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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Far on terror

True development can kill terror

The equation has become simple in the new age of terrorism

between the developed and least developed world. You either help or face the consequences for not helping. BBC, CNN et al speculated that global terrorist organisations like Al-Qaeda have entered into the diamond trade in Africa, which exemplifies that Africa is becoming prime concern for global security. Ironically, many countries like Ghana, Senegal, Mali and Benin are witnessing GDP growth but not able to eliminate hunger, poverty. While these factors remain rampant in the world’s poorest continent, they’ve become the critical weapons for terrorist recruiters.

While the US has invested over $22 billion in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, for development assistance, it has contributed less than $15 billion per year globally. Any small help for Africa’s socio-economic development by US would help it in the long run, as researchers predict that US can not only meet 25% of its energy requirements from Africa, but can also gain from Africa’s growing population and emerging trade position. The saying is apt – An idle mind is a devil’s workshop; a poor and hungry one, a terrorist’s.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Dr. Google’s Clinic

Google is also about secure personal health records?
It was three months ago, that Google revealed its pilot project that was aimed to help patients with personal health records in association with the esteemed Cleveland Clinic. This officially launched health portal will allow all netizens to keep a track of their current medical records and past trends, thus allowing all patients who receive their health reports from multiple providers organise their reports on a central platform. Moreover, it will allow patients to enter their medical information into Google Personal Health Record (Google PHR).

Even few large clinics and health centres have shown interest in joining and collaborating with Google’s new portal. But behind all this hullabaloo, isn’t there a concern over leakage of personal medical data? Not really, as these medical records (once entered into Google PHR) become highly secure and very strictly confidential and every user who wants to access the files needs an authentication (password) to do so. In the arena of marketing, it was surprisingly made very clear by Google that there will be no advertising (where Google holds 35.3% of global ad-servers, which contributes to 99% of its reveneus) in Google health as of now. Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User Products explains the initiative as, “Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that supports with our overall mission of organising patient information and making it accessible and useful. Through our offering, our users will be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical records online.”

Google has made sure that it carries on its tag of simplicity even with this portal besides making it private and high on security parameters sans ads. With competiton only in the form of Microsoft’s Healthvault (a similar online service launched in October 2007), there’s nothing bloody in the air. And for the netizens, they now have two highly secure portals to keep their health records intact (if not their health).

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Mahathir’s closing gambit

While the former Malaysian Prime Minister has been out of power, he has support of the cadres
Malaysia could be in for weeks and months of political turmoil,

instability and uncertainty about its future. For a long time, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed has been criticising his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. The war of words between the two has now resulted in a vertical split, with the 82-year-old Mahathri Mohamed quitting the ruling alliance United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). While resigning, Mohamed has levelled serious charges of incompetence, corruption and nepotism against Badawi. Analysts expect many members of UMNO to follow Mohamed and leave. This could jeopardise the future of UMNO that has been ruling Malaysia ever since the nation attained independence in 1957.

Mahathir has been waging a war of words against Abdullah for more than two years, repeatedly asking fellow party members to revolt against the alleged misrule of Badawi. It would now appear that Mahathir has finally burnt his boats with the political party which he ran with an iron fist for the 22 years that he served as Prime Minister of Malaysia. Of course, many senior leaders of UMNO think that the days of the 82-year-old leader calling the shots have gone. According to senior leader Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the abrupt departure of Mohamed will hardly have any impact on the fortunes of the ruling alliance as he believes Mahathir Mohamed is a spent force who is acting petulantly because Badawi refuses to let Mohamed dictate terms.

Yet, Badawi and his associates will not find it easy to write off the ageing war horse. Mahathir Mohamed still enjoys the respect and admiration of many Malaysians who credit him for transforming the country from a poor, third world nation into a modern and prosperous economy. Many fondly recall the role played by the former Prime Minister during the East Asian financial crisis and melt down of 1997. Thanks to pragmatic steps taken by him, Malaysia and its citizens were the least affected by the crisis.

