GAFA ( aka Monopoly V 2.0 ? )

 

 

Monopoly V 1.0 , was East India Company

Extract :

By 1803, at the height of its rule in India, the East India company had a private army of about 260,000—twice the size of the British Army, with Indian revenues of £13,464,561 (equivalent to £229.9 million in 2019 = $ 297 million ) and expenses of £14,017,473 (equivalent to £239.3 million in 2019).^[17][18] 

The company eventually came to rule large areas of India with its private armies, exercising military power and seizing administrative functions.^[19] 

Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 and lasted until 1858, when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown's assuming direct control of the Indian subcontinent in the form of the new British Raj.

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Fast forward by 200 years, and now we have,

Monopoly V 2.0 ( aka, GAFA = Google + Apple + Facebook + Amazon )

Between them, their current market-cap is approx. $ 5 Trillion ( approx. 2 TIMES of India’s GDP in 2020 )

About 16,835 times the revenue that East India Company earned 200 years ago

To know how much revenues GAFA companies earned in recent years, click here

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Who all are worried about GAFA monopoly ?

Following Industry Leaders :

Vijay Shekhar Sharma   [ Paytm  /  vss@paytm.com ]

Ø  Yashish Dahiya             [ PolicyBazaar  /  yashish@policybazaar.com / alok@policybazaar.com ]

Ø  Murugavel  jankiraman  [ Matrimony.com  /  murugavel@matrimony.com ]

Ø  Vishwas Patel  ……………..[ CC Avenue / vishwas@avenue.info ]

Ø  Ankush Sachdev ………[ ShareChat / ankush@sharechat.co / press@sharechat.co ]

Ø  Dr Ritesh Malik             [ Innov8 / dr@innov8.work / hello@oyoworkspaces.com ]

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How are they planning to challenge GAFA monopoly ?

They are joining hands to seek support from the Govt for an OVERARCHING DIGITAL ECO-SYSTEM

Context :

Startup Founders Bat for an Indian App Store

Extract :

Ø  A number of leading technology entrepreneurs are joining hands to petition the government seeking support to create an overarching Indian digital app ecosystem to counter what they view as the dominance of US technology giants Google and Apple.

Ø  At a meeting on Tuesday, the group discussed ways to establish a large-scale platform that will host local apps and break the duopoly of Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store, as well as a national-level lobby group to represent their interests, people privy to discussions told ET.

Ø  "If India has net neutrality, why can't we have app neutrality," said Janakiraman, who added that over 80% of those accessing the internet in India do so through digital applications and "it can't be completely controlled by Google since they own the Play Store."

Ø  "The company is forcing developers to use its own payment gateway, it is also controlling how ads appear and there are issues on search; they seem to have an unabated power over the entire ecosystem which we are against," said Patel.

Ø  The group plans to approach the Ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) to push the case for an Indian app store

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Dear Shri RaviShankar Prasadji,

 

Governments – and Startups – around the World are worried about getting decimated by GAFA’s ever-growing monopoly – and their ownership of entire Internet-based digital content

By leveraging this surreptitiously acquired OWNERSHIP of Private Personal Data of 400 million Indian Users , these companies are annually earning BILLIONS of dollars – without sharing a single rupee with the real data-owners

Even if you were to agree with industry-leaders listed above to set-up an Indian App Store, it should be only the very FIRST STEP, towards that OVERARCHING DIGITAL ECO-SYSTEM

I urge you to follow this up with the NEXT BIG STEP , described in my following emails :

Ø  Digital Dividend from Demographic Data [ 4 D ]…………………..... [ 14 Feb 2019 ]

Ø  SARAL ( Single  Authentic  Registration for Anywhere  Login )…[ 10 Feb 2019 ]

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 01 Oct 2020

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Related Radings :

Ø  A Greed-Ship named Facebook

Ø  Time for the Next Step

 

 

Thank You, Shri Rajesh Bushan

 

Thank You, Shri Rajesh Bushan

[ Health Secretary / secyhfw@nic.in ]

 

 

In my  email to Cabinet Ministers ( including to Dr Harshvardhanji ) 2 days back , I requested for following announcement  :

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Sir

We do NOT have an option !

Your public announcement re the availability of Rs 80,000 crore, would go a long way to assuage the fears of our citizen - especially our poor brethren

Whereas vaccine testing / production / distribution, cannot be expedited beyond a limit , your ANNOUNCEMENT can be ( should be ) made tomorrow !

