As an organisation located at the unique intersection of development justice and digital rights, IT for Change convenes forums that serve various purposes – promoting dialogue, exchanging knowledge, building research community, providing training, educating the wider community and sharpening advocacy frameworks.
IT for Change's Parminder Jeet Singh will be part of a webinar hosted by FES and Public Services International. The input will be provided by Parminder to present the key findings of the study titled, 'Economic Rights in a data-based society' .
Comments will be provided by Rosa Pavanelli, General Secretary of Public Services…
IT for Change's Anita Gurumurthy will be part of a webinar hosted by FES in Asia and WIDE. Titled 'The Digital Economy in Asia: Feminist Perspectives', the webinar will explore feminist perspectives on how the Fourth Industrial Revolution is impacting the present and future of women's work in Asian economies. In…
The panel included Justice (retd.) BN Shrikrishna, Parminder Jeet Singh, executive director of IT for Change, Ashutosh Chadha, vice president of public policy at MasterCard, Rama Vedashree, chief executive officer of Data Security Council of India (DSCI), and Bishakha Bhattacharya, Executive Government and Regulatory Affairs, IBM India. The…
The socialization of Artificial Intelligence and the reality of an intelligence economy marks an epochal moment. The impacts of AI are now systemic – restructuring economic organization and value chains, public sphere architectures and sociality. These shifts carry deep geopolitical implications, reinforcing historical exclusions and power…
IT for Change was present at the the Public Policy Forum & Public Policy LITFest organised by the SKOCH Group. Speaking at a panel titled 'Data Governance at Crossroads', Anita Gurumurthy pointed out that all discussions on data governance must start by recognising data as a 'resource ecosystem', rather than as a commodity. Data governance…
Pre-event organised by Just Net Coalition
Monday, November 25 | 14:20 - 18:15
Venue: Estrel Saal C
Speakers from IT for Change: Anita Gurumurthy, Parminder Jeet Singh
Pre-event co-organised by
FGV, ISOC,…
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Digital disruptions have rapidly led to the creation of enormous wealth, but it is highly concentrated around a small number of countries, companies and individuals. Meanwhile, they raise…
Yogesh K S will attend the State of the Map(SOTM) Asia 2019 conference being held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At the conference, he will talk on how to dive deep into OpenStreetMap data using Taginfo.
IT for Change and Indian Police Foundation, with support from UN Women and Web Foundation, organized a Strategy Meeting on a Systemic Response to Gender-based Cyberviolence, on 27 August 2019, in New Delhi at "We the People Hall", UN House, 55 – Lodhi Estate, New Delhi.
Today, gender-based cyberviolence is a veritable national crisis…
Yogesh presented a paper on ‘AI and Education’ at the National Seminar on 'Innovative Practices and Research in the era of DigiEducation' organised by Department of Education and Education Technology, Central University of Hyderabad (UoH).
While other presenters spoke about the potential benefits, Yogesh cautioned the participants on…
Nandini Chami from IT for Change attended a conference in Bali, Indonesia to kick off a new regional project by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) on the topic with the working title Women and the Future of Work in Asia .
The future of work will see wide-ranging changes for employers and workers, including automation, artificial intelligence…
Nandini Chami from IT for Change attended a conference in Bali, Indonesia to kick off a new regional project by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) on the topic with the working title Women and the Future of Work in Asia .
The future of work will see wide-ranging changes for employers and workers, including automation, artificial intelligence…
Are you planning to be at RightsCon this year? Join us at Tunis, and be part of shaping a future agenda for digital equity and social justice.
Just Net Coalition invites you to the workshop:
What do social movements need to do in the age of data…
Anita Gurumurthy will be a participant at a 'strategic futures' workshop organized by the Transnational Institute (TNI) to discuss some of the key challenges social movements will need to confront in the next decade.
Anita will be focusing on technological transformations, digital monopolies and surveillance.
Parminder Jeet Singh will be a discussant at the event titled “The Future of the WTO: Emerging Issues for Developing Countries” organized by the Third World Network and TWN Trust. The event aims to discuss the current situation at the WTO, the options faced by developing countries and in particular, India, and their emerging positions.
