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Newspaper columns written and signed by Dr. Ajay Data, Managing Director — on artificial intelligence, 5G, Digital India and the work of making the internet legible in Indian scripts. Reproduced here as published clippings.
Columns
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Balancing Productivity & Well-being
A column on India’s work-hours debate, written while Narayana Murthy’s seventy-hour week, Rishad Premji’s counterpoint and Bhavish Aggarwal’s endorsement were being argued in public. It sets out why work–life balance is a personal rather than an organisational measure, and why the argument looks different in an economy where much of the population earns under ₹25,000 a month.
First India, City First — Your Page, Jaipur — 25 November 2024
The writer is Co-Chair FICCI ICT and MD — Data Group
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A journey through the last four years
The Rapid Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
A history of large language models written for a general newspaper readership — GPT-2 in 2019, GPT-3 in 2020, GPT-4 in 2022, and Llama 3.1’s 405 billion parameters — and an argument that the more consequential shift is machines acquiring situational awareness rather than raw capability.
First India, City First — Your Page, Jaipur — 30 August 2024
Chair — FICCI India (Multilingual Internet and UA) & MD, Data Group of Industries
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Centre clears 5G spectrum auction for 10x faster services
Written the week the Union Cabinet cleared the 5G spectrum auction, this explains what the sale actually covered across the low, mid and high bands, and sets out the difference between 4G and 5G in the terms that matter to a user: latency measured in milliseconds rather than tens of them, and the ability to connect very large numbers of devices in a small area.
First India, Jaipur — 8 July 2022
The writer is Co-Chair FICCI ICT and MD — Data Group
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India @75: Digital India
Written for the seventy-fifth anniversary of independence, this argues that India’s digital transformation is a success story worth stating plainly — public digital infrastructure, vernacular language on the internet, and the case for email addresses and domain names that work in Indian scripts, which is the work the author has spent two decades on.
Publication to be confirmed
The writer is Co-Chair FICCI ICT and MD — Data Group
Interviewed
In his own words, to someone else’s questions.
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Data Ingenious Global Limited marks 25 years of innovation and excellence
Tech Titans!
An interview marking twenty-five years of Data Ingenious Global Limited, covering the company’s founding in 1999, the difficulty of building a technology business in Jaipur when the sector barely existed there, and its move into private, on-premise AI.
First India, City First — Bharat@2047, Jaipur — 10 May 2024
Interviewed by Indu Rathore, First India News
Clippings are cropped to the article. Copyright in each piece rests with its author and publisher — First India; they are shown here as a record of published work, summarised rather than reproduced.