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Fortinet is cautioning parents to supervise children’s online activities and educate them on safe surfing. The Internet provides unprecedented opportunities for children to communicate, learn and develop new skills. However,parents need to be aware that predators lurk online and could potentially expose children to inappropriate content, criminal behavior and falsehoods.   According to a UNESCOglobal survey on cyberbullying coveringover 7,600 children and youth (aged 8–17 years old) in 25 countries, the highestrate of cyberbullying is in Asia—China (70%), Singapore (58%), and India (53%). China and Singapore were also the only…

“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds” – A famous saying by Thomas Merton, holds true for the past, present and the future. Mental health is a major concern worldwide and also in India. Dr. Brock Chisholm, the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1954, had declared, “Without mental health there can be no true physical health.” Even after sixty years later, the scenario has not altered much.   Psychological counselling: A…

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)has brought about an unprecedented change in the European data protection laws after more than 20 years. It strengthens the data rights of EU residents and harmonizes data protection laws across all member states, thus designating individual choice as a priority over everything else. GDPR was enacted two years ago while its enforcement across all 28 EU countries came into effect at midnight on 25 May 2018. “The GDPR will replace the 1995 Data Protection Directive and is aimed at protecting EU citizens’ personal data in…

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has released its much-awaited draft National Telecom Policy 2018(NTP-18) on May 2, 2018, for public comments. The policy is re-named as National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP) 2018, keeping with the digital technology trends.   One of the key strategies in the draft talks of recognising spectrum as a key natural resource for public benefit to achieve India’s socio-economic goals. On spectrum pricing, it said there should be optimal pricing of spectrum to ensure sustainable and affordable access to digital communications and simplifying the process of…

A new-data protection law – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) being rolled out on May 25 – is the most comprehensive set of rules being put forward globally to strengthen data protection and privacy of users.   However only a third of India’s IT services firms are compliant with the European data protection law to be effective in May, say analysts, warning that potential damages of any breach of privacy of user data from the continent could cost companies as much as 4per cent of their revenue.   The…

Friends, Of late, you might have been in the midst of many revelations and exposes, both nationally and internationally. Every country had its own epoch-making and mind-stirring revelations. Some of them were referred as scams, others flipside of governance structure, a third category has been dubbed as concocted fantasies, and fourth were termed as political vilification. In the U.S., it was the unfortunate incident of data harvesting and sharing clandestinely that shook the digital world. Everyone is holding Cambridge Analytica (CA) as the villain of the day. The name of…

WhatsApp is an extremely popular mobile messaging service with more than 1 billion daily users. It is really an amazing figure, and the company prides itself in the apparent security it affords for all its users. Some of your most personal moments are shared with WhatsApp, which is why WhatsApp had built an end-to-end encryption system into the latest versions of the app. Back in May 2016, WhatsApp has introduced this end-to-end encryption for all its users across its platform. With end-to-end encryption, your messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents,…

As a rule, the ‘how’ of the matter weighs more than the ‘what’ of the matter. Confusing? Well not really. A simple example makes it clearer: Agriculture is an important sector of the Indian economy. Hence, creative, innovative and cost-effective solutions to the challenges this sector faces are of paramount importance. Of course, some of these solutions are results of painstakingly long research and development processes, some are application of traditional methodologies handed over across generations and some are an amalgamation of both the traditional and the modern. Farmers in…

The Agriculture sector in India is the core basis for food security and poverty alleviation. It also has an important role for nutritional security and sustainable development. The contribution to the GDP although declining is still the largest and around 60 % of the population dependent on agriculture as the primary means of livelihood. Thus development of this sector has been very crucial. As a nation some milestones of this development would include: Why is Penetration of Technology so Important? Finance Minister Arun Jaitley mentioned to double farmers’ income by 2022.…

Manoj K Dash, Team Leader, Humanitarian Response Arm – CAF India   Manoj possesses over 19 years of rich experience in sustainable development issues related to social sector particularly in Disaster Management, DRR, Climate Change, and Information Technology. He has previously worked with the Government of India, UNDP, PCI India, Centurion University, Sphere India and Integrated Volunteers Network.   He has been involved in more than 31 disaster response, rehabilitation and recovery projects in different situations such as flood, cyclone, tsunami, drought, earthquake and landslides in states of Odisha, Jharkhand,…