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Development Seminar | Manufacturing Jobs: Implications for Productivity & Inequality

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Development Seminar @ Brookings India | The Online Education Revolution and India

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM IST

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Illustration picture shows a smartphone with Covid-19 app in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on April 19, 2020. The World Health Organisation says tracking infected people, and tracing and alerting their contacts, are vital if the disease is to be kept under control after lockdown. The government says it has received 750 applications from companies to co-operate on a 'corona app' and will draw up a shortlist over the weekend with the aim of producing a draft proposal on April 21. The app is expected to use Bluetooth technology on mobile phones to see who has been in contact with an infected person. Privacy campaigners are concerned that if the app is rolled out too quickly it will not be secure or sufficiently anonymous and have questioned its effectiveness. The governments target is for 60% of people to use the app, but in Singapore, where a voluntary app was introduced, take-up is around 20%. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Netherlands. No Use Germany.

TechTank

Managing health privacy and bias in COVID-19 public surveillance

Nicol Turner Lee and Jordan Roberts

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Acronym GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) designed on an iPhone screen. Montreal (Canada), July 28th, 2019.Sigle GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) forme avec les icones des applications mobiles. Montreal (Canada), le 28 juillet 2019.NO USE FRANCE

TechTank

The consequences of social media’s giant experiment

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators carry banners during a protest over alleged police brutality, in Lagos, Nigeria October 14, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Upcoming election in Guinea, debt suspension extension, and protests in Nigeria and Namibia

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Regulating a Digital Economy

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Op-Ed

To comply with the Clean Power Plan, states should tax carbon

Adele Morris and Evan Weber

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Sister of ten-year-old malnourished girl Afaf Hussein holds a pot of rice she cooked in their kitchen outside their house in the village of al-Jaraib in the northwestern province of Hajjah, Yemen, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Future Development

Middle East food security amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

A view shows cars stuck in a traffic jam in Beirut, Lebanon June 10, 2021. Picture taken June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Future Development

How to kick-start the decoupling of emissions from economic growth in MENA

Martin Philipp Heger and Lukas Vashold

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Contact tracing app TraceTogether, released by the Singapore government to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is seen on a mobile phone, in Singapore March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su

TechStream

Contact-tracing apps face serious adoption obstacles

Sarah Kreps, Baobao Zhang, and Nina McMurry

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

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Markaz

Nothing beats the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians

Friday, January 29, 2016

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Up Front

United States moves to recapture its position as a leader on extractives transparency

Daniel Kaufmann and Joseph Williams

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the audience on "the challenges of protecting free speech while combating hate speech online, fighting misinformation, and political data privacy and security," at a forum hosted by Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) and the McCourt School of Public Policy in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso - RC1CB9578F30

TechTank

Can social media ‘targetcasting’ and democracy coexist?

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

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Report

Solving journalism’s hidden problem: Terrible analytics

Friday, February 19, 2016

Child explains to a senior how to use a computer

TechTank

Procedure Price Lookup: A step toward transparency in the health care system

Wednesday, January 30, 2019