New Delhi:
Only the other day, Americans debated on whether Kamala Harris as Vice President was able to deliver.
But as the luck would have it, for 85 minutes on Nov 19, Kamala Harris became the first woman with presidential power.
To officially transfer the presidential powers to Harris, albeit on a temporary basis as stipulated by Constitutional norms, Joe Biden sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the president pro tempore of the Senate.
The oldest person to be America's president Biden turns 79 on Saturday.
The Section 3 of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution allows the President to delegate powersto the Vice President.
"@POTUS was in good spirits and at that time resumed his duties. He will remain at Walter Reed as he completes the rest of his routine physical," White House spokesperson Jen Psaki tweeted.
"The nation's first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president broke yet another barrier when she temporarily stepped into the acting role. Harris worked from her office in the West Wing while Biden was under anesthesia," said a CNN report.
Of course, Kamala Harris could be just a year away from launching a presidential campaign of her own.
She is the daughter of cancer biologist Shyamala Gopalan, who migrated from Chennai.
Kamala's father is of course a Jamaican.
The India-US relations have blossomed during the Trump stint and of course, the chemistry has survived the Democrats' rule in Washington too.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US visit recently has been an important strategic agenda of the year and so has been the two separate meetings he held with Joe Biden and also with Vice President Ms Harris.
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Jaishankar at The Sydney Dialogue Panel discussion on “Democracies and Global Technology Governance”
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Technology has always been a double edged sword. It has brought good but with every good that it has brought, it has brought new vulnerabilities and new challenges. And this is not unique to the digital age, it has always been so. Now what is different today? I think what is different today is that the impact it has on our daily lives, on our culture, on our psychology, on our behaviour is something of a totally different order. And what it has done is, at one level, it has raised issues of privacy, of accountability,
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Now, we can't have the tech world, the data world, essentially run on sort of 19th century principles of capitalism. So yes, on the one hand, we need freedom, we need openness, and we need the flows. But on the other hand, there has to be the basic regulations, a sense of equity, a sense of fairness. I mean, you can't have data pillaging as a basis for a global business. There are countries who would obviously like to build their own businesses; there are people who want to have control over their own data. So, I think those also need to be factored in and, you know, we are in a transition right now.
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Technology has created efficiencies in a way in which we couldn't have imagined. So there's a lot going for it, as well. And when you say democracy delivers it is also technology in democracies, which help deliver.
Technology is 'double edged', but helps democracies to deliver: Jaishankar
New Delhi:
Technology is critical in today's world and it helps democracies to 'deliver' better,External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has said and also maintained that the technology has always been a 'double edged sword'.
"It has brought good but with every good that it has brought, it has brought new vulnerabilities and new challenges.... Technology has created efficiencies in a way in which we couldn't have imagined. And when you say democracy delivers it is also technology in democracies, which helps deliver," Dr Jaishankar said participating at the Sydney Dialogue Panel discussion on “Democracies and Global Technology Governance”.
The Sydney Dialogue is an annual summit of cyber and critical technologies to discuss the fallout of the digital domain. It is an initiative of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. ...
Speaking in presence of the likes of Australian foreign minister Marise Payne,Dr Jaishankar also pointed out that "once upon a time we pretended all nations are the same, what happens
inside a nation doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you believe when we come to the table, we are all the same".
But he said things have changed. "Now, the fact is, in a much more interpenetrated world, much more globalised world, what you do at home, what you think, how you practice, matters to me. So I do think values matter. I do think practices matter. I do think issues of trust and transparency matter. And I think that's a very big issue of our era".
"You can't have data pillaging as a basis for a global business. There are countries who would obviously like to build their own businesses; there are people who want to have control over their own data. So, I think those also need to be factored in".
"...We can't have the tech world, the data world, essentially run on sort of 19th century principles of capitalism. So yes, on the one hand, we need freedom, we need openness, and we need the flow. But on the other hand, there has to be the basic regulations, a sense of equity, a sense of fairness," he
said.
During the discussion, Ms Payne said: "Making sure that technology is not abused is essential".
She also said from Australia's perspective, "we are very clear about where we think the lines of responsibility lie, very focused on ensuring that we, in our approach to technology, do walk within those agreed lines".
Dr Jaishankar also said that the technology has a political element."....And it is political in the sense that it is used by players to advance goals, some democratic, some non-democratic, they use it very differently. We are discussing the tough side of tech".
Dr Jaishankar said: "I think in fairness, we should also acknowledge right up front, technology has been empowered in a way in which it is inconceivable".
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