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Then, this morning ( 30 Sept ) I came across the following news report :

 

Don't agree with calculation of Rs 80,000cr for Covid vaccine distribution in India: Health ministry 

Extract :

Ø  Responding, Bhushan said, "We do not agree by the calculation of Rs 80,000 crore. The government has made a national committee on vaccine experts and five meetings have taken place till now."

 

Ø  In these meetings, we have mulled over the process of Covid-19 vaccine distribution and the amount required for it in terms of prioritisation of population and the staggered immunisation for this prioritisation.

 We have calculated the amount required in the meetings and currently, that amount is available with the government," said Bhushan.

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Related Reading :

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2020/09/thank-you-adar-poonawala.html

with regards,

hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 30 sept 2020

 

National Clinical Registry on Covid

 

National Clinical Registry on Covid

 

Context :

Centre launches National Clinical Registry of Covid-19 and vaccine portal / 29 Sep 2020

 

Extract :

Union health minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Monday launched the National Clinical Registry and a vaccine portal aimed at,

 

Ø  Collecting quality real-time clinical data on coronavirus disease (Covid-19) patients from hospitals and laboratories

 

Ø  It will also document India’s efforts towards developing vaccines against the viral disease

 

Ø  The need for maintaining a registry was felt as documentation and description of people infected by Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and their course of illness is imperative for obtaining useful information about the disease and its behavior in various groups of patients.

 

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National Clinical Registry

Extract :

Primary Objectives

1.	To develop National Clinical COVID-19 registry to collect data regarding clinical and laboratory features, treatments, and outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in India.
2.	To study the frequency, clinical and laboratory features, treatments, and outcomes of COVID-19 related multisystem inflammatory disorder in children and adolescents by analyzing the national COVID-19 registry.

Secondary Objectives

1.	To utilize data to answer research questions on COVID -19 including natural course of disease, spectrum of disease, prognostic factors, outcomes data, medications, health systems and context specific questions such as COVID-19 in Tuberculosis, Malnutrition etc.
2.	To serve as a platform for additional clinical research studies in selected sites.
3.	To collect follow-up data of discharged COVID 19 patients, if possible.

     The registry follows a hub and spoke model with primary data being

     collected in the electronic data capture form by satellite centers (dedicated

     COVID-19 hospitals) which are being trained, mentored and supervised by

     medical institutes of national repute chosen region-wise.

    
     Data management including the development of the electronic data capture

     form is being done by ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS).

 

 FAQ :

The Registry is being rolled out in phases. The first phase includes 50 satellite sites mentored by 14 Regional Registry Sites

 

Ø  Expression of Interest is being invited from Dedicated Covid Hospitals ( DCH ), and Dedicated Covid Health Centres ( DCHC ), both public and private

 

Ø  No cost is incurred to collaborate as Registry Site

 

Ø  All COVID-19 confirmed patients admitted in the participating sites

 

 

Ø  Data re:

       #   clinical features ,

       #   laboratory investigations,

       #   treatment  ,  and

       #   outcome ,

    are being collected

Ø  Trends in presentation and management of disease can be analyzed from the collected data. This analysis may help both clinicians and policymakers to take better informed decisions

 

Ø  Only data from hospital records are being collected ; there is no interference with the standard practice of clinical care as followed in individual hospitals

 

Ø  Patient identifiers are not being collected

 

Ø  A data management team under the overarching supervision of the Steering Committee , which is constituted of experts, will analyze the data

  Periodic reports generated from the Registry data will be available on ICMR website

 

Ø  The inclusion of retrospective data has been planned in the next phase

 

Ø  Provisions will be made such that the current registry can be compatibly linked with other data sources for more comprehensive understanding of the disease

 

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Dear Dr HarshVardhanji,

 

Many thanks for considering my suggestion in the following e-mail :

Rationing of Covid Vaccine ? ……………………………………………[ 06 July 2020 ]

 

Where I suggested collection of data as follows :

 

#   Data about “ Persons already infected ( cured / died / under treatment ) “

 

#   Data about “ Persons not infected so far “ – and needing vaccination

 

 

If meticulously compiled and centrally processed ( with help of Artificial Intelligence ), following data, compiled uniformly at source, could determine those

 

 “ VACCINATION  PRIORITIES “ :

 

 

 

[ A ]   PERSONAL  DATA

 

         Ø  Name / Birthdate ( for Age ) / Gendre / Contact Details / Aadhar

             number

 

