Monday, July 05, 2010
both are innocent, people who do injustice, corruption and all bad things in society and people who suffer and tolerate all this, what they do is just follow culture. what really needs to be changed is culture around. and to change culture we don't have kind of as such movements now . In Maharashtra (being maharastrian so the example) there is rich tradition of movements but now there is no one to look upon in state. at national level its long gap since mahtama.( i personally feel Rajiv Gandhi one who initiated movement for technology advancement and did efforts for the days we are in now)
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
innovation...the missed train ?
Adoption & usage of new technologies are coupled with social and cultural aspects. What is the Indian market’s potential to replicate mobile phones story for emerging new technologies we are expecting tomorrow. Well not tomorrow, for that matter in past also how many Indian universities, research and educational institute have given thought to modify PC technology to make its usage more effectively in rural part of India?
Technology is to be driven by needs within to bring the change to improve life equally as passion and vision to bring change drives technology. Is originality in vision to improve Indian life’s standard is what something we missing and blindly adopting technology development for someone else’s need? action to create supportive environment to cultivate innovative changes in day to day life is what missing from leadership at all level today , for example traffic regulation department I really doubt how much time and efforts senior officers and leaders put to improve bad traffic situations in many of cities today ? pulling ppl in to jobs and allow them to function discretely for whatever reasons without adding any value in to service they provide till they retire is what something leadership much bother today it seems.
I wonder if today’s leadership, in positive terms creates a sort of lobbies to get support from all levels in government and society to improve common man’s life, today we see lobbies are created to protect unlawful, antisocial and personal interests using governments money and power, but that’s not the point I am trying to make here. What I am trying to understand here is, what is required to be done at local level to change overall psyche to acquire leadership to lead and establish original thought process to improve billions of life in their own local context and at the same time connect them globally and collectively?
One of use case is I have worked with well-known multinational companies in my carrier, while performing my duties I have undergone many training on different management and cultural awareness programs and subjects designed from global team perspectives .Also being a technical person always in to understanding of problems statements for different business /financial and social model to provide solutions for those.
Training programs are good in rooms, they are really good. You come out of these rooms you are in real world where the cultural and social dynamics you deal with is local and little different, but to conference calls you go in with global team awareness.
Same with when you deal with technical problems to provide solutions .You have well defined structural and infrastructural patterns ready to learn, use and to support underlying structural/ infrastructural design. But you have to put efforts to understand business process/workflow and transform those in bits and bytes and in to if –then-else’s. Somehow I don’t feel this allows you to work innovatively in natural way. You study functional aspect from defined requirements perspective and that’s one way to look at problem statement. Keeping rest of influential parameters in isolation can restrict one to provide more valuable innovative solution…. For example social networking could be one of influential parameters to be considered to provide more valuable solutions for defined problem. Understanding of social dynamics, unique to problem could be equally important; at the same time you need to see how you can connect those in global context to model problem more effectively.
I think to work innovatively to provide required solutions, if one is enough flexible and can extend approach in predictive manner to understand unidentified, implicitly inherited attributes of problems by painting its complexity on little broad canvas.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Experiment
Posted by Mahesh
It is not that i , myself am fully in agreement with
such system. That is why i call it experiemnt. It may
fail miserably. Or it may succeed. The two points you
talked about are true too. But here are my reasons:
1) Even if govt machinery can have better
intelligence, question is "do we have access to it?".
As people/citizen of this country, do we have access
to intelligence of govt? We wont..so for people we
should have people centeric intelligence.
2) Terrorist may have what ever problems, we (as
people of this country) can't solve it. We have to
worry about what is happenign to us. And what is
happening is, we are dying.
Also, i agree that there'r better options.
Perticularly,
1 (joining politics) and 3 (forming parallel
military).
We need to think more on the system. Family is
responsibility. I think i can take any risk, exactly
because i have family. If i would have been alone, i
would have have tried to risk myself for someone else.
Now, what inspires me is safety of my family.
It is not that i , myself am fully in agreement with
such system. That is why i call it experiemnt. It may
fail miserably. Or it may succeed. The two points you
talked about are true too. But here are my reasons:
1) Even if govt machinery can have better
intelligence, question is "do we have access to it?".
