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Article content By Raywat Deonandan Recently, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones was asked on CBC Radio why Ontario had waited so long to enact COVID-19 restrictions doctors and scientists had been pleading for. Earlier, Ontario’s Science Table had observed a worrying growth trend in cases and ICU usage and had forecast a dire, explosive situation weeks away. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Deonandan: How Ontario fell for the 'balanced' COVID response myth Back to video Jones replied, “We wanted to make sure that the modelling was actua...

Telecommuting will make Boston share the wealth Jeff Howe © Federico Gastaldi for the Boston Globe There’s a saying in technology circles, commonly ascribed to the futurist Roy Amara, that we tend to overestimate the short-term impacts of a new technology but underestimate its long-term consequences. The telephone, commercial air travel, and even the Internet all failed to live up to their initial hype but ultimately transformed our culture and the economy. Popular Searches Amara’s Law goes a long way toward explaining our current moment. Futurists have been pronouncing ...

Old ways of working and living will give way to a ‘polycentric’ region. By Jeff Howe Federico Gastaldi for the Boston Globe There’s a saying in technology circles, commonly ascribed to the futurist Roy Amara, that we tend to overestimate the short-term impacts of a new technology but underestimate its long-term consequences. The telephone, commercial air travel, and even the Internet all failed to live up to their initial hype but ultimately transformed our culture and the economy. Amara’s Law goes a long way toward explaining our current moment. Futurists have been pronouncing the co...

​​ Indias public digital infrastructure — in many ways, an immense online bureaucracy — is an outlier to this principle. The effort was written-off in the short run, but, less than a decade after it was introduced, it has mobilized technology at the grass-roots, tapping into the countrys huge domestic potential. India is now ready to share its experience with the developing world.

While it began with Manmohan Singh's govt, Aadhaar became the backbone of India’s public digital infrastructure in 2014 when PM Modi combined it with his govt’s Jan Dhan initiative