Nandini Chami will be a participant at the Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) organised by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). SIF is a platform for advancing a free, open, and secure Internet as a driver of development. It offers an arena for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and collaboration. The forum will explore the most…
Anita Gururmurthy spoke at the faculty workshop titled "Data for development: Mapping key considerations for policy and practice in India", which carried out an in-depth stocktaking of India's AI scenario. She focused on the following questions:
1. What is India’s current approach to data and AI technologies for development?
2.…
Anita Gurumurthy attended the event "At The Same Table" facilitated by the EdelGive Foundation. It is an engagement platform for free and frank discussion on issues and ideas that collectively concern the funding community. It is a two-hour convening bringing together the funding fraternity in philanthropy - companies doing strategic CSR,…
Deepti Bharthur attended a roundtable event on Social Media and Democracy on 22nd March. The event was organised by CIS in collaboration with Social Science One, and the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age. The conference was on social media and democracy, with particular attention to the Global South, especially…
Ira Anjali Anwar and Meenakshi Yadav attended a policy lab on AI & Democracy, organised by Tandem Research in partnership with Microsoft Research and FES. It considered the ways in which AI and data-driven decision making are shaping ideals and practices of democracy in India, with a view towards identifying the relevant research and policy…
Anita Gurumurthy was a panelist at an international conference organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) to reflect on “Feminist Visions for the Future of Work” with experts from trade unions, social movements and progressive feminist academics from Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The goal was to enrich the debates…
Parminder Jeet Singh will be a panelist at the session "Data Law in China and India" at the Global Data Law Conference which will be held on April 26-27, 2019 at NYU School of Law.
He'll be reflecting on India's data laws in the context of the broader e-commerce policy.
He'll also be a part of the discussion on "Developing Digital…
Nandini Chami was a panelist at the session: 'Towards an empowerment scorecard for women in e-commerce' during UNCTAD e-Commerce week in Geneva, Switzerland.
The pane deliberated on the following questions:
To what extent has the global digital economy and the current e-commerce regime been successful in furthering women’s…
Anita Gurumurthy was a speaker at International Conference on Universal Social Protection and Labour where she talked about 'Livelihood futures in the digital economy'. See her presentation here.
Just Net Coalition and its partners are organising a three day workshop on Equity and social justice in a digital world – An inter sectoral/movements dialogue for a digital justice agenda from 25-27 March, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop is aimed at shaping progressive and Southern agendas for the digital society and economy. Read more…
IT for Change is holding a session on public data sets by Dr. Rajendran Narayanan, professor, Azim Premji University. Dr. Narayanan has extensive experience working with public data sets especially on designing and developing bottom up Janatha information systems and his work on MGNREGA is also well known. The session will be delivered in…
Parminder Jeet Singh from IT for Change is speaking at International Asia Conference 2019 on 'Data Sovereignty vs. Free Data: A Debate on Data Localization'.
Gurumurthy Kasinathan from IT for Change is speaking at the National Conference at RIESI on "Technology and English Language Teaching".
Amrita Vasudevan from IT for Change is attending FORE International Conference on Digital Innovation as a plenary speaker. The conference aims to provide collaborative platform for researchers and experts to discuss the impact of digital technologies for creating safer cities in India.
Anita Gurumurthy is delivering a valedictory keynote at India HCI Conference 2018 on "Seeing beyond the screen - reflections on crafting technology for the art of change". The conference is organised by Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
Watch the presentation here.
Gurumurthy Kasinathan from IT for Change was a speaker at Kerala Education Conference on "Education in the age of Technology".
This education festival was conducted by Kerala School Teachers Association (KSTA) – the progressive and largest teachers association of Kerala to discuss the political, social, cultural and academic aspects and…
Vijaya Teachers College and Centre for Education and Technology, IT for Change are launching a blended course for B.Ed students of Vijaya Teachers College on “ICT integrated learning”.
