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In September 2014, IT for Change organised a short course to help women’s rights practitioners and gender studies scholars appreciate new issues/challenges emerging for gender equality in digital times. The course focused on three main aspects: (a) Recasting women's rights in the age of networks, (b) Understanding data-centred governance systems, and (c) Harnessing the digital opportunity for women's empowerment.
IT for Change has been engaged in policy advocacy for ICTs, in line with the demands for accountable governance and community participation envisaged by social movements on the Right to Information in India.
The Centre for Education and Technology works on participatory and emancipatory teacher education, in partnership with teacher education institutions. Our field projects focus on teacher educator professional development integrating digital technologies for connecting, creating, collaborating and learning.
The Centre for Education and Technology works on participatory and emancipatory teacher education and school development models, in partnership with public education systems. Our field projects focus on teacher professional development by integrating digital technologies for connecting, creating, collaborating for learning, at school, district and state levels.
The Centre for Education and Technology works at school levels, to integrate digital technologies for classroom teaching, teacher professional development and school institution building. The Teachers’ Communities of Learning, networks teachers in these schools to build block wide networks of seeking and sharing of ideas, experiences and resources.
The Centre for Education and Technology works on participatory and emancipatory teacher education, in partnership with teacher education institutions. Our practice and our research inform the blended courses we offer with academic institutions, for teachers and teacher educators.
IT for Change led a multi-country research study on mapping the conditions under which ICT mediated citizen engagement can transform democracy, with support from the Making All Voices Count consortium. Together with a state-of-art-analysis of the policy context, a case study of one micro-level initiative of digitalised citizen participation was carried out in nine countries across Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.
In 2014, the World Wide Web Foundation (WWW) in collaboration with SIDA launched 'ICTs for Empowerment of Women and Girls', a 12-month research and policy advocacy initiative with the vision of empowering women in and through the Internet, across ten countries in Africa, Asia and South America. IT for Change contributed to framework development and provided inputs to the background report of the study.