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IT for Change, in partnership with the Center for Global Digital Justice (CGDJ), along with Third World Network and Global Policy Forum, seeks to build a sector-specific, contextually grounded pro-South vision of data justice principles through a 10-month project. Under this engagement, we will work with progressive civil society organizations and…
This report explores the digitalization of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India's agriculture and allied sectors, focusing on how these enterprises are navigating the evolving digital landscape. MSMEs are a critical part of the Indian economy, contributing significantly to employment, industrial production, and exports. However, despite growing efforts to…
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…
On behalf of IT for Change, Merrin Muhammed Ashraf submitted comments on the recently released OECD Draft Recommendations on Information Integrity. The draft Recommendation aims to provide guidance for policy makers to promote information integrity in line with the universal human rights of freedom of opinion and expression.
IT for Change submitted comments on the…
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…
IT for Change, with support from Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, is undertaking a project ‘Pathways to Gender Equality in the Platform Economy: Evolving a Policy Agenda for Beijing+30’, commencing in January 2025.
Belying initial optimism, platformization has not opened up empowering flexi-work opportunities that address traditional constraints to 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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