ReGenAI
'ReGenAI: A New Deal for the AI Economy' challenges the prevailing AI paradigm, characterized by precarity, market concentration, exclusion, and ecological harm.
Even as AI systems are becoming increasingly central to economic organization, public services and geopolitical power, governance approaches remain narrowly focused on downstream risks and harmful use-cases, leaving the underlying conditions of AI production largely unaddressed.
This issue brief advances a Global South perspective on AI…
IT for Change submitted its feedback/comments on the draft amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 ("IT Rules") relating to synthetically generated information released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Our submission highlighted two key issues of the proposed amendment:
(i) Labeling…
IT for Change invites applications from South and Southeast Asia to join the FemFirst Lab.
Objective
To incubate feminist AI prototypes that seek to address challenges of gender equality in a manner that is community-driven, responsive to local needs, and advances social justice and human rights.
What we offer
A 12-month incubation period for…
Our Executive Director, Anita Gurumurthy, is a member of the UN CSTD Working Group on Data Governance. In line with its mandate under Para 48 of the UN Global Digital Compact, the Working Group is exploring follow-up recommendations towards equitable and interoperable data governance arrangements, through deliberations on four key tracks:
Fundamental principles of…
In the recent times, with the increasing use of digital technologies in the field of education, there is a need to re-examine school cultures and classroom teaching methods. There is a need for teachers to critically examine their role in the education system as being a transformative one. Traditionally, social science education has not been…
Prakriye and Hosa Hejje Hosa Dishe are our two field projects leveraging digital technologies towards empowering women and girls from marginalized contexts.
With a history of 20+ years, the Prakriye project has been working with women and girls across rural Mysuru. Through women-led community information centres, and forums, these initiatives…
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ನಮ್ಮ ಶಾಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಖ ಗುರುತಿಸುವಿಕೆ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ ಅಗತ್ಯವೇ?
Aug 2025
ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಶಾಲಾ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಇಲಾಖೆ ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ಆರ್ಟಿಫಿಶಿಯಲ್ ಇಂಟೆಲಿಜೆನ್ಸ್ (AI) ಹಾಗು ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ಆಧಾರಿತ ಮುಖ ಗುರುತಿಸುವಿಕೆ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯೊಂದನ್ನು (Facial Recognition System) ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಅನುದಾನಿತ ಶಾಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಜಾರಿಗೆ ತರುವುದಾಗಿ ಘೋಷಿಸಿದೆ. ಈ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಬಳಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ SATSಗೆ ಜೋಡಣೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಶಾಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಜರಾತಿ, ಹಾಗು, ಬಿಸಿ ಊಟದಂತಹ ಇತರ…
All the Rightful Inheritors of the Classroom
Jun 2025
I wear a mask. Not like the crime-fighting vigilante Batman but like a self-conscious child at a fancy dress competition, trying to fit in. The mask becomes stark in June, Pride Month, which also marks the beginning of the school academic year. Over weekends, I plunge into community mobilisation and conversations on…
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…
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