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Charles Assisi

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Mumbai
As seen in: Founding Fuel, Hindustan Times, MSN India, Hindustan Times Mumbai, Flipboard, HT Syndication, ApDirect
Covers:  Business, Technology, Public Policy
Doesn't Cover: Local news, Entertainment
Technology. Power. Institutions. People. Observing how they shape each other Co-founder, Founding Fuel Columnist, Hindustan Times Co-author, The Aadhaar Effect

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Charles Assisi’s Biography

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Charles Assisi is co-founder at Founding Fuel, a new-age media and learning platform and co-author of "The Aadhaar Effect: Why The World’s Largest Identity Project Matters". It was published by OUP

He is a columnist as well for Hindustan Times" & is published by other leading newspapers including peer reviewed journals such as Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

He is often seen at public forums, sometimes as a moderator and at others as a speaker on themes as diverse as technology and…

Charles Assisi’s Journalist Portfolio

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Behind the data breach at BigBasket

Behind the data breach at BigBasket

Interesting fact #1: BigBasket is not alone, there have been a spate of data breaches at other digital entiti…

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A brief history of the internet in India

A brief history of the internet in India

Charles Assisi is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience to back him. He is co-founder an…

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Where 'they' ends and 'we' begins

Where 'they' ends and 'we' begins

Just how people who write fiction exercise the "imagination muscle" is a question that has always intrigued m…

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A leaf out of history to understand Cryptos

A leaf out of history to understand Cryptos

Cryptocurrencies were first thought up as an act of defiance against the establishment that include banks and…

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Why IRCTC was selling passenger data

Why IRCTC was selling passenger data

The Indian Railways (IRCTC) made headlines earlier this week when news broke that it has invited bids from fi…

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Always take a shot at something you're bad at | Damodar Mall on cultivating his passion for Music

Always take a shot at something you're bad at | Damodar Mall on cultivating his passion for Music

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Articles

What is freedom to a teenage girl?: Life Hacks by Charles Assisi

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By Charles Assisi Verified
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A few days before Independence Day, I asked my daughter and her friends, all aged 13 or 14: What does freedom mean to you? I told them they didn’t have to answer right away. They could sleep on it and text me their responses. The answers started to arrive on WhatsApp, and were a bit of a punch to the gut. “freedom to me would be being able to dye my hair, get alotttt of piercings, being able to travel the world and being able to go out without the fear of a man kidnapping me,” my daughter wrote.
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‘Truckers are similar to F1 drivers.’ Really?

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By Charles Assisi Verified
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Once upon a time, truck drivers were, well, truck drivers. But that was then. That narrative recently came under scrutiny in a conversation with the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at a new age logistics company with a global footprint who said that he looks at every truck in his fleet as a Formula 1 car. These are expensive machines that can cost a few million dollars apiece. That is why he insists the people who drive them be described as Formula 1 drivers. ‘Truckers are similar to F1 drivers.’ Really?
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Age against the machine: Charles Assisi on seniors and Digital India

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By Charles Assisi Verified
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Mum’s set-top box went on the blink last week. She lives in Fort Kochi, and I was on a work call in Mumbai, when a cousin who lives in Bengaluru began to call persistently. He is the tech-head every elder in the family turns to when in need. How was I to know he was calling because he needed an OTP? The OTP expired and we had to start the rather torturous process of trying, across three cities, to prove our authenticity as users and resolve the issue online.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Sub-editor

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

GIGO. Garbage in. Garbage out

Awards

Polestar Awar

1999 - Best Feature in Technology Journalism

The PoleStar Foundation, instituted in 1998, recognises, honours and celebrates the outstanding contribution made by Indian media professionals and social impact organisations. For many years now, this annual award pays tribute to the journalists and social impact enablers for their contribution and commitment to the nation and its people, and also for tirelessly acting as a catalyst in disseminating quality information and support to the world. In 2017, the Foundation broadened its focus by including Social Impact Awards, to recognise those organisations who have been relentlessly working on issues which have impacted the lives of people and have made a difference to the society. The award categories in Journalism are Best Feature in Technology Journalism, Best Feature in Business Journalism and Best Good News Feature that have appeared in print or online media. In Social Impact, the award categories are Education, Empowerment, Health and Livelihood. (https://www.polestar-foundation.org)

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