Some of Mahathir''s allegations of economic mismanagement have resonated with the Malaysian public as inflation rises. Besides, Badawi''s public campaign against corruption has not shown any dramatic successes. His promise to fight corruption has shown few results. Although he has been out of power for six years, Mahathir is believed to control as much as half the party at the division levels. Speculation is rife that he would form a new ethnic political party. Taking members of Parliament out of UMNO, the lead party in the ruling national coalition, would cut its 140-82 seat majority by an as-yet undetermined number. This could well spell the end of the coalition, which has ruled Malaysia for five decades.

Much of the antipathy within UMNO is directed against Prime Minister Badawi’s son-in-law, Kairy Jamiluddin, who it is believed has too much influence over Badawi. Kairy is seen as a de facto power, interfering in the day-to-day running of the country''s administration. Others say he is obsessed with placing too many of his own people in positions of power. Political stability is important for Malaysia because it remains one of few Muslim majority countries where al-Qaeda has been unable to spread its ideology of hatred. However, analysts now worry that prolonged political instability and citizen anger against the Badawi regime could just open the door for Islamic fundamentalists to spread wings.

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Friday, October 10, 2008

Indians Rising

Taste the West while being in East
All the happiness of life lies in the Western Countries is no longer a reality; feel upwardly mobile young Indians. Graduates from IITs and other Engineering Colleges, or from IIMs and other top Business Schools command income packages that are indistinguishable with their Western counterparts.

Their tastes are similar with the rich young Westerners-many own

high-end luxury cars and wear designers clothes, employ maids and a full time cook, and regularly vacation abroad. By 2025, there will be 9.5 million Indians in this class and their spending power will hit 14.1 trillion rupees- 20% of total Indian consumption. Long-established spending attitudes are already changing rapidly. For generations, Indians did their daily shopping at fresh-food markets and regarded packaged foods as ‘stale’. However, just like their Western counterparts, a new generation of busy urban Indians is starting to appreciate the convenience and choice offered by packaged foods.

Therefore the professional Indians are getting a lifestyle of the developed world even after being in India. This adds to the belongingness and cultural compatibility to the affluent lifestyle they already have and would like to have. The bonus is the legacy of ‘best of both worlds’ to the young and vibrant professionals and upwardly mobile Indians.

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IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Corrupt sports

All forms of bribery present here
It is a general notion that corruption in sports governing bodies

is limited to developing countries only. But not quite, though. The highest governing body in sports, International Olympic Committee had accepted bribes- in the form of cash, entertainment, business favors, travel expenses, medical expenses, and even college tuition fees for members’ children. There were seven high level inquiries held into the Olympic Games city-bidding process recently.

It includes US-based probe into Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics; an Australian enquiry into Sydney Olympic Games, an investigation in Japan and 2012 Olympic Games in London. There are 30 or more than a quarter of suspected delegates in IOCs own enquiry. The US Olympic Committee Ethics panel probe into Salt Lake City bid, in which $1.2 million was paid to IOC delegates to secure their votes. David F. D’Allessandro, President of John Hancock described the Sydney Olympic Games bidding process as a “clear cut” case of bribery and denounced the IOCs response as a “classic cover up”. Bidding for 2012 Olympic Games in London is also riddled with corruption, with so-called “agents” promising to deliver dozens of IOC votes in return for bribes, an undercover BBC TV programme claimed. After Los Angeles made $215 million profit from 1984 Olympic Games by selling exclusive rights to various corporate sponsorship categories –a scramble began between cities for the right to host the games and secure profits that could be made in tourism, construction, transport, and other industries. As competition between companies and cities increased, and profit climbed, so did opportunities for bribery and corruption, for IOC and indiviudals.

IOCs nepotism, vote-selling and other forms of corruption are now coming to light with no surprise. They are infact inevitable by-products of vast sums of money and multi-million dollar profits surrounding the event.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative