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The Centre for Education and Technology works with schools and public education systems on developing Education Leadership and Management capacities at individual and institutional levels, by integrating digital technologies for strengthening academic and administrative processes.
IT for Change ‘s research and policy advocacy efforts have focused on leveraging the e-government opportunity for gender-transformative change. We have zeroed in on specific recommendations for institutionalising gender perspectives in the development of e-service delivery, ICT-mediated citizen engagement, and connectivity architectures.
Connectivity does not automatically guarantee women’s meaningful inclusion into the benefits of the digital economy and society. Exploring policy and programmatic pathways to build access cultures that promote women’s informational, associational and communicative capabilities has been a longstanding preoccupation of IT for Change’s research and policy advocacy.
IT for Change ‘s research and policy advocacy efforts have focused on identifying the new opportunities and challenges for women’s empowerment and gender equality in the information society context. Our approach brings together political economy with ethnography, for a politically and historically grounded framework on policy change.
IT for Change is engaged in policy research and advocacy that highlights the policy positions that developing countries should adopt in global Internet governance debates, to protect the interests of their citizens in the emerging digital order.
The Centre for Education and Technology works on a broad range of research, policy advocacy, network building and field projects projects in the area of ICT and Education, with the aim of building participatory and emancipatory teacher education and school development models.
The Centre for Education and Technology engages with Departments of Technical Education (DTE) to help them adopt FOSS educational applications, to make digital technologies more accessible to the learners. Adopting FOSS in higher education has the potential to improve livelihood possibilities, provide a sophisticated and current technology environment.
Our practice and our research on participatory and emancipatory teacher education and school development models inform our inputs to national and state curriculum programs. The Centre for Education and Technology has been invited to contribute to the curriculum, syllabi and text book projects of Karnataka, Telangana and NCERT.
To push the boundaries of Southern scholarship on the information society and ICTD domains, IT for Change undertook the ‘Information Society for the South’ research programme (2005-10). With support from the International Development Research Centre (Canada), a series of research papers and policy briefs exploring information society issues from a political economy perspective were produced.