This course, developed by IT for Change, is based on the National ICT Curriculum of Central Institute of Education Technology, National Council of…
Parminder Jeet Singh is a panelist at 23rd All India Children's Educational Audio Video & ICT Mela organised by Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). The theme of the panel is "Technology and Learning: The Road Ahead" where he will speak on open educational…
DAY 1 19 November 2018
Introduction to the workshop 10.00 am – 10.30 am
1. Objectives of the refresher workshop of 1st semester course
2. Students expectations from this workshop
3. Students feedback about the course 4. Take them through the courses on moodle
Personal…
The Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) of Ramanujan College, University of Delhi is organizing an Induction Training Programme for young college and university teachers. The Teaching Learning Centre has been initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under its scheme Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National…
Yogesh KS from IT for Change attended the State of the Map (SotM) annual conference of OpenStreetMap (OSM) held this year at IIM Bangalore. The conference brought together participants and contributors from around the Asian countries to discuss challenges, learn, and celebrate mapping together on OSM.
E-commerce remains a small share of the overall retail in India, and any policy covering it will govern this fledgling ecosystem for at least a decade at a moment where its exponential growth has just started kicking in. The draft policy, albeit withdrawn, has raised concerns across a spectrum of issues, like FDI, privacy, protectionism, etc.,…
The Justice Srikrishna Committee has released a draft data protection law for India, and we will be discussing the issues related to the draft bill, looking at the following issues amongst others,
Issues related to data sovereignty, localisation, mirroring and cross border data flows. Impact on consent, data collection, storage and…
The thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be in Paris, France from 12 to 14 November 2018 on the theme, Internet of Trust.
Join us at the following sessions -
1. Agenda setting session
Internet Rights and Principles: Sustainable Futures: The Internet, Human Rights, and Environmental Issues…
The Digital Development Forum 2018 was organised by the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines from 4 - 5 September, 2018 where Anita Gurumurthy represented IT for Change and made a presentation on the topic 'Are women benefiting equally from the digital economy?'
The digital economy can be a game-changer for gender equality, especially in developing country contexts. But this potential can be unlocked only if the policy roadmap focuses on women’s meaningful inclusion in the digital marketplace and on creating ‘high value’ opportunities through digital innovations in key economic domains. The session…
Digital platforms are rewiring the global economy, fundamentally shifting how we socialize, work, buy, sell and consume. Being organized globally, most of these platforms directly impinge on global trade, and vice versa. The proposed session will address the multiple policy challenges that platforms, and global trade around them, present for…
ITfC conducted a workshop on ICT and Education for the Head Masters of schools run by Kristu Jayanti college and other private institutions, from across the country. Head Masters from around 100 schools across India participated, and the digital tools and the digital methods used in our work was a revelation for all of them. Some of them are in…
The millennial euphoria about feminist emancipation in a digitally mediated new world is faced with a more sobering reality. While new possibilities for community and solidarity, voice and self expression, have certainly opened up, this is not a simplistic narrative of empowerment and change. Digital artifacts and spaces are no exception to…
Between 16-20 April 2018, UNCTAD organised the 2018 edition of the e-commerce week. This year's theme was “Development Dimensions of Digital Platforms'. Anita Gurumurthy was invited to be a speaker at the session on ‘E-commerce, digital industrialization, and micro, small and medium enterprises'.
The Conference on ‘Digital Trade in Africa: Implications for inclusion and human rights’ was organised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 31 May-1 June 2018. Nandini Chami represented IT for Change and made a presentation on the topic ‘Ensuring women’s meaningful inclusion in the digital economy: Some reflections.’ The presentation can be found here…
Platforms are to the network age what the factory was to the industrial revolution. As with all times of paradigmatic change, public policy making in the domain must evolve to effectively meet the needs of the times. With support from International Development Research Council (IDRC), IT for Change’s global project ‘…
UNCTAD are organizing a brainstorming meeting for UNCTAD Information Economy Report 2019, which is to focus on "Capturing Value in the Digital Economy in Developing Countries".
The meeting will take place in Geneva, on Thursday, 31 May, and Friday, 1 June 2018. Parminder Jeet Singh from IT for Change will participate in the session. …
IT for Change is conducting a district level workshop for MIS coordinators in Hyderabad from 15 - 19 May 2018.
For more details, click here.
Annual Flagship Confluence of Ideas and Thought Leadership being jointly hosted by BPR&D and the Indian Police Foundation on 16&17 May 2018, at the BPR&D Conference Hall, New Delhi. The theme for this year’s conference is : A STRATEGIC DIRECTION FOR POLICING IN THE DIGITAL AGE.
