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India’s new foreign policy to dictate diverse aspects of foreign trade

India is proactively shaping the international agenda on a wide array of issues in the post-COVID world and this is very much evident in its new foreign policy, which is a wide-ranging legislation. Kazim Rizvi, Founding Director, The Dialogue, believes that the government should prioritize some areas, including MSME and infrastructure in its foreign trade […]

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Does The Traceability Requirement Meet The Puttaswamy Test?

1. Introduction Encryption technology has popularly been used for varied purposes including secure communication. This allows for individuals to communicate amongst each other without anyone else being able to monitor the content of such conversations. This, thus, keeps such conversations even outside the purview of Law Enforcement Agencies (‘LEAs’). This preserves the privacy of the

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Outlook 2021: Designing data governance policies to promote domestic startups

The past year has seen several changes within the startup ecosystem, be it in terms of the increased reliance of digital services by the consumer base, or making sense of varied government policies that are regulating the ecosystem. In sectors such as edtech, fintech, ecommerce, the pandemic made digital the new normal as the world

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Submission on the Report by CoE on NPD Governance Framework

The Dialogue submitted its comments on the Non-personal Data Governance Framework Report by the Committee of Experts with inputs from the various stakeholder consultations. The Dialogue argued for a voluntary data sharing model over a mandatory sharing model for competitive advantage.This data sharing framework should be based on the principles of necessity, proportionality, accountability and

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5 years of Digital India – How far have we come?

Information technology and communication technologies have huge potential to provide new opportunities and challenges for developing economies. Since the wave of liberalisation in the 1990’s, India has harnessed technologies along with vast economic reforms to open up Indian markets to global businesses and investments. However, in the recent past, the Indian leadership’s focus on amplifying

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