Rumble-strips in the Last Mile. NGOs leveraging te...
AI-driven initiatives may soon be overhauling the collective social initiatives in Rural India. A roundtable with Hysea CSR group and CSR leaders, academia and NGOs explored challenges and possibilities for new tech to catalyze rural transformation in key sectors. A roundtable
Biometric Forensics – Through the eyes of a Cybe...
Prof. Sudipta Banerjee’s work in the edgy domain of biometrics, digital image forensics, morphing and cyber security is grabbing a lot of eyeballs. CVIT recently bagged an ambitious project with MEITY. She spoke to us about that and other interesting
AI to catalyze technology-driven social change in ...
IIITH’s Raj Reddy Center for Technology and Society (RCTS) is leading the way toward a tech-savvy rural India. A think-tank is going glocal, percolating the essence of emerging technologies in public health and grassroot education, to solve societal problems at
IIIT Hyderabad’s IHub-Data Fellowships to fuel t...
A coveted Fellowship program of IHub-Data from IIIT Hyderabad, part of a DST-funded National Mission aims to create well-honed, future-ready generations of data-leaders and innovators, with a holistic world view of data analytics and big data systems. The grant is
Aditi Mukherjee – How a Linguist is bringing...
Prof. Aditi Mukherjee, a sociolinguist, is teaching Linguistics to IT students about how language works. After a long career in pure humanities, she has reinvented herself and now takes a course in computational linguistics at IIITH’s LTRC lab. Here’s the
Intelligent Technology to Help India Leapfrog that...
There’s good news in the pipeline for India’s rural healthcare system. A roundtable on ‘Technology to address the last mile in Healthcare’, hosted by IIITH’s Raj Reddy Centre for Technology & Society, grappled with challenges in the rural Medicare system