Technology in mental health care
WITH the world becoming increasingly aware of the snowballing mental health (MH) crisis, there has been a corresponding rise in digital-based solutions designed to respond and scale the delivery of…
Innovation-driven development strategy to build a strong China in science and technology
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has taken innovation as the primary driving…
Data services: Economy needs streamlining
No national policy can be comprehensive and durable unless backed by robust data derived from reliable sources and made available in a timely manner to policy managers. It may be…
Mobile broadband emerging as life-saving technology?
Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the board with mobile services, especially mobile broadband emerging as a lifesaving technology. However, given the economic climate, relief to the common man to…
Investing in technology sector: a primer — I
Since the beginning of 2020, one investment sector has stood out globally through all the Covid-19 pandemic induced volatility in markets, economies and industries – that of the Information and…
Investing in technology sector—a primer—II
The Part I of this series of articles on investing in information and communications technology (tech) sector highlighted the significant out-performance of this sector during the last several years and…
Investing in technology sector: III – Software segment (a)
Parts I and II of this series dealt with the hardware category of the technology sector. In Part III we take a look at the software category and its sub-segments.…
Investing in technology sector: Part IV – software segment (b)
The previous article in this series provided an overview of the foundational software for ICT (Information and Communications Technology) i.e. operating system software and infrastructure software. Before looking at actual…
Racist technology
Face recognition technology may sound futuristic, or perhaps too abstract to seem harmful. But we are already living in a reality in which face recognition and other forms of biometric…
Focus on use of latest technology in higher education stressed
Extensive use of the latest technology is a key element of restructuring the higher education sector which focuses on the changes necessary due to the circumstances, higher education faces due…
