GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND SMART CITIES
The topic basically deals with the issues converging global governance, Sustainable Development and the emerging concept of smart cities in South Asia. It covers the structural, institutional, and normative challenges and issues of the current global order precisely South Asia. Likewise, the topic also touches upon the concept of sustainability extending extensively in the areas such as health, education, freedom, equality, climate change, clean energy and green economy providing a wealth of insights to its readers.
ARTICLES
Different Flavors of Human Rights: The Self-Contradiction Within
The current degradation of human rights also generates from the conviction that human rights are western agenda and forcibly loaded onto non-westerners.
Water and Sustainable Agriculture in Sri Lanka
Existing water policies should be coherent with the upcoming national agricultural strategy and completion and implementation such a strategy could lead us towards achieving sustainable agricultural targets.
Smart City Aesthetics and Everyday Geographies of South Asian Countries
We first require a comprehensive methodology to understand cities, since a sensible, safe and inclusive city is the need of the time. And if any fancy concept is stripping a resident's agency and decision making power through, forced choices, exploitation, and increasing inequalities, then we need to get rid of it.
Significance of Personality Cults in Governance: The Case of China under Xi Jinping and Russia under Vladimir Putin
Cults of personalities for centuries enabled the survival of innumerable dynasties and dynasts by constructing a perception where an individual is essential for the survival or prosperity of the state by inextricably affiliating themselves with the state. Putin and Xi are prime examples of this.
India at WHO and Upcoming G-20 Presidency: Smart Power Approach to Ambivalent Geopolitics
G-20 is especially important because it provides India, a developing populous country, with an opportunity to display its global, political, economic and intellectual leadership on the same platform with the world’s most powerful countries.
Governance of Non-Personal Data in India: Early Reflections from Digital Ethnography
10 August 2020, NIICE Commentary 5794 Dr. Preeti Raghunath Even as the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to put in place measures for human safety, one thing that has been pronounced during this time is the public health reliance on Data. From contact tracing apps to the building of databases, the pandemic has revealed the very current turn to Datafication that is beginning to occur in a big way, across countries. India is no exception. Over the last half a decade, we have seen numerous policy shifts that prove that this is a new reality that we
Can Human Rights Governance be Made More Global in a Post-Pandemic World?
An already instituted global governance system for human right facilitating discussions and policy advice sharing among representatives, experts and networks of the field for timely informed decision-making steps tangibly contribute to prevent further human suffering.
Global Governance in the Digital World: Policy Initiatives in Europe
The new communication technologies can definitely help the EU and other countries of the world in improving the democratic credentials of its institutions and legislative processes.