ECI’s current voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) system is not truly voter-verified. The correct protocol would be to allow a voter to approve the VVPAT slip before the vote is finally cast, and provide an option to cancel
Subhashis Banerjee, Subodh Sharma write: It is an elegant concept whose properties and potential require careful research, but treating it as a solution for all problems without thinking things through is techno-determinism.
🔴 Subhashis Banerjee, Subodh Sharma write: Voter ID-Aadhaar linkage needed more consultation. As it stands, it threatens to disenfranchise marginalised populations, tilt electoral results
Subhashis Banerjee writes: Sophisticated surveillance attempts like Pegasus, which bypass data protection architecture and regulatory oversight, must be met with public outrage, which can only emerge from commitment to constitutional morality.
Technologists and technocrats should be careful to not define ‘public good’ as what they can conveniently deliver, and instead understand what is actually required.
JNU has promoted inter-disciplinary research and a vibrant culture of free enquiry, where learning outside the classroom has been as important as inside, and where it has been possible to challenge every doctrine and discuss it democratically.
The interest in UBI seems to be building up significantly from several quarters and it is quite possible that the government is contemplating some steps in this direction in the upcoming budget.
