{"id":830667,"date":"2024-07-08T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T05:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=830667"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T05:03:35","slug":"india-faces-techno-colonialism-with-its-data-ola-founder-bhavish-aggarwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/08\/india-faces-techno-colonialism-with-its-data-ola-founder-bhavish-aggarwal\/","title":{"rendered":"India faces \u2018techno-colonialism\u2019 with its data: Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal coined the term &#8220;techno-colonialism&#8221; in an interview with ANI, to describe a modern phenomenon where India&#8217;s data is exported to global data centers, processed, and then repurposed and sold back to India.<\/p>\n<p>Why does Bhavish Aggarwal believe India is under &#8220;techno-colonialism&#8221;?<br \/>\nAggarwal likened this practice to the historical exploitation of Indian resources by the British East India Company, saying that while India produces a 20% of the world&#8217;s data, with the benefits of this data largely siphoned off by foreign tech giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal coined the term &#8220;techno-colonialism&#8221; in an interview with ANI, to describe a modern phenomenon where India&#8217;s data is exported to global data centers, processed, and then repurposed and sold back to India. Why does Bhavish Aggarwal believe India is under &#8220;techno-colonialism&#8221;? Aggarwal likened this practice to the historical exploitation of Indian resources by the British East India Company, saying that while India produces a 20% of the world&#8217;s data, with the benefits of this data largely siphoned off by foreign tech giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}