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How the father of Indian Economic reforms set the bedrock for Indian Cyber Diplomacy?
By Sanjana Rathi In the 1990s, India undertook fundamental reforms – structural, diplomatic, economic, and even technological, that set up the bedrock for Indian “Cyber Diplomacy.” The Information Technology revolution in India had begun, followed by the simultaneous development of the economy towards liberalization, globalization, and privatization. These economic reforms carved a way for corporate actors to play a salient role in Internet Policymaking. These structural changes were significant under the then Prime Minister of India, PV Narasimha Rao, also known as the father of Indian Economic reform. He was a true visionary and strategist who laid the bedrock for Indian Cyber Diplomacy. Before delving into how PM Rao laid…
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Has the Internet made public diplomacy irrelevant?
By Sanjana Rathi Introduction It is ubiquitous to see nations around the world reaching out to the public, both domestic and foreign, to shape public opinions on one hand and exert influence on the other. As a result of public diplomacy, national leaderships are showing the urgency to connect to people for explaining government postures and decisions and communicating the desired ‘images.’ Therefore, it is essential to understand the meaning of public diplomacy and the Internet’s role in this age. At the same time we also see a surge of fake news and politicisation of media platforms. There is massive amount of data being created and social media rules are…
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Role of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in shaping Cyber-norms
Cyberspace is presenting not only new challenges for states but also new opportunities for power projection. Thus, analyzing how non-Western perspectives have developed around this subject becomes relevant to understand some dynamics of contemporary international relations in cyberspace. In this way, to know how “the East” has been behaving in this area, the present article will briefly confuse a small part, an Eastern regional strategic thinking to cybersecurity, materialized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an international organization of eight member countries, namely – India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It was established in 2001 for political, military, and economic…
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The Imperative For Indigenous Technologies
By Pavithran Rajan In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature; art is an imitation of life. He believed that the idea is the ultimate reality. Art imitates idea and so it is an imitation of reality. Aristotle, on the other hand, advocat- ed art as it is mimetic. According to him, art is an imitation of action and the artist’s tool of enquiry is neither philosophical nor moral. Philosophy apart, mimesis is widely prevalent as a survival tactic and the homo sapien has used it in his long evolution. All militaries recognise its importance and cam- ouflage and concealment are necessary tools for deception, central to all…
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Landscape Study on Cybersecurity in Bangladesh
The Information Communication Technology Act 2006 governs the cybersecurity and data protection landscape of Bangladesh, even before the Bank of Bangladesh was hacked in 2016. The broad media law to tackle issues that range from fake news, defamation and the spread of propaganda is also under the purview of the ICT Act 2006. Although the Information Communication Technology Act 2006 covered cybersecurity, it was highly criticized and considered insufficient. The insufficiency of the ICT Act 2006 was reflected by the fact that that it was misused. The Human Rights Watch reported that between 2013 and April 2018, police submitted a charger sheet under the law, most under Section 57 of…
