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Three-day Bengaluru Tech Summit starting November 16; PM Modi to inaugurate

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Bengaluru: The Department of Electronics, IT, Bt, S&T, Government of Karnataka along with Software Technology Parks of India is organising the 25th edition of Asia’s largest Tech Event – Bengaluru Tech Summit.
The flagship event will be held physically during November 16-18,,2022, at the iconic Bangalore Palace. The central theme of BTS 2022 is ‘Tech4NexGen’ and will focus on Electronics, IT, Deep Tech, Biotech, and Startups, an official statement said on Tuesday.
As part of the landmark 25th-year celebrations, BTS 2022 will witness the unveiling of the Silver Jubilee Commemoration Plaque of BengaluruTechSummit2022 by Chief Minister Basavaraj S. Bommai, along with the felicitation of 35 companies from ITE and Biotech who have completed over 25 years of service in Bengaluru.

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The event will also witness the coming together of global tech leaders, Indian corporates and startups from IT, Deep tech and Biotech, showcasing disruptive technologies, and forging partnerships and alliances.
C N Ashwath Narayan, Minister for Electronics, Information Technology, Biotechnology, Science and Technology, Higher Education, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood, Government of Karnataka, said: “BTS is today a landmark event recognized globally and puts India on the global technology map, making it one of the leading technology summits in the country. Our future will be defined by current innovations and technological advancements, which is at the heart of BTS2022 – ‘Tech4NexGen’. The summit this year will focus on future technologies, along with electronics, IT, deep tech, biotech and startups.”
The Karnataka minister said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the event and address the gathering on November 16.
The inauguration ceremony will also be graced by the presence of various global leaders such as Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic (virtual), Omar Bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, UAE; Tim Watts, Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia; Petri Honkonen, Minister of Science and Culture of Finland, Finland and Martin Schroeter, Chairman & CEO, Kyndryl USA.
The inaugural function will also be adorned by Naveen Tewari, Founder and CEO, Inmobi — India’s first unicorn, the statement added.

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China Strengthens Surveillance Network In Tibet, Opens New Big Data Centre In Lhasa

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China is set to develop its AI and Big Data capabilities and applications, which will strengthen the existing surveillance network in Tibet.

Lhasa:  China is set to develop its AI and Big Data capabilities and applications, which will strengthen the existing surveillance network in Tibet.

As per Tibet Rights Collective (TRC), reports have suggested that a new centre for big data began operation in Lhasa. According to local media reports, it is the “first such centre at the regional level and a step toward big data integration and application sharing”.

Chinese Communist Party has claimed that this will help “to boost digital services including government affairs, economic development, social governance, people’s livelihoods, market supervision, finance, border prosperity, ecological environment protection, emergency fire control and cultural tourism,” reported TRC.

In 2020, it declared that it is building the world’s highest-altitude cloud computing data centre in Tibet that “will meet the data storage needs of the country and South Asian nations like Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan”.

This comes after recent reports about DNA collection by CCP in Tibet. Chinese authorities are significantly increasing policing, including an arbitrary collection of DNA from residents in many towns and villages throughout the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Human Rights Watch said in a report in September 2022, reported TRC.

These mass DNA collection drives appear to be taking place in all seven prefectures or municipalities in the TAR, which covers the western part of the Tibetan plateau, observed HRW.

According to another report published in September by The Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto, Chinese authorities may have collected roughly between 919,282 and 1,206,962 DNA samples in areas of Tibet referred to by the Chinese government as the Tibet Autonomous Region since 2016.

The report found that Chinese officers visited fields, monasteries, residential neighbourhoods, businesses, and even schools to collect “pin-prick blood samples” from Tibetans, reported TRC.

According to Students For Free Tibet, the Chinese government is building the world’s largest police-run DNA database with the help of key industry partners in the West.

The organisation also recently launched a campaign against the Chinese government’s aggressive DNA collection drive and Thermo Fisher’s involvement in the programme, reported TRC.

The objective is to let “Thermo Fisher know that their provision of DNA profiling technology to a heinous and dystopian data collection drive breaches the most fundamental human rights of the Tibetan people and must cease immediately”.

China’s State Council Information Office on Monday also issued a white paper titled “Jointly Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace”.

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“To build a community with a shared future in cyberspace, we should hold to a vision of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits in global governance, and promote a multilateral, democratic and transparent international internet governance system.

We strive to realize the goals of innovation-driven development, security, order, equality, respect, openness, and shared interests in cyberspace, so that cyberspace will be a community that benefits all of humanity,” the white paper said.

In 2019, Nikkei Asia had reported on how the major Chinese tech players are advancing into the region, seizing on the chance to market their artificial intelligence and big-data capabilities as the government seeks to encourage growth and tighten its grip on the area.

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