Avantika Banerjee

This past week I attended a seminar on “Harnessing Innovation: Fostering National Innovation for Global Development” at the UN Head Quarters. The seminar brought together a diverse set of researchers from universities, state agencies and international agencies; with the focus being on developing a come global cooperative approach to measuring innovation and its impact on national as…

Just until yesterday, the King Digital Entertainment Candy Crush IPO priced at $22.50 was the talk of the town. Even though there were concerns as voiced by EEDAR vice president of insights Jesse Divinch “Much like the social-gaming sector, the mobile market can be just a volatile. Success with one game — or even a few —…

I found a list on The Next Web of a list of  “50 people in NYC’s tech scene that you need to know”. I liked this particular list because of the diversity of backgrounds of the people on the list, the innovative ideas they are working and more importantly the inclusion of proportionately larger number of women.…

I came across three articles  from the Journal Of Adolescence and a chapter from the book “Child and Adolescent Mental Health” (citations at the bottom of this post) studying the concept of media usage vis-a-vis the internet, the interaction of young adolescence (the digital natives) with the digital medium, the effect this has on the evolution of…

The New York Times, Mondaq, the FTC and more recently the OII all seem to be talking about the concept of Internet of Things i.e. the seamless connectivity of digital devices which allows them to communicate/talk to each other, leading to automation of processes. For example “Consumers already are able to use their mobile phones…

I found a card game on privacy that can be used for education purposes and creating awareness. I think it is such a great idea to introduce school children to concepts such as privacy, security and what living and working in the online world entails, through the means of simple games.

I have been hearing so much about Ruby on Rails of late, just thought I would look up some free resources for learning about it. #SGE has a great post on free resources. 

I had written a post for the India Law and Technology Blog  which I am re-posting here. Prof. Ponnurangam PK (PK) and Niharika Sachdeva from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi have recently published “Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0.” This report provides a useful insight into the common attitudes, awareness levels and misconceptions that…

The IETF was set up in 1986; It was one of the institutions set up during those early days to act as a central standards and governance body for the internet. Most of the internet protocols regarding the world wide web, were a product of the consensus and governance process of the IETF. Tm Wu…

I found ‘A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace‘ written by John Perry Barlow; Probably one of the first few writings around the conversation of internet governance and policies.