Year 2014, a 21-year-old in Chennai received the gift of life, thanks to an ambulance being able to carry the heart for transplant covering a distance of 12kms in just 14 minutes from Chennai Government General Hospital to Fortis Malhar Hospitals in Adyar, a distance that otherwise takes more than 45mins to cover. This was the very first instance when …
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Suresh Kumar, VP – Deployments, IUDX recently participated in a panel discussion on “How IoT and 5G will make businesses, cities smarter” at the Mint Digital Innovation Summit 2021. Hear his thoughts on the use and challenges of these technologies, and how they will help usher in the new era.
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A report* issued in 2019 suggests that public transport is the third most preferred mode of transport in urban India, next to walking and using a personal motorbike. The fourth most favoured method of transport is personal car. The report also highlights that the most important reasons for not using public transport were poor ‘quality of infrastructure’ (poor quality bus …
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In our previous article we saw that common data APIs and common data models are the key tools to combat data silos. Together, these enable efficient data sharing, improved data interoperability and enable ease of application portability across platforms. We explained the role played by Data Descriptors, which are linked data objects present in the IUDX catalogue, in breaking silos …
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Data silos present formidable roadblocks in the journey of our cities towards becoming data smart. Data silos are isolated islands of data which make it prohibitively difficult to exchange data for its use in other application areas. This prevents active participation of application developers and solution providers which is crucial to tackle the complex urban challenges faced by the cities …
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Since decades, traffic signals have been used to regulate traffic in order to increase efficiency in vehicular movement and road safety. These conventional traffic lights have done the job required with aplomb. However, increase in population, an exponential increase in traffic and the randomness in the traffic density pattern throughout the day has rendered these conventional signals rather obsolete. The …
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In response to the Expert Committee Report proposing a Non-Personal Data (NPD) Governance Framework, the National Law School, Bangalore, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, jointly hosted a series of panel discussions on Non-Personal Data. These discussions involved leading experts and practitioners across different fields thinking about NPD. This paper captures and expands …
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Dr Inder Gopal, CEO, IUDX, shares his professional journey in an exclusive conversation with INDIAai’s Research & Content Lead, Jibu Elias. Hear him talk about what excites him the most about his work and how, in his current capacity, he aims to use data and technology to help bring a positive change in everyday lives of people in India.
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) organised an online event on June 25, 2021 to commemorate 6 years of the three transformative Urban Missions vis. Smart Cities Mission (SCM), Atal Mission for Urban Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U), which were launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, on 25th June, 2015. The …
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Indian government is taking bold steps to galvanise the data economy through open government data platforms, smart city initiatives, and legal means. Many players in the domain aspire to leverage the monetisation potential of untapped data silos. However, while industry practitioners and public authorities look to categorise their data assets for maximizing usefulness, they have limited know-how and limited understanding …
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Shri S S Rajasekhar | Head Applications at Regional Remote Sensing Centres, NRSC / ISRO. |
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Shri Pankaj Mishra | Deputy Surveyor General, NIGST, SOI, Hyderabad |
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Shri Sanjeev Jha | Lead Architect – Government, AWS |
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Shri Sumit Sen | Chief Executive of the GISE Hub at IIT Bombay |
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Shri Prateep Basu | Co-Founder and CEO, SatSure |
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Prof PP Majumdar | Professor. Department of Civil Engineering, IISc Bengaluru |
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Dr Abhay Sharma | CTO, IUDX |
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Ms Ramadevi Lanka | Director, Emerging Technologies, ITE&C Department, Govt.of Telangana |
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Shri Naveen Kumar V | Founder of NaPanta®| Serial Entrepreneur | Digital Expert in Agri Ecosystem | REX Karmaveer Global Fellow | SLPian | tagged as Social Business Torch Bearer for India |
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Shri Timmana Gouda | Founder CEO, WhatsLoan |
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Shri Vineet Singh | Building impactful products at Digital Green |
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Shri Nipun Mehrotra (moderator) | Co-Founder & CEO, The Agri Collaboratory, Co-creating Digital Public Goods for Agriculture – in Open Source with the Ecosystem & Government |
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Shri Mathew Chacko | Partner, Spice Route Legal |
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Shri Parminder Jeet Singh | Independent Digital Researcher |
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Ms Saranya Gopinath | Director, Government Affairs & Public Policy at Razorpay |
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Ms Ramadevi Lanka | Director, Emerging Technologies, ITE&C Department, Govt.of Telangana |
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Shri Amlan Mohanty | Independent Technology Lawyer & Policy Advisor |
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Shri Rahul Matthan | Partner, Trilegal |
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Ms Anjula Gurtoo (Moderator) | Professor – Department of Management Studies Chairperson – Centre for Society and Policy Indian Institute of Science |
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Shri Narayan Mishra | CTO & Co-Founder at TUMMOC |
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Dr Sanjay Kolte | CEO, Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited |
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Shri Rajesh Krishnan | Chief Executive Officer, ITS Planners and Engineers Private Limited |
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Shri Munish Moudgil | Special Commissioner (Revenue) BBMP |
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Shri Suresh Kumar (moderator) | VP & Head – Platform Deployments & Applications, IUDX |