Independent Researcher in AI governance, farmed animal welfare and much of other stuff. Corporate lawyer by training and experience. Have also worked with a legal tech startup leading its product, strategy and partnerships vertical.
Shubham Dhamelia
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This may encourage corruption / bribery instances. For example, companies/individuals paying bribes to a particular political party in favour of getting government contracts or letting them off the hook from compliance violations.
This happened in India, where government had introduced electoral bonds. The information of donation would not be made public, and as a result donors of such bonds were observed making substantial amount of donations. Supreme Court of India stuck down this mechanism citing violation of right to information and likelihood of corruption instances.
The Court also forced a release of some documents which provided information about donations and donors. See this report. Very interestingly, most of the donations come around allotment of some very big government contracts, mentioned here.
Hi,
Very promising pitch / TOC. Thank you for sharing it.
I would like to seek your opinion on a couple of thoughts.
a) Have you found / done any study which discusses access to digital platforms such as mobile phones, laptops, computers (with parents or govt schools) with illiteracy among peoples of Hindi speaking states?
I believe delivery of your service (along with the development) will be a crucial element of the success of this intervention.
b) Partnering with existing education focused organizations like Labhya, Teach for India, Child Rights and You, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, etc. at the stage of development may make these interventions substantially more effective.
These organizations, grounded in reality of Indian education system, curriculum, and its limitations can help in developing more directly actionable insights. If you do not intend to scale your ground force for delivery and dissemination, then you can consider becoming their tech partner.
I apologize this suggestion if you have already approached them.
Thank you,