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New Delhi: CSIR Institutions CSIR-NISTADS and CSIR-NISCAIR, New Delhi jointly organized a half-day session on “A Policy Dialogue on COVID-19 Vaccine from Self-Reliance to Global Leadership: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Imperatives in COVID Era” recently. This event was organised to celebrate the National Science Day and to have a policy discourse from eminent personalities on the journey of indigenous development of the COVID-19 vaccine in the midst of the pandemic. It focussed on the opportunities available, the challenges faced and the policy imperatives for a way forward to become a global leader not only in the COVID-19 vaccine but also in vaccines in general.
The boss of Channel 4 has called for the regulation of partisan social media and claimed that online content can pose a huge danger to young people.
Chief executive Alex Mahon yesterday told an event for the release of a report on levels of public trust that political polarisation is being fuelled by social media content which create bubbles and echo chambers .
At a meeting which included former Cabinet minister Baroness Morgan and veteran journalist Andrew Neil, she said unregulated social media poses a danger to young people whose rates of self-esteem are plummeting .
Ms Mahon was supported by former Culture Secretary Baroness Morgan, who called for a clampdown on dubious and downright deliberately fake online information and urged the Government to get on with it .
Edelman names former OMG comms chief to lead APAC marketing Details 02 March 2021
Edelman has appointed Neeraj Khanna as its head of marketing for Asia Pacific. In his new role, Khanna (pictured) will lead the network s regional marketing strategy, focused on elevating thought leadership and integrated communications work across the region. He is also tasked to drive awareness of product and practice innovations in areas such as big data and analytics, digital, public affairs, reputation management, employee engagement and brand storytelling across Edelman s core industry sectors. Khanna reports to Bob Grove, chief client and operating officer at Edelman APAC.
Khanna joins Edelman from the media industry, where he last served as regional marketing communication director, APAC at Omnicom Media Group (OMG) for three years. During his time there, he led the marketing and communications efforts of OMG s agencies such as OMD and PHD across
Details 02 March 2021
The recent chronicles of the digital currency world have become the topic du jour, from Tesla buying US $1.5 billion in bitcoin, to regulatory warnings, to the U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressing her concern over the cryptocurrency. Closer to home, the central banks of China and UAE have launched a joint Hong Kong-Thailand initiative to explore the capabilities of Central Bank Digital Currencies, or “CBDCs”.
Some start-ups I have spoken to in the cryptocurrency space feel as though they are at the mercy of these narratives and the major competing forces behind them. Fear, uncertainty or doubt (or FUD ) is no stranger to the sector, but what has once resided on the likes of Twitter, Reddit and Telegram is now heavily in the mainstream. So this begs the question, what five things can brands in the cryptocurrency space do to protect their reputation and get on the front foot?