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Andhra govt launches WhatsApp governance model

In the first such initiative across the country, the Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday launched its “WhatsApp governance model” under ‘Mana Mitra’ which would enable the public to avail 161 services through the messaging app.

Taxing gatekeepers~I

By 2016-17, Facebook had designed a business model that aimed at maximising the ‘user engagement’, that is how much time users spent on their platform, and started collecting data on what they liked and shared.

Odisha: EOW cracks multi-crore cybercrimes

Armed with dexterity in skill of its manpower, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police has cracked as many as 39 major cybercrimes involving crores of rupees with the operational base of the fraud owing its genesis to outside the State and overseas.

Infocracy and necropolitics

Today politics has made false gods and false villains. The greatest threat to the state, Aristotle said, is not faction but distraction. The digital media ecosystem has disempowered the public sphere which has undermined democratic discourse. Infocrats and practitioners of necropolitics have taken full advantage of the current age of abundant distraction