As people/citizen of this country, do we have access
to intelligence of govt? We wont..so for people we
should have people centeric intelligence.
2) Terrorist may have what ever problems, we (as
people of this country) can't solve it. We have to
worry about what is happenign to us. And what is
happening is, we are dying.
Also, i agree that there'r better options.
Perticularly,
1 (joining politics) and 3 (forming parallel
military).
We need to think more on the system. Family is
responsibility. I think i can take any risk, exactly
because i have family. If i would have been alone, i
would have have tried to risk myself for someone else.
Now, what inspires me is safety of my family.
My Thoughts
Posted by Ravi
On the onset, let me make it clear that I admire and respect anybody’s strive to come up with a solution. Any success to the system like this means my child will live in better and safer world, and for that reason alone, I can commit time, energy, and money for a cause like this. I also admit that being skeptical is very easy; on the other hand, we always need the optimistic leaders who have got passion and enough support to achieve highly difficult tasks like this.
Having said that, I must say, very sincerely, that I am not convinced on the feasibility of the idea and that the passionate people should spend time in following it. Not that it really matters if one person is not convinced; but following are my reasons, if you care:
1. You would agree that the intelligent system like the one you envision can better be achieved by the organizations like intelligent agencies, police, government. Because, obviously enough, they have right infrastructure, right network, right authorities. You may argue that these organizations are biased. Yeah, they may be; but that’s our fate. If you want to do something, change them to become unbiased, change them to become effective, change them be become better. Hence I like the other option you mentioned in your first mail of joining the politics.
2. I sincerely believe and you would agree that trying to stop the terrorists’ activities without trying to understand the reason behind those is like attacking the symptom and not the root cause. I believe the terrorism is a symptom of some root cause that probably we don’t understand well. For example, a certain community, as per their scripture, believe that they should expand their species all over the world by conquering the land. Now, clearly this belief is not in harmony with nature. This is one out of probably hundred causes that we don’t know of. As another example: there was a program on TV called “India Times Enclave”. Musharraf was answering the questions related the Kashmir . The questions were being asked by Indian high profile businessmen, journalists, actors, politicians, sportsmen. What I observed in Musharraf’s answers that he and his people truly believe that a certain part of Kashmir belongs to them. I am not pro-Mussharraf or anti-Indian, but the point is that they believe that the Kashmir is theirs as mush as we believe that Kashmir is ours. If we both hold our premises and try to solve the problem, I don’t see how the problem can be solved and how terrorism can be prevented. One easy way to solve the Kashmir issue is to do an all-out war. Gone the days of Roman emperors, in the modern times of ours, nobody wins in a war, everybody looses. A better way to solve the Kashmir issue is to increase the financial, educational, cultural ties. Make those mostly uneducated fanatics understand that there is more value in such ties than fighting over the land. This will take time; but I believe it will work, and I think that’s the stand India is taking, and I think the situation is improving every passing year.
The above point # 2 kind of got a bit deviated (though very important and true), and I understand that terrorism is a problem we would want to try to counter as soon as possible otherwise we risk the lives of our nears and dears. So from that point of view, and because you believe the idea will work, you can count me in. I will be “disagree but committed”. Or better even, come up with other more convincing ideas. By the way, the best thing about your original idea is that it appears relatively easy to realize. Some other obvious ideas come to my mind, but those all are difficult to achieve and are very demanding and long term in nature, and I know I can’t work on those ideas, I am sorry! That’s another reason, I would follow your idea. The ideas I am talking about are (and these are very obvious, by the way):
1. Join politics, influence the systems like police, government to do right things. (This is very long term, needs passion, skills, and a lot. This will yield best results).
2. Create a network, spot some Muslims that we think have modern and right conscience and who share our thoughts. Use them to influence other uneducated and fanatic Pakistanis to understand that terrorism is wrong.
3. Hope (or try) that “Chatrapati” (he could be among us) emerges back and leads us to fight the terrorism using “ganimi kava”. (This is exciting, 3-4 years back I would have thought of following such leader, not any more. I have family - worried of them, and don’t think have enough guts).
On the onset, let me make it clear that I admire and respect anybody’s strive to come up with a solution. Any success to the system like this means my child will live in better and safer world, and for that reason alone, I can commit time, energy, and money for a cause like this. I also admit that being skeptical is very easy; on the other hand, we always need the optimistic leaders who have got passion and enough support to achieve highly difficult tasks like this.
