November 13, 2019

News for the IET

Can WANI Be To Telecom What UPI Is To Payments?edit

Communication Today

The good news is that WANI can perhaps mean a change for telecom similar to how UPI revived the payments industry, which was in the doldrums. TRAI’s WANI recommendation should be seized without further delay, and architecture should be implemented for unleashing Telecom Revolution 2.0. Authored by TV Ramachandran, President, Broadband India Forum & honorary fellow of the IET, Co-authored with Kartik Raja & Debu Bhattacharya, Broadband India Forum for Financial Express.

IETT V Ramachandran: Hon. fellow of the IET (London)
Adoption of digitisation in healthcare to be deliberated at 4th Digital India Health Summit in Mumbai on November 16edit

Pharma Biz

Keynote address on the same will be delivered by Jeyaseelan Jeyaraj, senior director, Health Sciences, Asia Pacific, Oracle Corporation and president, HIMSS India, Dr. Zoha Rahman, Research and Policy Expert, Access to Information Programme, ICT Ministry, Government of Bangladesh, Dr Rishi Mohan Bhatnagar, president, Aeris Communications, Chairman IET IoT Panel India and Abhitabh Gupta, CEO of Good Health Insurance TPA.

Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar: Chairman of IET India IoT panelIET

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Pairing AI with IoT Opens New Pathways for Futuristic Advancementsedit

Analytics Insight

AI being an ubiquitous technology has a vital role to play in the revolution of emerging technologies. Specifically, when IoT is in its revolutionary phase, its amalgamation with AI can transform the future technological landscape.

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Is Internet Privacy Post GDPR Merely A Theateredit

Forbes

Recent discussions have also emerged about how the internet of things (IoT) has lent to this trend of the choice between comfort or privacy, but we must wonder if this is the only choice we must be left with Indeed, is this a false dichotomy that we can only have convenience at the expense of our privacy or a lack of services and information if we wish to protect our privacy Or, might this be the case of a medialed bias implicating that we have only these two choices: privacy or information.

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GSMA urges ICT companies to join RPS framework to ensure secured data flow across bordersedit

The Economic Times

The statement added that the framework is a precondition for next gen projects such as the Internet of Things (IoT) tracking of services across borders and the development of applications in the cloud and 5G.

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From selfdrive cars to IoT, these nextwave techs will rule 2020s decadeedit

Business Standard

Sine 2015-16 we are using Web 3.0 as the overlay of our digital universe. This is a Semantic web that incorporates Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Natural Language Search and Machine Learning technologies, Social Media, Internet of Things (IoT) and other customized online services including social media and streaming services. By 2025 we should usher in Web 4.0.

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Enhancing Customer Experience to Expand Horizonsedit

BW Smart Cities

With the roll out of 5G, and advancements in technologies like IoT and Edge computing, we believe that the next couple of years are going to be transformational. With data consumption on exponential rise and 5G on the way, wireless platforms will not be enough to meet the demands of bandwidth guzzling consumers.

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Can Hiring Hackers Cut Down Cyber Attackedit

Silicon India

At a time when cyber attacks on businesses across industries are multiplying as they go digital, joining hacker powered bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programmes is the key to minimise such incidents and safeguard your key data, a top cyber security officer said on Tuesday.

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Artificial Intelligence And Ethics: The Need For EQ Along With IQedit

Express Computer

By Radhika Udas

As Artificial Intelligence gradually seeps into more industries, its need for emotion quotient becomes more pronounced. Monitoring Artificial Intelligence by setting an ethical framework is the way forward.

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AI to be critical in APAC cybersecurity market: Frost & Sullivanedit

Money Control

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have been increasingly adopted across industries due to their multifaceted benefits, from predictive outcomes to advanced data analytics. AI based cybersecurity has the potential to augment the capabilities of staff and help organizations better manage cyber threats.

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AI is too important to leave to Google and FB aloneedit

Deccan Herald

Americans don’t have to be beholden to the tech Goliaths to get the benefits of artificial intelligence. An alternative possibility is for government to provide the infrastructure needed for a technological future-through a public option for artificial intelligence.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Opinion: EV adoption in shared mobility is gamechanger for Indian auto incedit

The Economic Times

Hence, it is imperative that mobility ecosystem should essentially shift dependence from internal combustion engine vehicles to a more sustainable way of transportation through Electric Vehicles (EV) characterised by zero direct emission.

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Manufacture electric vehicles or lose market share: Amitabh Kant to Motownedit

CNBC TV18

In an interview to CNBC-TV18’s Parikshit Luthra, Amitabh Kant, chief executive officer, promised to remove impediments for two-wheelers in government’s Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles or FAME 2 scheme. “FAME-2 is essentially focused on buses. We have supported about 6,000 buses as it is mass transportation.

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Electric vehicles are more environmentally friendly than their gaspowered counterparts, but they still lag behind in one key area: productionedit

Business Insider

Electric vehicles are lauded as an environmentally friendly alternative to gaspowered cars, thanks in part to producing no emissions on the road. Yet building electric cars creates more greenhouse gas emissions than producing an equivalent gaspowered vehicle.

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EESL Fails to Meet Target of Deploying 10,000 E-carsedit

The Economic Times

State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Limited’s (EESL) move to electrify government employees’ car fleet has fallen short of its ambitions with the company set to close its tender for 10,000 electric cars at the end of March 2020 with an expected procurement of only 3,000 such vehicles.

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Coming soon! Indias first ebus depot in Puneedit

MID-DAY

Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal (PMT) clears a depot in Bhekrai Nagar, which was used to park CNG and diesel buses Having acquired 100 electric buses and with the target of getting 500 additional buses, the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal (PMT) has begun the task of turning a depot in Bhekrai Nagar. It also aims at beating Bengaluru to become the nations first city to have stations exclusively for ebuses.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Women will lose more jobs due to automation, robots; heres whyedit

The Financial Express

Women workforce in developing countries are more prone to job loss as new technologies emerge on a daily basis. While two thirds of jobs are at risk in developing nations, according to data by the World Bank, Southeast Asia women are more susceptible to automation and will fare worse than men as they are expected to lose more jobs and land fewer of the higherskilled ones that emerge, Bloomberg Businessweek reported.

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How The Internet Of Things Will Turn Us Into Connected Workersedit

Forbes

By Simon Chandler

It might sound like the stuff of dystopian science fiction, but connecting workers and employees through the Internet of Things (IoT) will provide a significant boost to workplace productivity and safety. Even now, startups and major corporations are providing services which help businesses track their staff, and in the process their improvements to efficiency will force other businesses to follow suit, or risk falling behind.

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