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Executive Summary of High Level DPG Event Held at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY High-Level Dialogue on AI and Digital Public Goods At the Sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 Date Friday, 20 February 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST Venue Royal Norwegian Embassy, New Delhi Hosted by Royal Norwegian Embassy & Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), in partnership with the Digital Public…
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A Security focused AI Centre for Norway: What could it do?
This is a high level overview of the NORA SIG event hosted by Simula on 9th April at their office in Oslo. The Security in AI event hosted by Simula showcased a series of insightful talks addressing the multifaceted challenges and opportunities at the intersection of AI, security, and law. This summary consolidates key ideas…
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Deconstructing the Smart Home Appliances Stack: contemplating possibilities for the future
General Introduction The famous Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen said, “software is eating the world”[1]. By, which he means that increasingly we are bringing software into core of systems to increase efficiency, lower down the cost or time involved in the functioning of a device and its processes. As software proliferates into various walks of…
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Design Choices for Smart Home Context: A sneak peak into the future.
Technology led development for the optimist presents a great opportunity and a possible way to free from the drudgery of poverty and labor. On the other hand the pessimist may like to accuse the same exponentially scalable impact on the darker side, a view that may scare most of us! The gadgets in the smart…
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Experiencing the Varjo XR3 headset at their Oslo Office
I recently had the opportunity of experiencing the Varjo XR3 headset in a more relaxed setting at their Oslo office. First time I tried the headset was in London and I could not fully appreciate the capabilities. I am now increasingly convinced that headset like Varjo fill the gap for business workflows which consumer headset…
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Can the new Image generating AI models teach us a new language?
We have recently seen two major announcements on the new class of Image generating AI models which can take natural language prompts / triggers and generate fascinating images. The first one is DALLE2 from OpenAI and the second one from Google called as Imagen. When the entry barrier to generate amazing images is lowered down…






