which is an alarming but not surprising trend. Given that the world has moved from isolated…
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With an internet using population of 550-600 million users, China arguably has the world’s largest population which makes it more than 1 out of every 5 online users globally. With…
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The modern day classroom is a 300 year old legacy of the British Empire. They needed to manage a global enterprise without telephones or computers. What they needed was people…
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Praestat cautela quam medela – all that really means is “prevention is better than cure”. As I thought more about this topic, it seemed to me that good software development…