What Is Shadow IT? The first problem with cautioning lawyers about the dangers of “shadow IT” is that most of them have no earthly idea what it is. So let’s start there. Leading research company Gartner defines shadow IT as IT devices, software and services (including cloud services) outside the ownership or control of the IT department of a business. Once lawyers understand the definition, they generally say that everything is within the control of their IT department. Most of the time, that answer would be wrong, though many don’t know it. Just the Facts, Please Studies by Gartner have revealed that shadow IT constitutes an amazing 30% to 40% of IT spending in big enterprises. Advisory firm CEB estimates that the percentage is 40%. Everest Group research states that it makes up 50% or more of the spending. No need to split hairs — all three numbers are big. Small law firms are not immune to this trend. How many law firm services are in the cloud, especially today? And are they all under the control and direction of the IT department? The likely answer is no. re They All Renegades? Absolutely not. In fact, shadow IT is sometimes implicitly permitted or even encouraged. Many would argue that shadow IT makes businesses more competitive and allows for enhanced collaboration and innovation. In their view, users discover applications or services that allow them to do their jobs better or more easily, and IT can subsequently go in and secure the applications or services. In our experience, this is not a useful way to approach risky behavior by employees, the consequences of which can be dire. Why do employees go outside the firm’s IT folks? Sometimes, an IT department moves slower than the average tortoise or routinely raises objections to what

The Apex Court took suo motu cognizance and registered a case on the issue of long pendency of criminal appeals filed before Allahabad High Court. The court is looking forward to frame guidelines for granting bail to those convicts who’ve been forced to undergo long years of sentence due to the uninterrupted delay in hearing of their appeals. The division bench of Supreme Court took this step after finding that the suggestions given by Allahabad HC are cumbersome. Also, several convicts had approached the apex court and sought for suspension of sentence as their criminal appeals had not been listed before Allahabad HC. The bench in its order noted that in case appeal is pending before High Court and the convict has already undergone 8 years of imprisonment, then the convict ought to be released on bail, in most cases, though the matter has not been taken up by the court. With respect to this, the bench has asked the High Court to look into each case and determine whether they satisfy the above criteria to be released on bail. Furthermore, the bench highlighted the helplessness of a convict who might not have been able to request access of legal aid for moving in a bail application. Moreover, in cases where the accused approaches the court, there should be mechanism that such cases be heard promptly. The bench has directed the Allahabad HC to explore the cases and come up with a policy in this regard within 4 weeks, and consider grant of bail for those convicts who’ve been sentenced to life imprisonment and have already undergone half of it. The Supreme Court has addressed this issue through its suo motu cognizance in order to grant relief to convicts whose criminal appeals are not being taken up the Allahabad High

DELHI SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTION OF EMINENCE , UNIVERSITY OF DELHI in collaboration with NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY AND JUDICIAL ACADEMY ASSAM and BHARTIYA SHIKSHAN MANDAL and NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OPEN SCHOOLING, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA is organising Online Faculty Development Program on MOOCS AND E-Learning in context of National Education Policy[OCT 18-24, 2021] bout the Programme Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are gaining momentum all across the world in the recent times ensuring access to quality education over web.  Considering the importance of MOOCs, this Faculty Development Program aims to be a forum for the stakeholders to discuss and deliberate on potential of MOOCs and its optimum utilisation in the field of education policy. It will witness engaging sessions from various experts in stakeholders not only for sensitization but also for its effective implementation. “Uninterrupted Education, Anytime Anywhere”, should be the motto of our education policy BOUT DSPP&G (IOE) The Delhi School of Public Policy and Governance (DSPP&G) at the University of Delhi has been established under the Institute of Eminence (IOE) of the University. BOUT NLUJA, ASSAM NLUJA, Asaam is endowed with state of the art world-class infrastructure. It is a member in the family of the 22 National Law Universities established across the country BOUT BHARTIYA SHIKSHAN MANDAL Bhartiya Shikshan Mandal was founded in the year 1969 is working with the objective of national resurgence in the field of education BOUT NIOS, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NIOS is the largest Open Schooling system in the world with cumulative enrolment of 4.13 million (during last 5 years) Programme Schedule The Faculty Development Program will be one week programme (seven days) from October 18, 2021 to October 24, 2021 in the afternoon (2 p.m. to 5 p.m.). The Faculty Development Program shall have well-renowned speakers from India and abroad. Vice-chancellors,