Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Sunday, 22 January 2023

Election Commission : - time to reach a consensus

 


Context :

EC to host international meet on use of tech, election integrity    /  IE  / 22  Jan  2023

Extract :


The Election Commission of India (ECI) will host a two-day international conference for election management officials from 17 countries from Monday with the focus on “use of technology and elections integrity”, it said in a statement on Sunday.


The conference would be the second one the ECI is hosting under the US-led Summit for Democracy platform, in which the ECI has been selected to lead the cohort on elections integrity.


The first conference was in October where 50 representatives from 11 countries participated.

 

The conference comes at a time the ECI has proposed the use of remote voting machines to enable domestic migrants to vote – a suggestion that most political parties opposed at a meeting held recently.

 

“Around 43 participants from 17 countries/EMBs [election management bodies] including Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Chile, Croatia, Dominica, Fiji, Georgia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Mauritius, Nepal, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines and Suriname…are expected to join. The representatives from a number of foreign missions located at New Delhi are also expected to attend the conference,” the ECI said.

 

The two-day conference would be inaugurated by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar.

 

Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey would chair the concluding session and Election Commissioner Arun Goel would chair the first technical session, the ECI said.

 

Two international organisations, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and International IDEA, would also be participating in the conference.

 

Dear Election Commissioners,

No doubt, you must be feeling disappointed by the opposition of many political parties to your proposal for Remote Voting Machine. But perseverance prevails in the end. On every available forum, you must keep talking about the huge benefits of REMOTE VOTING

I urge you to use the forthcoming conference to argue convincingly about the use of technology of Mobile-based voting ( the ultimate remote ? ), as repeatedly advocated in my following e-mails – and obtain a consensus of all the participants to adopt a suitable resolution

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  23 Jan 2023

 

 VotesApp ……………………………………….. [ 18 Dec 2012 ]

 

 

2022 ( 2 )

#  Saturation Point ? ……………………………………………………[ 11 Dec 2022 ]

 

#  Thank You, Shri Sushil Chandraji…………………………… [ 10 Jan 2022 ]

 

2021 ( 4 )

     #    Controlling Crowds at Election Rallies ?............[ 28 Dec 2021 ]

 

      #     Birth of a baby named VotesApp ? …………………………..[ 10 Oct 2021 ]

 

      #     Booth App : Is that V 1.0 of VotesApp ?..................[ 09 Feb 2021 ]

 

      #     Lost Votes : Congrats to Best Tech Minds………………….[ 29 Jan 2021 ]

      ================================================   

2020  (  7  )

     #   Vote from “ Workplace” ? How about from “ Any place “ ?...[ 22 Dec 2020 ]

 

     #   How about “ Sandbox for Mobile Voting “ ?     ………………..[27 Nov 2020]

     ( for controlled trial in one constituency  )

 

#   First Step to VotesApp ?                                                   [24 Jan 2020 ]

     ( Phase wise implementation schedule )

 

      #   From “ Lost Votes “ to “ Remote Votes “ ?                         [ 12 Feb 2020 ]

 

      #   Slow and Steady ? Way Democracy Works                       [ 12 Mar 2020 ]

 

#   Analysis Needed : Paralysis Avoided…………………                 [13 Sept 2020 ]

      ( – my earlier E Mail to Prof Rajat Moona )

 

      #  408 Km vertical distance OK ? …………………………                 [ 01 Nov 2020 ]

          ( see  Ballotted  [  info@ballotted.com ] )

 

=================================================

2019  ( 3 )

      #  100 % verification of VVPAT ? No problem !                 [ 02 Apr 2019 ]

 

      #  VVPAT ? How about EVBAT ?                                       [ 28 Mar 2019 ]

   ( leveraging Blockchain Technology )

 

#  Dark Side of Democracy                                              [ 08 Jan 2019 ]

 

=================================================

 2018  (  5  )

#  Americans call it “ Voatz “                                [ 13 Aug 2018 ]

   ( Blockchain app https://voatz.com/ )

 

#  Where is the need ?                                         [ 05 Apr 2018 ]

 

#  Block Chain for Voting ?                                   [ 11 Mar 2018 ]

 

