Online systems may help farmers and customers get better prices, but who controls Big Data?
Online systems may help farmers and customers get better prices, but who controls Big Data? Online systems bring better prices for producers and consumers. But corporations and states could easily misappropriate the data produced in the process. Danish Siddiqui /Reuters Pravin Venkatesh* has been running a modest kirana store in a corner of Bengaluru’s Malleswaram for approximately two decades, but over the last two years, he’s taken a technological leap. Armed with just a mobile phone, a Point of Sale system and a barcode scanner, Venkatesh is able to assemble his stocks based on dai...