Digital Justice, Now!
IT for Change, as part of the Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) invites you to endorse its Call to Action for WSIS+20 and Beyond.
In March 2025, the Trump Administration initiated a series of enquiries through the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on unfair and non-reciprocal trade practices in countries currently trading with the United States. The intent of the query is to slap tariffs on countries that are currently not permitting trade on terms that…
The Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) welcomes and commends the recent joint statement issued on 26 February by the Presidents of Chile, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay, titled ‘Commitment to Democracy and Global Governance’. This landmark declaration recognizes the urgent need for “joint actions to address inequality, disinformation and the malicious use of social…
This think piece was written by Anuradha Ganapathy as part of our ‘Re-wiring India's Digitalising Economy for Women's Rights and Well-being’ project, supported by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and the European Union.
The think piece employs a feminist commodity chain approach to examine disinformation in India and the Philippines, foregrounding…
IT for Change responded to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”) sub-committee’s Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development. Our comments largely addressed the need to address issues around generative AI, mitigating bias in AI training, and improving transparency.
Highlights from our feedback are as follows:
- It is necessary to…
The use of digital technologies in education (‘EdTech’) has created problems of centralization of control over educational processes, as well as privatization of education. The use of proprietary EdTech creates a dangerous vendor lock-in, in which teacher agency and institutional autonomy are compromised. This endangers the social…
Instead of flexi-work and increased labor participation for women, the platform economy has deepened intersectional inequalities—of gender, class, geography, and race—making women workers more vulnerable. At the Beijing+30 conjuncture, we urgently need multi-scalar policy responses that can get our institutions ready for a feminist future of work…
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All the Rightful Inheritors of the Classroom
Jun 2025
I wear a mask. Not like the crime-fighting vigilante Batman but like a self-conscious child at a fancy dress competition, trying to fit in. The mask becomes stark in June, Pride Month, which also marks the beginning of the school academic year. Over weekends, I plunge into community mobilisation and conversations on…
The Global Digital Compact – an “add and stir gender” déjà vu?
Nov 2024
The Global Digital Compact upholds “gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and their full, equal and meaningful participation” as a core principle for digital cooperation [para 8(d)]. The extraordinary complexity of our times, which the digital phenomenon has only intensified, requires us to unpack…
MSMEs and e-commerce adoption: Lessons from India
Nov 2024
Why do micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) struggle with using digital marketplaces such as Amazon or Facebook for their operations? How can we make digital marketplaces more advantageous for smaller players? In this blogpost, I reflect on some of the key findings of a study that I conducted titled “Beyond…
The Global Digital Compact is here: What now for civil society?
Oct 2024
On 22 September 2024, at the UN Summit of the Future, member states adopted the Global Digital Compact (GDC): a framework for multistakeholder digital cooperation at the global level that sets out objectives, principles, commitments and actions for “an inclusive, open, sustainable, fair, safe and secure digital future…
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