The Policy Purpose of a Multipolar Agenda for India, First Edition, 2023 and other updates

Greetings everyone.

As a new 2024 blooms, and most of us get back to work after holidays, I am glad to share some fascinating updates.

We are glad to release our first infographic report, on technical law & policy problems, beginning with the one on a Policy Purpose of a Multipolar Agenda for India.

This is Infographic Report IPLR-IG-001, in which we have addressed the concept and phenomenon of multipolarity in the context of India’s geopolitical and policy realities per se.

You can also purchase the report at the VLiGTA App.

Here is a sneak peek of the report.

Here is the table of contents of the report:

1 | Understanding Multipolarity

What is multipolarity, and how has this concept evolved for India in political, economic and social aspects.

2 | The Transformative Role of Multipolarity

How multipolarity as a policy phenomenon (and a geopolitical phenomenon changed the way we look at global issues and problems.

Global Dynamics and Politics

Diversifying Power & Competence Dynamics

• Old Multilateralism vs New Multilateralism
• Multi-Alignment as the New Normal
• Plurilateralism and ‘Minilateralism’
• The Rise of Specialised Non-State Actors
• The World is Post-Ideological

Crisis and Realism

The Language and Outlook of ‘Polycrisis’

• Principled Realism
• The Weaponization of Everything

Technology and Modernity

The Penetrable and Irreversible Role of Digital Technologies

• The Big Tech and the Red Tech

The report can also be accessed at https://www.indicpacific.com/post/the-policy-purpose-of-a-multipolar-agenda-for-india-first-edition-2023

2023 has been an Year of Aspirations

It has been a fascinating year for Indic Pacific Legal Research as we launched our digital publication initiative Visual Legal Analytica, and our research & tech initiative, VLiGTA? in 2022.

• In our collaboration with Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law , we have also imparted help and engaged with law, policy and tech stakeholders in our AIGA committees.
• We have had a series of key interventions from our founder, Abhivardhan ? in, CyFy 2022, The Raisina Dialogue 2023, the Lucknow AI Conclave 2023 and the Global Technology Summit 2023.
• We released a lot of relevant technical reports, on artificial intelligence (esp. Gen AI) and Web3, AI hype and even AI auditing (link: https://vligta.app/product-category/report/technical-report/).
• We released a glossary of technology law (and AI-related) terms this year (available at https://www.indicpacific.com/glossary).
• We also published and had submitted a draft of AIACT.IN - the Artificial Intelligence (Development & Regulation) Bill, 2023 (authored by Mr Abhivardhan) to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology .
• We conducted a collaborative webinar with the Indo-Pacific Circle in partnership with ISAIL on Global AI Governance (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTG0HNzMPe4).

We aim to do more, and engage to develop the Indian tech story with all stakeholders, together.

Artificial Intelligence Ethics and International Law - 2nd Edition: Practical Approaches to AI Governance ranks #45 in AI category on Amazon

It's been nearly 4 weeks since the release of "Artificial Intelligence Ethics and International Law - 2nd Edition: Practical Approaches to AI Governance" by?BPB.

I am glad that despite the curve of rank changes, my book is among the Top #50 books in the?#ArtificialIntelligence?category on Amazon.

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