 

[ B ]   LOCATION  DATA

 

         Ø  Permanent Address / Current Address ( State – Jilla – City – locality ) /

             Red Zone / Containment Areas

 

             

 

 

[ C ]   FAMILY  DATA

 

         Ø  Details of Parents / Siblings

 

 

[ D ]  HEALTH  HISTORY

 

         Ø  Details of recent illnesses - morbidity / Medicines given ( including for

             Covid treatment ) / Hospitals where treated / Names & License

             Number of Doctor who treated

             

             

 

 

[ E ]   ETHNIC  DATA

 

         Ø  Race / Religion  / Language ( Mother tongue )

 

 

[ F ]  EDUCATIONAL  DATA

 

        Ø  Graduate – Under Graduate – Illiterate etc

 

 

[ G ]  EMPLOYMENT  DATA

 

        Ø  Employed – Unemployed – Self employed

 

 

[ H ]  INCOME  DATA

 

         Ø  Monthly Income ( to determine whether RICH – MIDDLE CLASS –

             POOR )

 

If implemented , my suggestion ( for using AI to process trillions of bytes of data ) , will help not only in establishing who ( out of our 700 million citizen ) gets first / second / third , chance to get vaccinated, but it will also prevent black marketing of the vaccine

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  30 Sept 2020

 

 

Supreme Proposes : Can e-Courts dispose ?

 

 

Context :

One India /  11 Sept 2020 :

Should convicted politicians be barred for life from contesting polls asks SC

Extract :

Ø  The court was hearing a case to ensure speedy trials in 4,442 criminal cases pending against former and sitting MPs and MLAs across states. The court asked the centre to respond to a new prayer seeking a life ban on politicians convicted of heinous offences from contesting elections

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Business Line / 12 Sept 2020

New norms for publishing candidates’ criminal record

Extract :

Ø  The candidates and political parties will have to publish details of contestants’ criminal antecedents in newspapers and on television first within the first four days of the last date of withdrawal of nominations, the Election Commission decided at a meeting here on Friday.

Ø  In a statement the Commission said that the second publicity for criminal antecedents has to be within five to eight days of the last date of withdrawal of nominations while the third publicity should be from the ninth day till the last day of campaigning, which happens two days before voting day.

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Times of India / 17 Sept 2020

SC direction to expedite trial against legislators is welcome : Govt

Extract :

With 4,442 cases pending against sitting and former MPs and MLAs, the Union government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it would welcome any direction from the court for speeding up the trials in the cases pending for years against elected representatives.

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Times of India / 18 Sept 2020

Send plan within a week to speed up trials of lawmakers: SC  

Extract :

Ø  Setting off alarm bells for chief ministers, MPs and MLAs against whom trials in criminal cases have been pending for years, the Supreme Court , on Thursday asked HCs to submit in a week, action plans to expeditiously complete trial proceedings in 4,442 criminal and corruption cases against sitting and ex-legislators 

Ø  As many as 2,556 cases are pending against sitting MPs and MLAs . Among CMs, Telengana’s K Chandrasekhar Rao leads the telly with 64 criminal cases , followed by Andhra Pradesh’s Y S Jaganmohan Reddy with 38 criminal cases

 

Ø  A bench of Justices N V Ramana, Surya Kant and Hrishikesh Roy asked chief justices of each HC to formulate an action plan on requirement of Special Courts for exclusive trials of criminal cases against sitting and former legislators , while keeping in view following parameters :

#   Total no of pending cases in each district

#   No of Special Courts required for speedy trials

#   Existing number of Special courts

#   No of judges and subject categories of pending cases

#   Tenure of the judges to be designated

#   No of cases to be assigned to each judge

#   Expected time for disposal of cases

#   Distance between the designated courts

#   Requirement of Infrastructure

The Bench also reminded the HC CJs about the 2018 SC judgement which has ruled that if a stay on trial granted by HC was more than 6 months old, then the trial court could proceed with the trial as if there was no stay

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2019 : Nightmare Year ? ………………………………………………….[ 12 Dec 2017 ]

 

Extract :

“ Govt to set up 12 special courts to try 1,581 MPs and MLAs “

Highlights :

·         228………. Members of Parliament to be tried in two special courts

·         13,500 … Approx number of total pending cases

·         1,125 ….. Number of cases that each special court will have to decide in a year

·         242……..  Number of days trial courts normally function in a year

·         4.6………  Ave number of cases per day, each special court will have to dispose off

