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Hemant Adarkar
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Open-source imperative for India’s public sector

The open-source philosophy is a great way to reimagine technology use to unlock public value, but this requires the public sector to build trust first.

When the use of Aarogya Setu for Covid-19 contact tracing raised privacy concerns in 2020, a brief flurry of activity saw a one-time, perfunctory release of code on Github and then no updates or engagement with the over 400 issues and discussions initiated by the community since, although the application continued to be updated and evolved over the next two years. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) (AP)
Published on Sep 05, 2024 09:09 PM IST

The fragility of the mobile phone ecosystem

This is not the first time that data of high-profile individuals has been surveilled by governments. But the use of proprietary tools comes with a price tag of millions of dollars to governments, and when employed without due process, extracts an even heavier price from democracy

This studio photographic illustration shows a smartphone with the website of Israel's NSO Group which features Pegasus spyware. (AFP)
Updated on Aug 02, 2021 08:09 AM IST
ByHemant Adarkar, Meenaz Munshi and Anushka Bhansali
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