COPPS 2018 seeks to bring to the fore-front,…
The 2018 United Nations Public Service Forum will take place in Marrakesh, in the Kingdom of Morocco from 21-23 June 2018, with the theme of “Transforming governance to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”.
Anita Gurumurthy will speak on 'ICT and Inequality – What sustainable strategies to close the Digital Divide
by…
Session on 'ICT and Education' in a workshop for 100 principals from high schools and higher secondary schools/colleges at Kristu Jayanti College on 4 May 2018.
Workshop Objectives: Understanding possibilities of integrating ICT in education Orientation on concept mapping Orientation on how to create text resources (LibreOffice writer)…
iCED is holding a National Training Programme on "Audit of Universalization of Education" from 14 May to 18 May 2018 for officers of Indian Audit & Accounts Department.
It is a 5-day programme, aiming at capacity building of participants on issues relating to School Education in India, Right to Education, Inclusion and Equity,…
The Teaching Learning Centre of Ramanujan College organized one month Induction Training Programme for young college and university teachers from 9th April-5th May, 2018. ITfC will conduct sessions on 16th April on "ICT: effective use of technology for teaching, learning and evaluation".
Workshop objectives Learning how to use ICT to…
The Government of India would host the Third Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at Mumbai in June 2018. In this regard, RIS is closely working with the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance, as the Knowledge Partner to organize eight thematic lead-up events and a…
RightsCon Toronto 2018 is the seventh event in the RightsCon Summit Series. As the world’s leading conference on human rights in the digital age, it brings together business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, government representatives, technologists, and human rights defenders from around the world to tackle pressing issues at the…
UNCTAD's E-Commerce Week, now in its fourth edition, is today the leading forum for Ministers, senior government officials, CEOs and other business representatives, international organizations, development banks, academics and civil society to discuss the development opportunities and challenges associated with the evolving digital economy.…
The DIODE network will be holding a two-day workshop in Manchester, UK on 11-12 April 2018. It will consist of:
A workshop of presentations on “Development Implications of Digital Economies: Findings and Next Steps” An action workshop finalising research priorities on digital economies in developing countries An action workshop developing…
ITfC designed and conducted a workshop for Trained Graduate Teachers at Vijaya Teacher's college from 2nd to 4th April 2018.
In the workshop, the teachers learnt to use different different digital methods for supporting self-learning, peer learning and collaborative learning. They also practised the integration of ICT for resource…
Anita Gurumurthy was a speaker at Workshop on Unpacking Participatory Democracy: From Theory to Practice and From Practice to Theory organised by ISID, McGill University, IMG and TISS. She presented in the Breakaway Session 4B: Digital Technology/Demystifying Technology.
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Anita Gurumurthy attended the DIODE Network’s workshop at the Green Templeton College, Oxford, UK, between 9-10 October 2017. At the workshop, she made a presentation on data in digital trade debates, using the RCEP negotiations as an exemplar.
Anita Gurumurthy was invited to deliver a lecture at the Women and Work dialogue convened by Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2018.
Anita Gurumurthy was invited to speak on the theme 'Common Property Resources and Women' on Day 2 of the International Conference on Labouring Women: Some Major Concerns at the Current Juncture organised by Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, with support from UN Women.
Anita Gurumurthy was invited to hold a session on media, knowledge and development by the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi to the Round Table Conference organised as part of their ICSSR research programme on Knowledge, Development and Politics in Post-Colonial India: Contestations in State, Market and Civil Society.
ITfC designed and conducted the second workshop for Bengaluru Teacher Education Colleges faculty (B.Ed. program) from 24 - 28.
In the workshop, teacher educators from six colleges of teacher education in Bengaluru, learnt to use the Learning Management System Moodle as students and as faculty. They learnt to use the spreadsheet…
The second session of the Multi-year Expert Meeting on Enhancing the Enabling Economic Environment at All Levels in Support of Inclusive and Sustainable Development, and the Promotion of Economic Integration and Cooperation, is invited to discuss how the diffusion of digital technologies shifts the…
We participated in the sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (March 2018). The themes of CSW 62 were as follows:
Priority theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls;
Review theme: Participation in and access of women to the media, and…
A two hour curated mixer to be held in three cities: Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. MASH Project has collaborated with India Fellow to bring awareness about the India Fellow Program to graduates and graduating students. This mixer aims at introducing potential fellows to career opportunities in the field of social entrepreneurship. Speakers…
The Gender Policy Study Unit of the Centre for Policy Studies, together with H&SS Department is organising a half day workshop on 8th March, the International Women’s day in the afternoon; 3.00 to 6.00 pm, at Room 31 VMCC as part of its Policy Discourse series.The theme of the workshop is “Policy making: Gender…
Rashtreeya Sikshana Samithi Trust, Sivananda Sarma Memorial Rv College, Jayanagar Bangalore, Bangalore University and Centre For Educational And Social Studies (Cess) are organising a one day seminar on Quality Assurance In Higher Education.
