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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.

Between 2012-14, with support from International Development Research Centre (Canada), IT for Change carried out a multi-country action research project that aimed at leveraging the digital opportunity for strengthening marginalised women's active citizenship and their engagement with local governance, across three sites - in India, Brazil and South Africa.

IT for Change has consistently advocated for an equitable information society for the South, pointing to how ‘access’ presupposes rights that are not just civil-political, but also, socio-economic. We have therefore advocated for democratising the Internet, in our engagements with WSIS (2003-2005) and WSIS review processes.