 

I assume that,

 

·    It will be May 2018 , by the time these Special Courts start working – more than 4 YEARS after the Supreme Court directed the Centre to set up these courts

·    These “ Super Efficient “ courts will refuse to grant any “ Postponement Dates “ to the accused and not only conclude within ONE HOUR ( whether the accused was guilty or not ) but also announce the VERDICT , on the spot ( remember , 4.6 cases / day ? )

·    There cannot be any “ Appeal “ against the judgements of these special courts

·    Some 365 MPs / MLAs ( out of those 1581 accused ) will be found GUILTY

·   The Speakers of the Lok Sabha / Rajya Sabha , will get court order copies within 7 days

·   The Speakers will disqualify, within 7 days, those MPs / MLAs who are declared guilty and who have been handed out sentences of 5 years or more

·    The Election Commission will receive these “ Disqualification Notifications “ in 7 days

·    The Election Commission will announce re-election dates within 30 days for seats falling vacant

·    These Elections will start from Dec 2018  and stretch throughout 365 days of 2019

·   To ensure proper / timely availability of Election officers / police / EVMs / polling booths / presiding officers / school-teachers / transport etc , spread over 28 States , no more than ONE ELECTION will be conducted PER DAY ( - one for each of 365 days of 2019 ! )

 

I had envisaged this scenario , as far back as MAY  2014 , in :

AllSeasons Are Election Seasons

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-seasons-are-election-seasons.html

2019 will be a nightmare year , not only for the politicians but also for the voters !

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Now, in past 2 years, how many cases have these 12 Special Courts tried ?

( source : https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/1097-criminal-cases-pending-against-mps-mlas-before-special-courts-centre-tells-/316403  / 11 Sept 2018 )

Extract :

The Ministry of Law and Justice in an affidavit told the court that there are a dozen courts -- six sessions and five magistrate courts (in the case of Tamil Nadu, the class of the court has not been indicated). As many as 1,233 criminal cases involving MPs and MLAs were transferred to these courts.

Of these 1,233 cases, 136 have been disposed of and 1,097 are pending.

The Centre's reply came in response to August 21 order of the top court seeking to know the number of special courts that have been set up following its December 14, 2017 order and the number of cases pending before these courts

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At  this rate , how many special Courts would be needed to dispose off all the cases by Dec 2021 ?

How does the following sound ?

Ø  136 cases by 12 courts = 12 cases / court , in one year

Ø  That means 12 courts would need 100 years to dispose off 1233 cases

Ø  Alternately, we need 100 Special Courts to dispose off these 1233 cases in 1 year

Obviously, this just cannot happen ! Central Government has neither the resources nor the WILL , to set up 100 Physical Courts anytime soon !

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So , what is the alternative ?

E Courts , is the only answer

In past few months, we have come across following examples of VIRTUAL GOVERNANCE :

Ø  Supreme Court conducting trials / hearings using Video-Conferencing

Ø  High Courts doing likewise

Ø  Even Lok Sabha allowing MPs to participate remotely

Ø  PM having e-conferences with State Chief Ministers, using Video-Meet

Ø  United Nations General Assembly going VIRTUAL

Ø  May be ( ? ) even World Economic Forum ( WEF )

Ø  EU Ministers, regularly meeting ONLINE

Ø  In India , many companies conducting AGMs , online

Ø  Most “ Service Sector “ companies in India, letting employees to work from home

This trend is bound to accelerate over next few months

With minimum infrastructure and time-loss, we can, easily set up, not just 100 but even 1,000 E-Courts , through launch of a portal { technology already commonplace }

On the same portal , 1,000 judges ( sitting in their homes ) can conduct trials , occupying 1,000 VIRTUAL COURTS

Complainants / Plaintiffs / Lawyers / Witnesses etc., too can log-on from their homes, into their RESPECTIVE / ASSIGNED , COURT-ROOMS [ Perfect Social Distancing ]

Finding 1,000 retired judges within ONE MONTH, cannot be a problem . They will be happy to work from 9 am to 6 pm ( with 30 minutes lunch-break )

I urge Shri Ravishankar Prasadji, to consider my suggestion

With regards,

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  29 sept 2020

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Related Readings :

Justice delayed is Justice Denied ……………………[ 12 Dec 2018 ]

https://doj.gov.in/  [  Tele – Law / Reaching the Unreached ]

eCourts Mission Mode Project

 

About e-Committee

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