The AI boom could generate up to 5 million metric tons of e-waste by 2030. Much of that hardware will likely end up in informal scrap yards across India and Africa restofworld.org/2026/global-ewaste-crisi...
Apologies here's the signing link:
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Important coverage by @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social.
The other thing that stands out: three out of the six women are organising against fossil fuels.
The award has underlined the importance of actions aligned to a key principle: primum non nocere. Do no harm.
Wow you created an entire Claude “skill sheet” of your “voice”? Why not use the free one that lives inside your brain
Easier to imagine the end of the world than a ‘free’ book.
What few Indians there are on this site, #Indiasky, this is really, really important, please submit your comments to the government letting them know you're against their plans to further strangle your online freedom of speech. Last date 29 April (I think? It says 14 here), info/email template here:
Title: The share of Indian adults who can use computers has grown very little over the last decade Sub-title: Share of adults who can use a computer (2014 vs 2025) Explanation: The share of adults who can use a computer in 2014 and 2025, for urban and rural India. Urban: 30% in 2014 and 36% in 2025. Rural: 9% in 2014 and 15% in 2025. Note: Respondents were asked whether they were able to use any device among desktop computers, laptops, tablets, palmtops, and notebooks. Source: NSS Round 71, Social Consumption on Education survey (2014) and Comprehensive Modular Survey - Telecom (CMS-T, 2025), National Statistics Office Attribution: Data For India | CC BY
🧵 While most Indian households now own a mobile phone, computer ownership in India has grown slowly. Over the last two decades, the share of households that own a computer has increased from just over 1% to just over 9%. In most developed countries, by contrast, computer ownership exceeds 75%.
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I'd been working on a project, and the report is finally out there.
There has been wide-ranging chatter on the use of cash transfers in India. We examined the motivations behind philanthropic support to Project DEEP, a nonprofit facilitating unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) in India. (1/4)
New Report: 'Trusting Agency, Shifting Perceptions: Donor Motivations for Supporting Unconditional Cash Transfers in India'
There is so much more to be done, but it was heartening to speak to people who are willing rethink and reframe how they give.
You can check out the report on the link below:
capi.org.in/publications...
#ubi #cashtransfers #philanthropy #welfare #development
What was refreshing for me were the reflections donors engaged in, and the questions they asked themselves by supporting an intervention like an unconditional cash transfer.
And mind you, these are donors that have diverse motivations and (ideology-wise) span the political spectrum. (3/4)
This study shows that the donors are motivated by three overlapping factors: the efficiency and dignity of a model that trusts recipients, the opportunity to produce India-specific evidence behind UCTs, and the potential to influence how social welfare is designed and delivered at scale. (2/4)
I'd been working on a project, and the report is finally out there.
There has been wide-ranging chatter on the use of cash transfers in India. We examined the motivations behind philanthropic support to Project DEEP, a nonprofit facilitating unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) in India. (1/4)
Disabled people are very online because they’re excluded from being able to participate in much of life outside.
Banger of a tweet by Leo. Topped Francis there imo.
Proving to be demonstrably effective in India.
Musk has had no issues complying with an incredibly high number of takedown orders from the government (and, in some cases, even private firms).
In India, X offers “free speech” within an infrastructure of mass censorship.
“These stocks might be enough for the initial application when the crops are being sowed. But beyond that basal requirement, farmers will require a second and third application as well, and for that, we may not have enough,” said an expert.
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Vaishnavi Rathore reports
In Delhi, a 14 kg cylinder is going for about INR 3,000-4,000, (about 214-285 per kg) in the black market. Impossibly high for most people.
The last worker exodus from the cities was during COVID. The state failed its most precarious back then, and it seems to be failing now.
It is such an indictment of the world we live in that just as the vaunted domestic checks and balances in the US have been shown to be basically fantasies, so are any international norm against and ability to stop a nuclear holocaust.
Tbh, NOT a maximalist as per the article but only working hours. And then, it’s usually silent (or call notifications from only saved phone numbers).
This has been my life for a while. Highly recommend.
Book cover of ‘Gods and Ends’ by Lindsay Pereira
Strangely fitting that I’m reading this on Easter Sunday afternoon.
As sector expert Noshir said, this Amendment effective turns the ‘R’ (Regulation) in the Act to a ‘C’ (Control).
capindia.in/implications...
(3/3)
Aakar Patel provides a brief history of the Act.
“Amendments are introduced and passed by bulldozing political opposition and without regard to any form of dissent. This is not the functioning of a state anchored in the rule of law, regard for accountability.”
(2/3)
The nonprofit sector in India does incredible care work for many that fall through the wide cracks of state welfare, despite an overbearing regulatory framework.
FCRA funding enables causes and projects that few domestic funders support. (1/3)
#nonprofits #india
India’s free trade agmts. undermine access to affordable medicines. The govt must resist big pharma’s narrative that stronger IP protection drives investment & innovation, & instead heed health advocacy groups that say healthcare costs for the poor will balloon.
www.theindiaforum.in/health/how-i...
AI was supposed to be a global democratizing force, but instead, it is concentrating power and wealth in the hands of a few American companies at unprecedented rates
1. Germany already said the war is illegal.
2. US now threatening "complete obliteration" of Iran's energy system and, maybe, of desalination plants – i.e., war crimes.
3. Reminder: The war is conducted from Ramstein, Germany: "the nerve center of America’s operations against Iran".
What gives?
