Giants Leap Towards Privacy
People’s growing awareness and sensitivity towards privacy has led to several significant developments in recent times, among them being the decision by Google and Apple to allow users to control their data…
Getting a Grip on That Data
We are not sure when it started to change. In the past, governments were the main collectors of data about lands, people and resources. Today, the commercial sector collects…
Clear and Present Economic Danger
Even as the global NewSpace markets was flourishing, Indian Space-tech startups were striving for survival, sometimes by shifting base to other countries. So, what’s been…
Redrawing the Growth Map
India’s decision to liberalize geospatial data rules is historic, and will go a long way in transforming the country’s economy and ensuring self-reliance…
Making People Vote and How!
How a women-led advocacy group used the power of maps to encourage people to vote by making the US Presidential elections personal, and by telling focused, data-driven stories about policies that affect a variety of communities historically excluded from positions of power…
Satellite Imagery is Taking Journalism to New Orbits
Be it for fact-finding or gauging the impact of significant developments, reporting on climate events or conflict zones, because of the unbiased and continuous insights provided by satellite imagery, it is being extensively used in newsrooms today…
The Big Policy Enabler
While humankind is no stranger to crisis, there is something different about the COVID-19 pandemic — in a very short time span, the outbreak has led to unprecedented disruption on social, economic and health fronts…
Citizen Science and Geospatial Systems
The advent of citizen science opens up new possibilities in geospatial tools and applications…
What India Needs to Do to Match China’s Military EO Capabilities
For India to match China’s Earth Observation capacity in defense, it requires comprehensive efforts around research, development and innovation…
What’s Ailing Indian Space-tech Startups
Even as the global NewSpace markets was flourishing, Indian Space-tech startups were striving for survival, sometimes by shifting base to other countries. So, what’s been…