How data science in and for Africa can blaze new trails
Data science, led by Africa-based scientists, could play a key role in addressing issues like improving access and equity in health care, …
Wave of big data and the swaying ship of public health in India
Big data can be a game-changer, only if adequate measures for capacity building, technological advancement, data privacy, logistics and …
Early warning system to predict dengue possible by mining data
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, attempted to estimate how weather conditions can lead to a more severe …
Psychographics: the behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters' minds
How the Cambridge academic Michal Kosinski’s model is able to predict someone’s personality profile just on the basis of 300 likes
This tool can help companies track digital carbon footprint of stored data
Data carbon ladder enables organisations to see environmental impact of stored data at various stages
Only 11% low-income countries make their data open: World Bank report
Gaps in data on women and girls particularly severe; countries do not invest enough in public intent data systems, the report said
A Hippocratic Oath for data science? We’ll settle for a little more data literacy
Part of the issue is the ease with which machine learning algorithms can be applied, making data literacy no longer particular to mathematical …
Half of Earth's satellites restrict use of climate data
Satellite data can contribute to a wide range of areas–climate change, weather, natural disasters, agricultural development and more–…
Why fixing Africa's data gaps will lead to better health policies
Commitment may be the first step towards affordable health care, but more needs to be done to harness the power of data for public health
Supreme Court to hear writ petition to ban Whatsapp
Petitioner says that Whatsapp has adopted end-to-end encryption which compromises national security
Deliberate omission: Certain provisions in Digital Personal Data Protection Act regression for democracy
By providing wide discretionary powers to the bureaucracy, the new data protection law severely restricts the scope of the Right to Information …
How the ‘strict’ Data Act is diluting RTI
The government made many provisions to insulate itself from most of the data protection, making it less transparent and accountable
Only 10% deaths in Africa are registered: Here’s why it is a global concern
Cause of nearly 92% reported deaths in low-income countries, including the African nations, is not known
Facebook is restricting search results – is this taking transparency seriously?
Facebook is deliberately limiting the number of archived public messages anyone can see: hiding many messages sent by all manner of Facebook pages
Poor data affects Africa's ability to make the right policy decisions
The truth is that data in Africa are not produced on time, not frequently enough, are of poor quality and aren't accurate. This makes it …
Silicon Valley wants to read your mind. Here's why you should be worried
Mind-reading systems — such as Facebook's brainwave-reading device and Neuralink’s brain implants — can affect our privacy, …
SC dismisses petition seeking ban on WhatsApp
An RTI activist had filed the petition saying that encryption in WhatsApp could threaten national security
‘Africa’s COVID-19 tool will also help improve food security, livelihoods’
Information and data are important for evidence-based strategic planning to fight off COVID-19, says Oliver Chinganya, director, Africa …
Not everything we call AI is actually ‘artificial intelligence’. Here’s what you need to know
AI, in the form of ChatGPT, reached desktops & phones of general public late last month
State of India’s Environment 2023 In Figures: How CSE-DTE ranked Indian states
Identifying and compiling data, standardisation, weightage assignment, computation and finally ranking were the steps followed
Experts demand ethical framework and standards for AI systems
Two-day international colloquium on ‘Ethics and Governance of Autonomous Al Systems for a Better World’
150 years of global temperature data now on Google Earth
Database uses information from 6,000 stations and is expected to make climate-change data more accessible and transparent
Why the data block?
India does not know how many people are poor or who they are; no consumer expenditure survey has been done in the last decade. We also do not …
Antibiotic resistance: The magic bullet’s toll
What if a saviour turns into a killer? After 80 years of use, overuse and abuse of antibiotics — termed magic bullets — microbes have …
China’s ‘surveillance creep’: How big data COVID-19 monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic
A more robust system was constructed to collect and monitor big data related to pandemic control