Gurumurthy Kasinathan from IT for Change will be a discussant in the Session 3: Technology for…
The Teaching Learning Centre of Ramanujan College organized a seven day Faculty Development Programme on “Skill based Teacher’s Training in ICT, IPR and Research” to enhance the skill set of the teaching fraternity from 5 March 2018 to 11 March 2018. IT for Change conducted sessions on 9 and 10 March on ICT integration in education.
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The Tata Institute of Social Sciences is organising a 'Collaborative Knowledge Building: Interrogating Processes and Patterns' workshop to be held at the Mumbai campus from 26th-27th February. The workshop will hold 16 paper presentations under the following sub-themes:
Interrogating the Collective Knowledge Building Process Diverse…
This workshop on Digital Rights in Asia is being organised as part of a Sydney Research Excellence Initiative (SREI)-funded project on Digital Rights in Australia and Asia. It will include 20-30 participants, drawn from universities, policy agencies, NGOs, and industry, to explore, identify and discuss the key issues…
Parminder Jeet Singh from IT for Change will be participating in the workshop - 'Digital Trade and Industrialization: Perspectives from the South' organised by Department of Commerce (Government of Sri Lanka) and UNCTAD in partnership with Sri Lanka Export Credit and Insurance Corporation and Centre for WTO Studies.…
On 17 February 2018, Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay, organised the Annual Policy Dialogue on the Information Economy (IE). The dialogue sought to deliberate upon new research agendas on the information economy, in the current age of pervasive digitalisation and datafication. Anita Gurumurthy and Parminder Jeet…
The Global Development Network is organising its 18th Global Development Conference, titled 'Science, Technology and Innovation for Development,' in New Delhi, between 22-23 March, 2018. The conference is intended to be a forum where global actors from governments, research, private sector and civil society can share…
Parminder Jeet Singh will be facilitating the session ‘E-commerce – state of play and outlining key issues’ at the meeting- ‘Brainstorming on WTO in the post-MC11 phase'. This meeting is organised by Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India in partnership with Centre…
Yogesh K S attended the Swatantra 2017, sixth international free software conference which was held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India during 20-21 December 2017 organized by the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), an autonomous organization set up by the Government of Kerala, India for the propagation of FOSS. At…
Parminder Jeet Singh from IT for Change will be a keynote speaker at this meeting. The key questions that Parminder will respond to at this session will include:
As a global community, we need to decide on how data flows should be handled. Some have called data the ‘new oil’. Should it be given away freely? What are the different…
Karnataka Election Watch (KEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) are organising the 14th Annual National Conference on Electoral and Political Reforms on 10 March 2018. Anita Gurumurthy from IT for Change is a panelist at the session on 'Information & Communication Technology for Better Governance.'
Anti-FTA Committee along with Kerala State Swathantra Matsya Thozhilali Federation, Farm Care Foundation, Voters Alliance is organizing a workshop on Ministerial Conference 11 @ Buenos Aires (Argentina): effect on Indian Agriculture, Fisheries, Small Trade and Industries, Critical analysis and way ahead on 12th February 2018 @ YMCA Hall,…
Public Software Centre (IT for Change) is pleased to announce a “Website Content Management and Administration Programme for NGOs using Drupal”. Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) distributed under the GNU General Public License, which enables it to be freely shared and customised.
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UN Solution Exchange - Karnataka Community and Public Software Centre, IT for Change are organising 'Capacity Building Workshop for Knowledge Management and Knowledge Networking' on 17, 18 and 19 January, 2011 in VLEAD, Mysore.
