Want to buy a SIM while travelling to India? Passport and other identification papers may not be good enough. You will need two guarantors to get a new mobile connection, said The Economic Times.
Harnessing Data for Democratic Development in South and Southeast Asia: Pakistan Country Report
This report on data governance in Pakistan is part of the “Harnessing Data for Democratic Development in South and Southeast Asia” (D4DAsia) project, which aims, inter alia, to create and mobilize new knowledge about the tensions, gaps, and evolution of the data governance ecosystem, taking into account both formal and informal policies and practices. This report is also part of a broader comparative effort that includes case studies from India, Indonesia, Nepal, South Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines.
LIRNEasia expertise contributes to Sri Lanka’s first National Policy on Archives and Records Management
Archives and records management is a critical foundation of any society, but especially in information societies that are emerging now. Unfortunately, this subject tends to be neglected.
Data governance in Pakistan is no longer a technical issue; it is a democratic one
In an article published on 26 January 2026 in The News Pakistan, LIRNEasia Senior Policy Fellow Muhammad Aslam Hayat highlights how data has become a powerful instrument of governance in Pakistan, yet the frameworks governing data remain fragmented and heavily skewed in favour of state control rather than citizen rights. He stresses that Pakistan does not need more data; it needs better rules to govern it.
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Donald Gaminitillake
Today I went to re register the mobile phone to Mobitel
I told them that I am the owner but my wife use it
Mobitel wants my wife to be photograph but not me!!!
They are not worried about the registered owner only the user.
Therefore why not reregister all motor vehicles in Srilanka and say All occupants need to be registered.
Then we can get rid of most of the three wheelers, Buses, Govt cars, escort vehicles.
I was told that the world oil reserves only last until 2012 Thereafter a rapid decline.
With the oil reserves that each country have only Mexico can survive for 90 odd years and US will be less than 5 years.
Time is very short better buy some Cattle Horses and Donkeys commence feeding them. ASAP
Donald Gaminitillake
I set the Standard