Top US Professors Warn Silicon Valley Against Business With Modi

[Pakistanisage]

Again haqs-farting.com article ?

Mind your language....

 

[Soumitra]

Technology policy issues are at least as important as development issues, if not more so.
These accomplished educators and scholars know human history and the consequences of enabling the likes of Modis. Human history shows the horrible consequences of the abuse of technologies like nuclear, biological and chemical technologies. Digital technologies in wrong hands can be just as dangerous if not more so. Such unconstrained abuse must be stopped by not enabling the abusers.

since you are using so many big words would you mind telling me what exactly do you think Digital India is?

Technology policy issues are at least as important as development issues, if not more so.
These accomplished educators and scholars know human history and the consequences of enabling the likes of Modis. Human history shows the horrible consequences of the abuse of technologies like nuclear, biological and chemical technologies. Digital technologies in wrong hands can be just as dangerous if not more so. Such unconstrained abuse must be stopped by not enabling the abusers.

since you are using so many big words would you mind telling me what exactly do you think Digital India is?

 

[RiazHaq]

since you are using so many big words would you mind telling me what exactly do you think Digital India is?


since you are using so many big words would you mind telling me what exactly do you think Digital India is?

Do you know what US NSA surveillance program does? And all of the serious privacy and abuse issues it has raise? Well, Digital India will enable Modi and his fellow Hindu extremists to do worse things with non-Hindu and liberal Indians who oppose Modi's policies.

BTW, Sangh Parivar is very active on university campuses around the world, including those in North America. Here's an excerpt from a recent report on Hindu Nationalism in the United States:

"Sangh-affiliated Hindu Students Council (HSC) student groups were present on 78 U.S. and Canadian university and college campuses, including those of Duke University, Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University, New York University, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Stanford University, Syracuse University, University of California at Berkeley, Irvine, and San Diego, University of Ottawa, and University of Texas at Austin and Houston"

http://www.sacw.net/IMG/pdf/US_HinduNationalism_Nonprofits.pdf

 

[Soumitra]

Do you know what US NSA surveillance program does? And all of the serious privacy and abuse issues it has raise? Well, Digital India will enable Modi and his fellow Hindu extremists to do worse things with non-Hindu and liberal Indians who oppose Modi's policies.

As I expected you know zilch about the program. I doubt you even visited the website of program Digital India Programme | Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India

The objectives of the program are

Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen

• Availability of high speed internet as a core utility for delivery of services to citizens
• Cradle to grave digital identity that is unique, lifelong, online and authenticable to every citizen
• Mobile phone & bank account enabling citizen participation in digital & financial space
• Easy access to a Common Service Centre
• Shareable private space on a public cloud
• Safe and secure cyber-space

Governance & Services on Demand

• Seamlessly integrated services across departments or jurisdictions
• Availability of services in real time from online & mobile platforms
• All citizen entitlements to be portable and available on the cloud
• Digitally transformed services for improving ease of doing business
• Making financial transactions electronic & cashless
• Leveraging Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) for decision support systems & development

Digital Empowerment of Citizens

• Universal digital literacy
• Universally accessible digital resources
• Availability of digital resources / services in Indian languages
• Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance
• Citizens not required to physically submit Govt. documents / certificates

Tell me how any of this is related to spying on the citizens or as you are saying enable Modi and his fellow Hindu extremists to do worse things with non-Hindu and liberal Indians who oppose Modi's policies.

Before comparing Digital India to NSA program you should have researched what the NSA program is. Since you seem to be too lazy to use google to do the research I am spoon feeding the same to you

PRISM

is a clandestine[1] surveillance program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from at least nine major US internet companies.[2][3][4] Since 2001 the United States government has increased its scope for such surveillance, and so this program was launched in 2007.

PRISM is a government code name for a data-collection effort known officially by the SIGAD US-984XN.[5][6] The PRISM program collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms.[7] The NSA can use these PRISM requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the internet backbone, to focus on stored data that telecommunication filtering systems discarded earlier,[8][9] and to get data that is easier to handle, among other things.[10]

BTW, Sangh Parivar is very active on university campuses around the world, including those in North America. Here's an excerpt from a recent report on Hindu Nationalism in the United States:

"Sangh-affiliated Hindu Students Council (HSC) student groups were present on 78 U.S. and Canadian university and college campuses, including those of Duke University, Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University, New York University, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Stanford University, Syracuse University, University of California at Berkeley, Irvine, and San Diego, University of Ottawa, and University of Texas at Austin and Houston"

http://www.sacw.net/IMG/pdf/US_HinduNationalism_Nonprofits.pdf

How is this drivel remotedly related to Digital India? There are thousands of Hindu students from India studying in these universities So what is wrong about them having their own student groups?

 

[RiazHaq]

Human Rights Advocacy Groups Oppose #India's #modiinsiliconvalley | NBC Bay Area. #BJP #ModiInUSA Human Rights Advocacy Groups Oppose Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bay Area Visit | NBC Bay Area … via @nbcbayarea

News that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to hobnob with the Bay Area’s leading tech executives has sparked outrage among human rights advocacy groups.
National advocacy group Sikhs For Justice plans to protest Modi’s visit at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters on Sunday morning and, later in the day, outside the SAP Center.

The group argues that Modi’s tenure as Indian's leaader has resulted in deteriorating religious freedom for its citizens. They allege that he is aggressively trying to turn the world’s largest democracy into a Hindu nation through forced conversion of Muslims and Christians.
Sikhs For Justice has also offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who poses specific questions to Zuckerberg and Modi regarding the latter’s treatment of Sikhs.

"We urge everyone to remind [Facebook CEO Mark] Zuckerberg that hosting a known human rights violator runs counter to the core American value of upholding religious freedom,” said Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an attorney and legal advisor for Sikhs For Justice.
Modi, who was in the United States last September, is slated to visit Tesla and Google and meet with Indian-American startup founders. He believes that the technological innovation that these companies are known for can help to raise the standard of living in India.

The SAP center is expected to be at full capacity for Sunday evening's event. More than 45,000 people requested tickets to hear Modi speak, but the arena can only hold 18,000. Video screens will be set up outside to accommodate those who were unable to secure a spot inside.`

 

[somebozo]

In business there will always be a pro and opposing sides..Haq musing blog has taken something of a normal business behavior and present it as some kind of mega doom alert..

 

[Tiger Genie]

70% of Silicon Valley, 99.999% of Indians and 99.9999% of Pakistanis don't now what Digital India means.