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Op-ed November 6, 2021

On COVID-19 vaccination, don’t be complacent

Vaccine demand can be generated through the development of targeted action plans addressing both access issues and hesitancy. With only a third of the eligible population fully vaccinated, we don’t have the luxury of time

Blog November 1, 2021

Civil Society Shouldn’t Be a Substitute for the State’s Lack of Data Capacity

By Harsh Vardhan Pachisia

As a lesson from this pandemic, efforts need to be undertaken by the government to strengthen its primary role in the data pipeline— proper and timely distribution of data.

Journal Article October 19, 2021

Open Data a Critical Tool for Crises: Can India Make Better Use of it?

By Sam Neufeld & Sridhar Ganapathy

Extensive efforts to provide the foundational policies and environment for open data to thrive need to be supported by substantial reform to effectively leverage open data for time-sensitive functions like disaster relief.

Op-ed October 11, 2021

Opinion | PMAY’s subsidy burden will become unmanageable. Govt must look at the PPP model

By , Anushka Bhansali & Vibhav Mariwala

PMAY is an excellent first step to put mechanisms in place for directly reaching the beneficiaries but it has to evolve so it stays relevant and can be scaled up going ahead.

Journal Article October 5, 2021

Representative estimates of COVID-19 infection fatality rates from four locations in India: cross-sectional study

By Rebecca Cai, Paul Novosad, Vaidehi Tandel, Sam Asher & Dr. Anup Malani

In this paper, the authors estimate age-and gender-specific mortality risk among all SARS-CoV-2 infections in four settings in India, and compare age trends in mortality with similar estimates in high-income countries

Paper September 27, 2021

Behaviour change communication strategy for COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

By , Shilpa Rao, Sofia Imad & Anushka Bhansali

This vaccine acceptance campaign strategic document outlines our initial research findings, how our findings translated into a communication strategy with a strong identity, messaging matrix, segmentation and a final design look and feel

Journal Article September 14, 2021

An integrated approach to competition regulation and data protection in India

By Vikram Sinha & Sharmadha Srinivasan

This essay analyses the role of data in competition regulation and data protection

Blog September 1, 2021

A shortage of private sector COVID beds in Mumbai?

By Karan Makkar

During peak COVID-19 transmission, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) increased bed capacity by constructing jumbo field hospitals and requiring private hospitals to set aside some of their beds for COVID patients

Op-ed August 27, 2021

Opinion | What Mandaviya and Vaishnaw must do

By Vibhav Mariwala & Nikita Kwatra

Since the start of the pandemic in India, there have been several instances where patients’ health data has been breached such as the accidental leak of Covid-19 data on Delhi government portals in January.

Journal Article August 24, 2021

Regulating digital ecosystems: bridging the gap between competition policy and data protection

By Vikram Sinha & Sharmadha Srinivasan

This article identifies the way data shapes digital ecosystems and addresses the interaction between these ecosystems and privacy regulations

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