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Producing a better secure electoral voting system

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Here is the complete procedure to make a secure voting system. We require a unique key for every voter. The unique key is generated by using: 1) Public Key: Voter Id or Adhaar Number 2) Private key: A random key (6-8 character alphanumeric key) from mind, at the time of voting 3) Vote symbol A read-only machine generates a unique key using the cryptographic function on the public key, private key and vote symbol. Then ballot paper is printed from the machine that has the unique key. The voter casts its vote in the ballot paper. The votes in ballot paper are counted using a machine and also the scan of the ballot paper is uploaded on the website after results are declared. Machine learning has become so powerful that it can count the vote without any error. When the result is declared the public can check whether that ballot paper (that has the unique key) exists on the website with the correct voting symbol. The voter can authenticate that his/her vote has been counted. Merits: 1) Com...

Country needs an independent news analysis institution to provide feedback to media

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How to analyze news and what shall be the criteria? Are the information provided backed by the evidence? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8x9dkicaW23WmZhREpYYzhJeDA/view Do they site down the evidence in the news? Do evidence are from reliable sources with rigorous testing? Does the news show one-sided or biased views without looking at all angles? Is the information provided is an opinion/belief/viewpoint or hypothesis or scientific theory? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8x9dkicaW23OHRabldhNzJrcUE/view   Opinion: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge . Does the hypothesis/claim is well tested and is statistically significant to draw the conclusion? Alternate and Null Hypothesis Is media promoting pseudoscience? Does the discussion done come under any of the logical fallacy or cognitive biases? For more detailed explanation of logical fallacy with examples is given in or https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ Important details for Evaluat...

All books that don't meet the learning criteria must be taken off

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Learning About Learning Resources https://github.com/amiyatulu/teacher_resources Textbook must cover six fundamental instructional strategies while presenting the information, defined by rigorous research. 1) Pairing graphics with words 2) Linking abstract concepts with concrete representations Why we face difficulty to remember abstract concepts? https://iambrainstorming.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/why-we-face-difficulty-to-remember-non-concrete-information/ 3)  Posing probing questions http://mrkempnz.com/2014/06/questioning-the-most-powerful-tool-in-the-classroom-an-action-research.html "What Makes a Great Question?" rubric Why, how, what if, how do you know, what are the evidences What if and why not helps you to find alternatives to a solution 4) Repeatedly alternating problems with their solutions provided and problems that students must solve. Solved example and unsolved problem  with steps of problem-solving strategy: 1) sort 2)strategize 3) solve and 4) check.  Che...

When to respond to the attackers? Are you giving free airtime to them?

If you are popular and have power, everything you do, share influences others. Anything you speak or write publicly, it's shared by thousands of people. So it's become very important to learn how to speak and write publicly.  You become the center of information, which gets transferred to everyone. Whatever you speak is most likely to be attacked because different people have different opinions, and some may have vested interest to attack. More controversial the topic is more attackers you will have. As a human we dislike attacks, so we start defending the attacks. Does responding to the attacks helps? In most of the time, it doesn't. You are only giving free airtime to them, knowing that you will respond, they will attack with a greater intensity. So what to do in such situation? If the critic is as popular as you, he/she can propagandize his opinion in a biased manner, even spreading rumors, non-factual, partial information that is logically correct to convince people tha...

Completely simplifying UTS Ticketing System which can be used everywhere

Simplifying UTS Ticketing System which can be used in every station: We need two things: 1) OTP generator in Station (To track the location, no requirement of GPS) 2) A mobile app for payment and entering the OTP Railways job is to provide a unique account id and password to each customer after authenticating them. Use that unique account id and password to register on the app. You can add and change the mobile number. You can also change the password. When you go to the station, in the OTP generator, enter the unique account id, and get the OTP displayed on the OTP generator. OTP can also be sent to the mobile. OTP will work only for 15 mins etc. Enter the OTP on the registered mobile app, choose the route, pay and get ticket by SMS Payment can be done with using payment gateways or with balance kept on the account. You can add balance with payment gateways, may be with depositing money through railways or directly through gateways when you have no balance in your account. It solves m...

Data-driven evidence based politics

How politician should work in India, in order to make the country successful? Share you views at qoura: http://qr.ae/RLzCuX Do political party work based upon their hypothesis, or use unbiased data to make decisions? Recent data shows that, while voting for a particular party, people are more interested in the main leader (CM or PM) who will lead the state or country and does not much depend upon who are MLAs and MPs But are political parties working in creating new leaders with value? Most of the time, a party lose an election is due to lack of a proper competitive leader in opposition. Proper examples would be Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal etc. Even though they are/were low-performing states, the opposition lost the election. Common people without political background does not even notice who were the leader in opposition. In Bihar, BJP tried to highlight Modi, but people are not giving votes to Modi, they are giving the vote to the state leader. So why don't the opposition spent mo...

How making an aahaar api can revolutionize India in providing personalized and accurate information?

Every citizen of India has Unique Identification Number: Aadhaar. Many websites in health care, railways and almost all sites use your personal details. But the problem is, some times these personal details can be inaccurate. There can be many reasons for it. e.g. Storing the birth data of child in eMunicipality portal: The nurse writes about Mother and Father details in a form. From between writing the form to feeding it into the eMunicipality portal, there are lots of chances of feeding wrong data. Some of the reasons are: 1) Listening error of nurse, so the nurse write the wrong information 2) Laziness and lack of time for nurse to fill all the fields on the paper form 3) Spelling errors of name and address details. 4) Person who is doing data entry in eMunicipality portal unable to recognize the handwriting (as we all know doctors write in horrible handwriting, which an expert can only read) 5) Person who is doing data entry, fills the compulsory field with arbitrary data (such as ...

Shouldn't there be Whatsapp number for reporting simple issues to police?

Share your views on quora:  http://qr.ae/RoAGa0 Today I tried dialing to police with number 100 to report a simple fraud call that my aunt received. The person who called was asking for ATM pin. When my aunt was able to find the call was fraud, the person started speaking in vulgar language. When I said, I will report it to police, he said that "Police kya tumhara uncle lagta hai" (Is police your uncle). See how fearless they are. There is not even a little fear of police. And this case is not new. Its a general issue with most families. When I complained about it to police by dialing 100. They said to come to police station to report the case. I can understand that police might be receiving lots of call that are important. But why there is no helpline numbers to report such problem. If police are hesitant to receive such call, then there should be a whatsapp number to report such cases so that people can text them and later police can review it and take action based upon the...