Author

Swagam Dasgupta

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17 Aug 2018
Blog post
National Health Stack: Data For Data’s Sake, A Manmade Health Hazard
Murali Neelakantan, Swaraj Paul Barooah, Swagam Dasgupta, Torsha Sarkar
On Oct. 5, 2017, an HIV positive woman was denied admission in Hyderabad’s Osmania General Hospital even though she was entitled to free treatment under India’s National AIDS Control Organisation programme. Another incident around the same …
13 Aug 2018
Blog post
The National Health Stack: An Expensive, Temporary Placebo
Murali Neelakantan, Swaraj Paul Barooah, Swagam Dasgupta, Torsha Sarkar
The year 2002 saw the introduction of a very ambitious National Program for Information Technology in the United Kingdom with the goal to transform the National Health Service — a pre-existing state-sponsored universal healthcare program. …
18 Jul 2018
Blog post
CIS submitted a response to a Notice of Enquiry by the US Government on International Internet Policy Priorities
Akriti Bopanna, Swagam Dasgupta
The Centre for Internet and Society drafted a response to a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) issued by the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on "International Internet Policy Priorities."
13 Jun 2018
Blog post
NITI Aayog Discussion Paper: An aspirational step towards India’s AI policy
Sunil Abraham, Elonnai Hickok, Amber Sinha, Swaraj Paul Barooah, Shweta Mohandas, Pranav M. Bidare, Swagam Dasgupta, Vishnu Ramachandran, Senthil Kumar
The National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence — a discussion paper on India’s path forward in AI, is a welcome step towards a comprehensive document that reflects the government's AI ambitions. The 115-page discussion paper attempts to …