Having said that, I must say, very sincerely, that I am not convinced on the feasibility of the idea and that the passionate people should spend time in following it. Not that it really matters if one person is not convinced; but following are my reasons, if you care:
1. You would agree that the intelligent system like the one you envision can better be achieved by the organizations like intelligent agencies, police, government. Because, obviously enough, they have right infrastructure, right network, right authorities. You may argue that these organizations are biased. Yeah, they may be; but that’s our fate. If you want to do something, change them to become unbiased, change them to become effective, change them be become better. Hence I like the other option you mentioned in your first mail of joining the politics.
2. I sincerely believe and you would agree that trying to stop the terrorists’ activities without trying to understand the reason behind those is like attacking the symptom and not the root cause. I believe the terrorism is a symptom of some root cause that probably we don’t understand well. For example, a certain community, as per their scripture, believe that they should expand their species all over the world by conquering the land. Now, clearly this belief is not in harmony with nature. This is one out of probably hundred causes that we don’t know of. As another example: there was a program on TV called “India Times Enclave”. Musharraf was answering the questions related the Kashmir . The questions were being asked by Indian high profile businessmen, journalists, actors, politicians, sportsmen. What I observed in Musharraf’s answers that he and his people truly believe that a certain part of Kashmir belongs to them. I am not pro-Mussharraf or anti-Indian, but the point is that they believe that the Kashmir is theirs as mush as we believe that Kashmir is ours. If we both hold our premises and try to solve the problem, I don’t see how the problem can be solved and how terrorism can be prevented. One easy way to solve the Kashmir issue is to do an all-out war. Gone the days of Roman emperors, in the modern times of ours, nobody wins in a war, everybody looses. A better way to solve the Kashmir issue is to increase the financial, educational, cultural ties. Make those mostly uneducated fanatics understand that there is more value in such ties than fighting over the land. This will take time; but I believe it will work, and I think that’s the stand India is taking, and I think the situation is improving every passing year.
The above point # 2 kind of got a bit deviated (though very important and true), and I understand that terrorism is a problem we would want to try to counter as soon as possible otherwise we risk the lives of our nears and dears. So from that point of view, and because you believe the idea will work, you can count me in. I will be “disagree but committed”. Or better even, come up with other more convincing ideas. By the way, the best thing about your original idea is that it appears relatively easy to realize. Some other obvious ideas come to my mind, but those all are difficult to achieve and are very demanding and long term in nature, and I know I can’t work on those ideas, I am sorry! That’s another reason, I would follow your idea. The ideas I am talking about are (and these are very obvious, by the way):
1. Join politics, influence the systems like police, government to do right things. (This is very long term, needs passion, skills, and a lot. This will yield best results).
2. Create a network, spot some Muslims that we think have modern and right conscience and who share our thoughts. Use them to influence other uneducated and fanatic Pakistanis to understand that terrorism is wrong.
3. Hope (or try) that “Chatrapati” (he could be among us) emerges back and leads us to fight the terrorism using “ganimi kava”. (This is exciting, 3-4 years back I would have thought of following such leader, not any more. I have family - worried of them, and don’t think have enough guts).
How to use the system
Posted by Mahesh
See the system will never tell where the attack is going to happen.
(or is it? If system is sufficiently complex and there really is some
hidden patter to catch? Magic :) ). Anyway, the use of system is for
analysis of attacks and making the information available at one place.
There are social engineering methods to find out who is who. I read
some analysis on 9/11 hijackers. They created simple map with
connectivity among people. The one who has most connections is master
mind ! If all the data is at one place and you have graphic tools
available to plot them in various ways. You will see, who is connected
to who and how !!!
See the system will never tell where the attack is going to happen.
(or is it? If system is sufficiently complex and there really is some
hidden patter to catch? Magic :) ). Anyway, the use of system is for
analysis of attacks and making the information available at one place.
There are social engineering methods to find out who is who. I read
some analysis on 9/11 hijackers. They created simple map with
connectivity among people. The one who has most connections is master
mind ! If all the data is at one place and you have graphic tools
available to plot them in various ways. You will see, who is connected
to who and how !!!
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