#  Thank You, Shri Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay          [ 19 Feb 2018 ]

 

#  Simultaneous Polling                                         [ 22 Jan 2018 ]

   https://followmyvote.com/ 

 

===============================================

  2017  (  3  )

Poll Reforms : Time for a Consensus                  [ 21 Aug 2017 ]

 

#  A Blue Print for VotesApp ?                               [ 25  Apr  2017 ]

    - https://www.smartmatic.com/

 

#  Electoral Reforms Capsule : A Bitter Pill ?           [ 05  Feb  2017 ]

 

===============================================

 2016  ( 7 )

#  Reforming Elections and Lok Sabha                    [ 20 Dec 2016 ]

 

#   One Nation, One Vote ?                                   [ 29 Nov 2016 ]

 

#   Filtering Candidate Information                         [18  Sept  2016 ]

 

#   One Poll, One Time                                          [ 06 Sept  2016 ]

 

#   ROMP :  A Panacea ?                                        [ 06  Aug  2016 ]

 

#   The Greatest Reform ?                                      [ 12  June  2016 ]

 

#   One day polling is possible                                 [31  Mar  2016 ]

 

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2015  (  2  )

#  How to save Rs  5,511 crore ?                             [12  Dec  2015 ]

 

#  Honey, I shrunk the EVM  !                                 [21  Oct  2015 ]

 

=================================================

2014  (  3   )

  All seasons are election seasons                          [ 22 May 2014 ]

 

#  A Software Powerhouse ?                                     [ 24  Apr  2014 ]

   - Eliminate a Million Booths ?

 

 

      #  Sun never sets                                                    [ 01  Apr 2014 ]

 ==============================================

CC :

Mr Rajiv Kumar ( Election Commissioner  /  ecrk@eci.gov.in )

 

Mr Anup Chandra Pandey ( Election Commissioner / ecacp@eci.gov.in )

 

Mr. Umesh Sinha ( decus@eci.gov.in )

 

Mr. Sudeep Jain ( decsj@eci.gov.in )

 

Mr. Chandra Bhushan Kumar ( deccbk@eci.gov.in )

 

Mr. Dharmendra Sharma (dg.iiidem@eci.gov.in )

 

Mr. Nitesh Kumar Vyas (decnv@eci.gov.in )

 

Mr. T. Sreekanth (dects.eci@eci.gov.in )

 

 

 

Friday, 20 January 2023

Rajeev Chandrasekharji : How about a Big Bang ?

 


Context :

Will the imbalance between digital content and revenue from it end ? 



Extract :

“We want to create a trillion dollar digital economy. Some laws are necessary for this. We have brought the Digital Data Protection Bill. After its law is made, citizens will get the right to protect their data.

Another important effort is that the existing Information Technology Act will be transformed into a new and relevant Digital India Act in the coming months. On the basis of these two efforts, the digital economy and digital ecosystem will get direction.

This is what Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in the closing session of the conference on ‘Future of Digital Media’ on Friday.


Union Minister Chandrashekhar said that the power of advertisements has increased in digital media.

Advertising revenue and monetization have created an imbalance in the entire system.

Small groups and millions of people creating digital content are being hurt by this.

He said that who will be responsible for crores of Internet users, this is also a big question.

Things like chat GPT and artificial intelligence will change digital media in many ways.

Today 800 million people in India are connected to the Internet. It is the largest Internet gathering in the world. It is possible that by 2025-26, 100 crore people in the country will be connected to the internet.

Now there is a challenge to the dominance of big conglomerates in the Internet market.

There are also concerns about security. Who will be responsible for the crores of internet users ?

Citing the example of Australia, Fletcher negotiated commercial deals with news media publishers Google and Facebook for digital media rights.

He said that after all the struggle, news media publishers in Australia today do almost 20 times more business from Google and 13 times more from Meta than before.

 

MY  TAKE :

 

Dear Shri Chandrasekharji,

 

It is indeed very heartening to hear you talk about :

Ø  Citizens will get the right to protect their data

Ø  Millions of people creating digital content are being hurt by this

Ø  Who will be responsible for crores of Internet users ?

