Category: Internet and Society
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Why Is It So Hard To Start A Business in India?
I’ve been in the startup trenches in India for the last three years. I’m currently the CEO of Findable.in, a location-based product search platform based in India, and I’m also the Founding Partner of India Internet Group, an early stage venture capital fund based in Mumbai, Delhi and New York. I think this is the best…
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The New Frontiers of Efficiency at Scale: Obama’s New Organizers and Data Scientists
The election of President Obama in 2008 was by no means always the expected outcome. As analysts look back and analyze what gave him the edge over strong candidates such as Hillary Clinton in the primaries and then John McCain, many point to the Obama’s team of “New Organizers”. Four years later, the re-election of Obama…
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Privacy, the Filter Bubble and Social Networking: Some Difficult Tradeoffs
Presumably, everyone values their privacy. The way the internet and the online is evolving, suggests otherwise. Never before in history has so much information about individuals been available so easily on a platform. People willingly share information online with their friends, acquaintances, and very often, even strangers. So does that mean, people have suddenly stopped…
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Clay Shirky – The Psychological Underpinnings of the Internet and its Implications for Society and Power
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, does an excellent job of describing the psychological underpinnings of the internet and its implications for organising and distribution of power. He begins by framing our understanding of the evolution of the internet. From a point where the internet was seen as a…
Anirudh Suri 