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Understanding the legal frameworks around algorithmic management and upholding worker rights.
The Global Digital Justice Forum responded to the Joint Questionnaire for CSTD's 20-year review of the World Summit on Information Society implementation. The submission focused on the fact that instead of the vision of "people-centered, inclusive and development oriented" future, the digital era has been driven by increasing exclusions, digital…
In collaboration with the Centre for Labour Studies, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, we presented a memo to the Karnataka government on creating a government-supported ride-hailing platform in the state. The memo focused on the issues and challenges faced by new entrants in digital markets like ride-hailing spaces, and how to govern the ecosystem in a way…
Ahead of the Thirteenth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Gender and Trade Coalition, a global alliance of international and regional feminist networks and progressive allies across civil society, academia and trade unions, has released a letter to the Member States and Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to…
The UN Secretary-General's AI Advisory Body recently launched its Interim Report: Governing AI for Humanity. The report’s proposal to strengthen and enhance the international governance of artificial intelligence (AI) is an important starting point towards bridging the critical global-level digital policy gap that widens with every passing day.
IT for Change…
IT for Change is conducting research on ‘Studying the Scaling of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) for English Language Learning’. This action research project studies how the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework (TPACK) can be used to up-scale TPD. The framework describes three main components of teachers’ knowledge: content…
This study was conducted by betterplace lab, and commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The study outlines the challenges, needs, and potential vis-à-vis feminist development policy in order to achieve a gender-just…
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Accelerating Bharat's Digital Agenda
Dec 2023
Accelerating Bharat's Digital Agenda is about addressing two critical divides -- the digital divide in meaningful access, and the development divide in the data paradigm
1. The access divides
India is rapidly digitalising but there is a risk of leaving Bharat behind. India had over 700 million active internet users as…
Missed Opportunities in the OECD Guidelines Tech-related Updates
Nov 2023
Increasing digitalisation has spawned a system-wide disruption resulting in a reorganisation of production on a global to local scale. This is evident in both traditional value chains and in newer forms of work organisation, like platform work, cloud work, microwork and other invisible, but significant, sectors. The…
Rights Concerns Ignored in Data Law
Nov 2023
While DPDPA 2023 is a big step, it requires changes to better safeguard worker rights.
Technological advancements, particularly in data-driven production processes, have expanded the scope of workplace regulation beyond individual privacy concerns to encompass data protections and economic justice within the paradigm…
Mother tongue first
Nov 2023
Imagine you joined a course without knowing that the instruction was in Russian. You would understand nothing. In a poignant scene from the Hindi movie, Taare Zameen Par, the parents of Ishaan, who is dyslexic, are asked to read Chinese and learn. They struggle and fail. This is what happens to thousands of Indian…
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