I had a chance to see efforts in Singapore in Interactive Digital Media (IDM) area. I was asked to serve on an International Panel to review this program. The program received about US $ 350 Million (S $500M) to build…
Sharing your Visualizaion
After sites that allow you to share, pictures (Flickr), videos (YouTube), thoughts (blogs), now there is a site that will allow you to share not just your data but your visualizations. As reported in NYT, At an experimental Web site,…
Wealth as cure for India’s Caste bias
NYT has a very interesting article about Dalits in India. It is about a transformation taking place in India: Mr. Prasad was born into the Pasi community, once considered untouchable on the ancient Hindu caste order. Today, a chain-smoking, irrepressible…
Economic gains are limited in India
After having visited Gurgaon and other places and seeing great buildings and shopping malls in India, I was very pleased about economic gains in India. Today I read a very sobering article in Times of India. According to latest figures,…
Carrot works in research
I was browsing thru about 40 research proposals submitted in response to a request for proosal (for obvious reasons no details on the agency and the program). This agency requested proposals in an area –lets call it XY — and…