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Adding digital layers of indignity -Rajendran Narayanan

-The Hindu Dehumanisation is the likely outcome when humane aspects of governance get outsourced to technologies The right to live with dignity is a constitutional imperative. However, it rarely manifests in discussions surrounding digital initiatives in governance. Centralised data dashboards — valuable as they are — have become the go-to mode for assessing policies, relegating principles such as human dignity and hardships in accessing rights to its blind spots. Often when technological...

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Rediscover the ragi -Diptimayee Jena and Srijit Mishra

-The Telegraph The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has pointed out weather variations, global warming, and water scarcity can adversely affect food production Climate change and the agrarian crisis are intertwined. They are manifest in the threat to food and nutritional security. These challenges have been further aggravated by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and reduced global food production. The looming hunger crisis is especially potent for vulnerable populations living in...

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India will play its due role in advancing global food security

-ANI/ Hindustan Times Dubey said that New Delhi is running the world's largest food-based safety net programme, which has seen a paradigm shift from welfare to a rights-based approach. India will play its due role in advancing global food security, upholding equity, displaying compassion and promoting social justice, said First Secretary Sneha Dubey at the UN security Council high-level special event on global food security crisis on Monday (local time). Dubey said that...

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Privacy, consent, data — what Delhi govt ignores when giving parents live classroom footage -Trishee Goyal

-ThePrint.in Arvind Kejriwal's Delhi govt needs to conduct a privacy assessment and find out what value does live streaming of classrooms add to children’s security. The Delhi government’s decision to give parents access to live video footage of classrooms is worrisome. Although use of CCTV and biometric based technologies is increasing across schools in various states, the decision to livestream classroom proceedings takes the use of these technologies a step further. In...

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How Aadhaar authentication is helping dealers siphon off food rations in Jharkhand -Siraj Dutta

-Scroll.in A welfare scheme is not the space for technological experiments. In a state with poor nutrition, the government should act against corruption and exclusion. Ration dealers were siphoning off more than half of the grain entitlement of ration cardholders. That is what residents of several villages in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district noted at a recent public hearing on the functioning of the public distribution system in the area. The statements of participants...

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