The workshops aim at helping institutions learn Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) applications. A CD…
UN Solution Exchange - Karnataka Community* and Public Software Centre, IT for Change** organised the Capacity Building Workshop for Knowledge Management and Knowledge Networking with support from UNICEF, on the 16th ,17th and 18th December 2010 at Indian Institute of Science,…
Achieving significant impact in moving towards fulfilling SDG4 requires significant effort, resources and international collaboration. IDRC together with the Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development (FIT-ED) and The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) will host an international meeting…
Against this backdrop, DPADM/DESA, through its Project Office on Governance (UNPOG), in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Korea, will organize a Symposium from 5 to 8 December 2017 on “Building Effective, Accountable and Inclusive Institutions and Public Administration for Advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
IT for Change, Bengaluru, and Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, are organising a National Dialogue on Gender-based Cyber Violence, with support from the Women's Rights Online programme of the Web Foundation.
The issue calls for urgent dialogue and deliberation. Reports about technology-…
IT for Change, supported by Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the World Wide Web Foundation (WWW), organised a workshop on ‘What are people’s rights in the Digital World? - Moving towards a digital social contract’ (4th-5th December, Bengaluru). The aim of this workshop was to bring together experts and thought leaders around…
The annual conference of the Majlis Legal Centre - Negotiating Spaces - chose to analyse the various facets, impacts and internal contradictions of on-line spaces, through a gender lens. Anita made a presentation on ‘What's happening today to women's rights and citizenship?’, focusing on the network- data complex and its…
A pre-consultation meeting was organised in Bangalore in January 2017 to review our discussion paper, 'Technology-mediated Violence against Women in India: How can we strengthen existing legal-institutional response mechanisms?'. A group of feminist scholars and practitioners came together at this meeting to debate the questions raised by this…
IT for Change presented key findings from the Voice or Chatter research project on July 5, 2017 at a webinar organised by Global Partnership for Social Accountability Knowledge Platform. A session recording is available here.
Parminder Jeet Singh was invited by the Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay to deliver a talk on 'Digital Data - The New Raw Material in the Globalising Economy' as part of the Development Discourse Series. In the talk, Parminder unpacks data collection, use, and regulation from a political economy perspective; and also delves into the…
Amrita Vasudevan spoke at a panel at the Digital Citizen Summit, 2017 on 22nd September 2017. The panel reflected on “Regulating search engines: Competition, free speech and human rights”.
Yogesh K S attended the State of the Map(SOTM) Asia conference held in September 2017 in Kathmandu, Nepal. At the conference, he gave a lightning talk about different methodologies of adding local language map data on the OpenStreetMap platform. Listen to the talk here and get the slides here.
The twelfth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 18 to 21 December 2017, on the theme, Shape Your Digital Future!
Join us at the following sessions -
1. Empowering global cooperation on cybersecurity for sustainable development & peace
IGF…
The conference provided an opportunity for exchanges of national and international initiatives and experience on ICT in school education, spreading information, and making suitable recommendations for policy planners, academic and administrative staff. The conference focused on a) Exploring innovative use of ICT is teaching-learning-assessment…
The National Gender Centre (NGC), Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie, in partnership with UN Women had undertaken a project to strengthen institutional capacities on Gender Responsive Governance (GRG). The project is aimed to strengthen capacities of national and sub national…
As the Eleventh Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Argentina draws near, it is important to create awareness among broad constituencies in India about the issues on the table, especially the challenges facing developing countries. We need to jointly learn about the linkages between these…
IT for Change's Executive Director Anita Gurumurthy is speaking at an online seminar titled 'Women, Leadership and Sustainability in Critical Times'. This is a joint initiative of the University of Padova Centre for Gender Studies ‘Elena Cornaro’ and the Department of Politics Law and International Studies: the first in a series of meetings…
IT for Change's Nandini Chami is one of the speakers at the webinar on 'Trading Away Women’s Rights: How Free Trade has Undermined Women’s Human Rights Before & During This Time of Pandemic'. The event will focus on the ways in which the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has further exarcerbated the undermining of the rights outlined in the…
IT for Change's Executive Director Parminder Jeet Singh will be part of this roundtable discussion intended to explore the challenges of automated decisions made within governmental setups, and how to tactically use and strategically employ existing legal standards mechanisms as means of accountability for such systems. It will bring together…