What the Australian Government has managed to extract from Google ( 20 times )  and Meta ( 13 times ), benefits only 2 national and 10 state/territory daily newspapers, 35 regional dailies and 470 other regional and suburban newspapers .

On behalf of our 800 million Social Media Users, I urge you to negotiate with the BIG TECH, and get the BIG TECH to “ compensate “ these users for “ Selling “ their private / personal data and minting Billions of dollars


For your “ Negotiating Strategy “, you may want to consider my following earlier emails :


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

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

Ø  Privacy for Sale  ………………………………………………………………………….[ 26 Aug 2017]

I  If DEPA = Foundation , then SARAL = Superstructure ……………….[ 08 May 2022 ]

 

Dear Shri Chandrasekharji,


To begin with, the monthly compensation that you negotiate could be a certain percentage of the “ India Revenue “ of the BIG TECH, payable to the Indian Government, who , in turn will come out with a formula to distribute this amount amongst the users

Please convince Smt Sitharamanji to make a BIG BANG announcement ( in her Budget Speech on 01 Feb ), of a “ USER DATA  COMPENSATION  TAX “ ( payable by BIG TECH )

 

You are unlikely to come up with anything bigger for winning all the 9 forthcoming State Elections !

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 21 Jan 2023

 

 

Related Readings :

Ø  Google India Earns INR 24,926.5 Cr As Ad Revenue; Profits Up By 53.34% In FY22

Ø  Meta India clocks gross ad revenues of Rs 16,189 crore in FY 2021-22

 

 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

ChatGPT : - an attempt to malign ?

 


 

Last evening, Anchor / News-Presenter of one of the Indian TV Channel ( I will not name it ), was “ reporting “ ( although , in a manner of language which made the new appear to be his own views ), that ChatGPT is dishing out disparaging / demeaning “ Jokes “ when given prompts such as :

“ Write a joke about Lord Rama “

Anchor said ( over and over for 20 times ) that :

Ø  This was very offensive to the Hindu community of India

Ø  May be, this might result in Govt being forced to “ ban “ ChatGPT

Anchor even managed to get some supportive answers from a very well-known Cyber Expert

All of this made me pose the following questions to ChatGPT – and get some reassuring answers :

 

Do you write jokes about any person - real or legend ?

 

As a language model, I can generate a wide variety of content, including jokes about real or legendary people.

However, I am programmed to avoid generating content that could be considered offensive or disrespectful.

My primary goal is to assist users in finding useful information and generating coherent and grammatically correct text.

Would your policy prevent you from writing a joke about Lord Rama ?

 

Lord Rama is a revered figure in Hinduism, and it would be disrespectful to generate jokes about him.

As a language model, I am programmed to avoid generating content that could be considered offensive or disrespectful.

My primary goal is to assist users in finding useful information and generating coherent and grammatically correct text.

I will make sure that I will not generate any content that may hurt someone's feelings or beliefs.

  

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com  / 18 Jan 2023

 

Context :

DNA Exclusive: Chat GPT - big conspiracy to defame Hinduism exposed

Zee Media Bureau Jan 18, 2023, 01:11 AM IST,

 

Alarmed by AI chatbots, universities start revamping how they teach         


Extract :

While grading essays for his world religions course last month, Antony Aumann, a professor of philosophy at Northern Michigan University, read what he said was easily “the best paper in the class.” It explored the morality of burqa bans with clean paragraphs, fitting examples and rigorous arguments.

A red flag instantly went up.

Aumann confronted his student over whether he had written the essay himself. The student confessed to using ChatGPT, a chatbot that delivers information, explains concepts and generates ideas in simple sentences — and, in this case, had written the paper.

Alarmed by his discovery, Aumann decided to transform essay writing for his courses this semester. He plans to require students to write first drafts in the classroom, using browsers that monitor and restrict computer activity. In later drafts, students have to explain each revision. Aumann, who may forgo essays in subsequent semesters, also plans to weave ChatGPT into lessons by asking students to evaluate the chatbot’s responses.

“What’s happening in class is no longer going to be, ‘Here are some questions — let’s talk about it between us human beings,’” he said, but instead “it’s like, ‘What also does this alien robot think?’”

