July 13, 2018

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Indian industry must up its tech ante edit

The Hindu Business Line 

Thus IOT essentially integrates machine with IT. No wonder, it is the technology of choice for automating manufacturing, services and logistics industries. Yet, IOT is not a standalone technology. It could become dominant because of advances in AI. AI helps IOT sensors find the most productive way of doing things. Use of IOT and AI has revived the Robotics industry.

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India gives a nod to Net Neutrality, might have the strongest rules in the world edit

Business Insider 

As per the TRAI recommendations, Internet of Things (IoT) will need to adhere to the regulations but certain critical services like autonomous vehicles, disaster management and remote diagnostic surgery will be exempted from following the rules. This clause has been put in because these services often need to prioritise some things and situations over others.

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Artificial Intelligence & Automation, winning combo for businesses: Viewedit

ET CIO 

There’s a new power couple in town – Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation. In the digital economy, AI and Automation are creating plenty of opportunities for businesses to re-imagine processes, turbocharge performance and boost productivity like never before.

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Robots, robots everywhere. What does it mean for developing countries?edit

Qrius

By Lukas Schlogl & Andy Sumner

In the long run the moral case of a global universal basic income may become overwhelming, write Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner. Stunning technological advances in robotics and artificial intelligence are being reported virtually on a daily basis: from the versatile mobile robots in agriculture and manufacturing jeans to autonomous vehicles and 3D-printed buildings.

Battling Cyber Risks With Intelligent Automationedit

CXO Today 

Organizations are losing the cybersecurity race. Cyber threats are evolving faster than security teams can adapt. The proliferation of data from dozens of security products are outpacing the ability for security teams to process it. And budget and talent shortfalls limit the ability for security teams to expand rapidly.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

India On The Move edit

Business World 

By Anurag Batra

All that, however, could be a thing of the past, with the latest EV push coming from no less than Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself. In the first week of September, he will address a global meet that, together with the participation of Niti Aayog and all key stakeholders, will seek to chart a new future. By that time the second phase of FAME India (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles in India) would have come in.

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EESL scraps its second tender for procurement of 10,000 e-carsedit

The Economic Times 

By Nishtha Saluja

State-run Energy Efficiency Services(EESL) has scrapped its second tender for procurement of 10,000 electric cars as the industry awaits clarification on specifications for chargers which will allow higher end, luxury automakers to come into the picture.

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Industry News: Education

Education is strategicedit

Business Standard 

It is unclear if India’s Union and state governments realise the urgency of the situation. What happened in India after 1992 owes in large parts to the investments made in the decades before that. If it were not for the IITs, IIMs, engineering colleges and good English language education India wouldn’t have been able to ride the IT, BPO, biotech and services wave that propelled our international prominence.

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Reforming Education through Digitisationedit

By Elets 

With the advent of technology and its surging acceptability in society at large, there is a huge scope to take education to the remotest part of the country, for enhancing awareness and improving understanding. But, the education field in India is mired in tradition, ideology and incumbent interests, writes Akash Tomer of Elets News Network (ENN).

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Machines, made in schooledit

The Telegraph 

The teenagers from Bijoygarh Higher Secondary School for Girls had never seen a remote-controlled car before. Neither had they heard of artificial intelligence. So they were extremely happy unravelling the wonders of science in the Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL) of Salt Lake School. ATL is an initiative under Atal Innovative Mission, programmed by Niti Aayog, or the National Institution for Transforming India, a policy thinktank of the central government.

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A New Landscape for Talent Acquisitionedit

BW People  

By Arif Khan

Last year, Josh Bersin from Bersin, Deloitte Consulting LLP’s digital destination for the human resources professional, wrote an article in Forbes, in which he said that companies on an average spend approximately $4,000 per candidate on interviewing, scheduling, and assessment to decide if someone is right for a job. “We estimate that the entire recruitment market is over $200 billion worldwide, and nearly every employer is a participant,” he wrote.

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Changing trends of recruitmentedit

The Statesman 

By Abhishek Agarwal

Finding the right talent with the desired skill-set and deploying it on the right places is a tough job for HRs and that is why the future will be more occupied with contract-based jobs. Now, rather than knowledge, its practical implications are more valuable to businesses and employers always prefer future-ready workforce which possesses an ideal mix of skills and experience.

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‘Large number of engineering colleges are frozen in time’ edit

The Times of India 

When Tamil Nadu was caught up in the NEET fiasco and needed an overhaul of its decade-old school syllabus, former vice-chancellor of Anna University M Anandakrishnan was roped in to head the curriculum framework committee for state board schools.

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Deloitte’s SV Nathan on aligning approach with talentedit

People Matters 

SV Nathan is Partner and Chief Talent Officer at Deloitte and has over 29 years of professional experience in Human Resource management. Nathan served as the President of the Hyderabad chapter of the National Human Resource Development Network (NHRD) until 2011.  Continuous learning is of paramount importance as that is the lever for supporting anyone through the change, especially employees.

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Parents prefer colleges with industry linkageedit

The Hans India 

Engineering and degree colleges in the city are offering various courses and highlighting the industry linkages and collaborations with the institutions to attract the students. The managements of the colleges are organising seminars, workshops, guest lecturers, college events, industry-ready programames, sports, cultural programmes and other extra circular activities to bring out the hidden talent from the students.

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Breathe India, a Niti Aayog action plan to fight air pollutionedit

India Today 

Highlighting that five most polluted cities of the world are in India, Niti Aayog has proposed a 15-point formula to combat air pollution. Titled, Breathe India, the Niti Aayog action plan seeks “concerted action from all levels of governance”. It has cited a WHO report to state that Kanpur, Faridabad, Gaya, Varanasi and Patna are most polluted cities in the world.

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