IIC-ICSI Talk on "The Omnipresent Nature of Data and How it Influences Us" | 5 August at IIC New Delhi, India

INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE IIC Diamond Jubilee Digital Governance Lecture   The Omnipresent Nature of Data and How it Influences Us Speaker: Dr. Neeta Verma, former  Director General, National Informatics Centre  Chair: Shri Tallen Kumar, Member Finance, Space Commission and formerly CEO, the Government eMarket Place. On Friday, 5 August 2022  at 6:30 pm In SEMINAR Rooms II & III, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC, New Delhi, India Tea will be served at 6.00 pm (Outside Seminar Hall)                                                                                                                         About the talk :  Omnipresent Nature of Data & How it Influences Us? Over 5 billion people in the world are using the Internet for little less than 7 hours a day on an average . People connect to the internet for a wide variety of purposes, be it access to information, communication, entertainment, shopping , healthcare, education,skilling, jobs, travel, tourism, finance , banking and also working from home as well as looking for jobs. These interactions generate huge amounts of data per minute. Recommendations, suggestions, pricing,  special offerings, all use data in a big way. Availability of cloud computing, coupled with data science and AI making it possible to analyse this data in real time and generate insights. These insights are increasingly used by digital platforms to influence our lives in many ways. It helps in enhancing user experience, customer satisfaction , offering personalised services to users. Data and its influence is becoming so pervasive and often we do not even realise how it's changing our thought process, influencing our opinion and so on. How do we conduct ourselves online to keep ourselves safe and free from biases?

(Collaboration: Information and Communication Society of India (ICSI), New Delhi)