The Ministry of Road Transports and Highways recently notified all national highway toll plazas to dedicate all lanes except one cashless lanes using FastTag. The Ministry is effectively making FastTag mandatory from December 1, 2019. FastTag is India's version of the electronic toll system being implemented using the ISO standard equivalent for RFID based toll collection. All new vehicles since 2018 in the country have been sold with FastTag installed at the time of registration. To discuss the impact and design of FastTag, we have Srikanth Lakshmanan who runs a collective called Cashless Consumer focusing on cashless payments.

<div>The Ministry of Road Transports and Highways recently notified all national highway toll plazas to dedicate all lanes except one cashless lanes using FastTag. The Ministry is effectively making FastTag mandatory from December 1, 2019. FastTag is India's version of the electronic toll system being implemented using the ISO standard equivalent for RFID based toll collection. All new vehicles since 2018 in the country have been sold with FastTag installed at the time of registration. To discuss the impact and design of FastTag, we have Srikanth Lakshmanan who runs a collective called Cashless Consumer focusing on cashless payments.</div>

The second season of Cyber Democracy podcast focuses on understanding how technology is a site for gendered politics in India. Through conversations with female and trans-queer grassroots practitioners, the podcast will discuss how our gender and intersectional identities shape our experiences of and engagements with technologies and the Internet.

Show Host: Radhika Radhakrishnan
 (https://twitter.com/so_radhikal)

Season 1

What does Democracy mean in this age of cyber? How does the government benefit from the sale of our data? What is data economy? And does the internet give us the right to be forgotten? These and many more questions will be discussed, debated and answered in Cyber Democracy, a new podcast offering from Suno India.

Show Host: Srinivas Kodali (https://twitter.com/digitaldutta)

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