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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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Current Scenario in Cybersecurity ecosystem in Chile
Today, Chile is one of the growing economies that is investing highly in ICT and innovation. It is also one of the countries that has a friendly relation with the other parts of Latin America. The foreign businesses and organisations see Chile as the gateway to Latin America. But growing interconnectedness and technology has brought with it new challenges. The challenge is to tackle growing cybercrime, cybersecurity awareness, and maintaining a healthy digital ecosystem. Currently, the cybersecurity is very centrally controlled in Chile. The government has the authority to control all aspects of cybersecurity in critical infrastructure, and financial institutions. However, there is no awareness programs in place, and without…
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The European Union, no longer the Queen of privacy?
TraceTogether in Singapore, Aarogya Setu in India, StopCovid in France, Covidsafe in Australia… Contact tracing applications are flourishing around the world and becoming the new trendy governmental tool to track the spread of COVID-19. This fashionable tool’s main purpose, is to prove that a citizen has been in proximity to someone tested positive for coronavirus. Thus, Privacy International and other organizations raised concerns about the rush to deploy technologies and the dangerous false debate between health and privacy. So contact tracing app is the new trendy and polemical thing, but how does it work? Is it the seed of a dystopian surveillance state? Above all, how does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…
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Has the Internet made public diplomacy irrelevant?
