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Applications to the Institute are now closed. Due to the large volume of applications, only selected candidates will be notified of the outcome of their application by 6 January 2025.
In March 2025, the Trump Administration initiated a series of enquiries through the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on unfair and non-reciprocal trade practices in countries currently trading with the United States. The intent of the query is to slap tariffs on countries that are currently not permitting trade on terms that…
The Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) welcomes and commends the recent joint statement issued on 26 February by the Presidents of Chile, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay, titled ‘Commitment to Democracy and Global Governance’. This landmark declaration recognizes the urgent need for “joint actions to address inequality, disinformation and the malicious use of social…
Instead of flexi-work and increased labor participation for women, the platform economy has deepened intersectional inequalities—of gender, class, geography, and race—making women workers more vulnerable. At the Beijing+30 conjuncture, we urgently need multi-scalar policy responses that can get our institutions ready for a feminist future of work…
IT for Change responded to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”) sub-committee’s Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development. Our comments largely addressed the need to address issues around generative AI, mitigating bias in AI training, and improving transparency.
Highlights from our feedback are as follows:
- It is necessary to…
IT for Change wrote a chapter - "RTE in Karnataka: Pursuit of Equitable and Inclusive Education through RTE", for the publication, "Implementation of the right of children to Free and Compulsory Education act, 2009: Where do we stand? Status report 2024" of the Right to Education Cell (RTE CELL) of The Council for Social Development (CSD).
The…
The starting point of this paper is that the value extraction apparatus of digital labor platforms can be understood only by deploying a ‘reproductive lens’ and not through a exclusive focus on their algorithmic optimization strategies in mediating the labor marketplace. Rooted in an in-depth empirical exploration of the experiences of 19 women…
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The Global Digital Compact – an “add and stir gender” déjà vu?
Nov 2024
The Global Digital Compact upholds “gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and their full, equal and meaningful participation” as a core principle for digital cooperation [para 8(d)]. The extraordinary complexity of our times, which the digital phenomenon has only intensified, requires us to unpack…
MSMEs and e-commerce adoption: Lessons from India
Nov 2024
Why do micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) struggle with using digital marketplaces such as Amazon or Facebook for their operations? How can we make digital marketplaces more advantageous for smaller players? In this blogpost, I reflect on some of the key findings of a study that I conducted titled “Beyond…
The Global Digital Compact is here: What now for civil society?
Oct 2024
On 22 September 2024, at the UN Summit of the Future, member states adopted the Global Digital Compact (GDC): a framework for multistakeholder digital cooperation at the global level that sets out objectives, principles, commitments and actions for “an inclusive, open, sustainable, fair, safe and secure digital future…
When teachers learned the art of writing
Oct 2024
Can 'digitally facilitated' writing enable teachers to develop themselves as academic writers? This was the question that an IT for Change team attempted to answer through a 'Writing workshop for government school teachers'. The teachers' response was unequivocal. Thirteen of them wrote a paper based on an innovation…
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