Across the country, university professors like Aumann, department chairs and administrators are starting to overhaul classrooms in response to ChatGPT, prompting a potentially huge shift in teaching and learning. Some professors are redesigning their courses entirely, making changes that include more oral exams, group work and handwritten assessments in lieu of typed ones.

The moves are part of a real-time grappling with a new technological wave known as generative artificial intelligence. ChatGPT, which was released in November by the artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, is at the forefront of the shift. The chatbot generates eerily articulate and nuanced text in response to short prompts, with people using it to write love letters, poetry, fan fiction — and their schoolwork.

That has upended some middle and high schools, with teachers and administrators trying to discern whether students are using the chatbot to do their schoolwork. Some public school systems, including in New York City and Seattle, have since banned the tool on school Wi-Fi networks and devices to prevent cheating, although students can easily find workarounds to access ChatGPT.

In higher education, colleges and universities have been reluctant to ban the AI tool because administrators doubt the move would be effective and they don’t want to infringe on academic freedom. That means the way people teach is changing instead.

“We try to institute general policies that certainly back up the faculty member’s authority to run a class,” instead of targeting specific methods of cheating, said Joe Glover, provost of the University of Florida. “This isn’t going to be the last innovation we have to deal with.”

Monday, 16 January 2023

ChatGPT : saga continues

 


I asked ChatGPT :


can you make a bulleted list of all the schemes listed here ?

> https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/schemes

 

ChatGPT answered :


I'm sorry, I can't access the link you've provided as it is not a valid URL.

However, I can tell you that India has many schemes launched by the Government,

These schemes are usually aimed at providing various benefits to different sections of society such as financial assistance, education, health care, housing, pension schemes, etc.

 Some of the popular schemes launched by the Indian Government are:

 

-Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY)

-Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)

 -Atal Pension Yojana (APY)

-Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)

-Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY)

 

-Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY)

 -Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)

-Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)

-Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission)

-Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana

 

-Digital India

-Make in India

-Startup India

-Stand Up India

-Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)

 

-National Skill Development Mission (NSDM)

-National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS)

-National Health Mission (NHM)

 -Ayushman Bharat

 - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY)

 

 -Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)

 -Jan Aushadhi Yojana (PMBJP)

 -National Pension System (NPS)

 -Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS)

 -Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS)

 

 -Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS)

 -Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS)

 -National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)

 -Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY)

 -Atal Pension Yojana

 

 -Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana

 -Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana

 -Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

 -Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana

 -Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana

 

-Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

-Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PM-KISAN)

 -Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana

-Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP)

 -Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY)

 

 -Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)

 -Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)

 -Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY)

 -Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY)

 -Swavalamban Yojana

 

 -Atal Pension Yojana (APY)

 -Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima

 


ChatGPT apparently listed, what “ It ( ? ) “ considered to be the “ popular “ 47 schemes

Altogether , there are more than 200 schemes ( I have not finished counting ! )

 

Readers :


If you want to know details of any of the above mentioned schemes, no need to

look up :

> https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/schemes 

 

Just ask ChatGPT , as follows :

“ Can you describe the details of > Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima

 

ChatGPT gave following reply :


“Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) is a government-backed life insurance scheme in India. The scheme is aimed at providing a life insurance cover to all savings bank account holders in the age group of 18 to 50 years. The scheme is implemented through public sector banks, private sector banks, regional rural banks and foreign banks.

Eligibility:

 -Any individual in the age group of 18 to 50 years having a savings bank account is eligible to join the scheme. -The scheme will be automatically renewed every year and the premium will be auto-debited from the subscriber's bank account.

Benefits:

 -The scheme provides a life insurance cover of Rs. 2 lakhs to the subscriber at a very nominal annual premium of Rs. 330 (including service tax) per annum. -The scheme is available to all savings bank account holders who give their consent to join / enable auto-debit, as per the modalities adopted by the bank. -The premium for the scheme will be auto-debited by the bank from the subscriber's account. -In case of death of the subscriber, the claim amount of Rs. 2 lakh will be paid to the nominee.

It is important to note that this scheme is for life insurance and not pension scheme, it provides a lump sum amount in case of death of the subscriber. Also, it's worth mentioning that the knowledge cut off date is 2021, and the details of the scheme can change over time.

 

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 17 Jan 2023