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Thursday, April 13, 2023

You cannot "find" data, if you cannot recognise it

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I have written in earlier blogs about the trouble with GIGO (Garbage-In-Garbage-Out), which basically means that if the data that goes into...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Planning and the Complexity Conundrum

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Implementing at the cost of Planning A characteristic feature of large urban development schemes in India is that they are heavily implement...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Regarding farcical flirting...and GIS based master plans

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Earlier today, I wrote the following on my linkedin status - GIS based Master Plans...it's a bit like saying pen based novels...or camer...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Solving the "land" variable in land-titling equations (and some more on tackling complex urban problems)

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My previous blogs have stressed the importance of operational parameters of large and complex urban development projects and how their imple...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

(Smart when you create...dumb when you consume) <-- How to recognise unnecessary technology and some Jaga Mission Stories

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The challenge of humanity, since the industrial revolution, has not been one of scarcity, but one of excess (and of the exploitation and ine...
Monday, January 16, 2023

With great power comes great...Idiocy !

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One of the tragedies of computers in the present times is that they are almost always used for things which they are not supposed to be used...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

The importance of Operational Parameters...and the pointlessness of Data-hunting-gathering

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The tragedy of data-hunting-gathering  A defining feature of urban poverty alleviation programs in India in the present times is their ever ...