KATHMANDU, Sept 12: In line with the government's commitment to digitize administrative services, all procedures related to company registration will transition to online platforms starting from October 2.

Hijacking democracy

March 5, 2020 08:53 am

Algorithms will soon be a big part of human society. It is already being used to determine what people see on online platforms, detect traffic violations on the busy streets of cosmopolitan cities, suggest posts on social media, and fire unproductive employees. The general thinking is that the evaluations made by algorithms are objective and unbiased because they analyze huge amounts of data to make decisions.  This, however, is an incorrect assumption. Since people write software codes, human-biases often transfer in algorithms potentially threatening liberal democracy.