All projects
Just Net Coalition (JNC) is a global network of civil society actors committed to an open, free, just and equitable Internet. Founded in February 2014, the Coalition engages on topics of the Internet and its governance, for furthering democracy, human rights and social justice. IT for Change hosts the secretariat of the Coalition.
Between 2009-10, in partnership with Mahila Samakhya Karnataka, UNICEF and Sarva Shikshana Abhiyan, IT for Change’s field centre, Prakriye, implemented an ICT-enabled critical ‘education-for-empowerment’ programme for over 40-plus adolescent girls in rural Mysore. The programme used an innovative social constructivist pedagogy, that deployed video and photography-based learning methods.
Between 2005-2010, with support from UNDP, IT for Change worked towards strengthening the collective learning-action processes of over 200 marginalised rural women’s collectives of the Mahila Samakhya programme in Mysore district, Karnataka, India. The project used a three-pronged ICT strategy comprising community radio, community video and women-run community telecentres.
Between 2012-14, IT for Change’s field centre Prakriye partnered with Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan and ANANDI – grassroots women’s rights organisations in Gujarat – to build an ICT-enabled model for women’s political empowerment and gender-responsive local governance. This project was supported by UN Women Fund for Gender Equality.
Between 2015-2017, IT for Change actively engaged in a series of consultations convened by TRAI, on regulation of Over-the-Top services, differential pricing of data, and core principles of net neutrality in the Indian context. Our interventions called for Internet egalitarianism to be seen as the key value underpinning net neutrality – instead of free market principles or a narrow focus on just the right to free expression.
The Centre for Education and Technology, seeks to build participatory and emancipatory teacher education and school development models, in partnership with public education systems. Our field projects integrate digital technologies for creating and collaborating for learning. Our research focuses on collaborative OER models embedded in professional learning communities of teachers using free and open technologies.
IT for Change is part of the SIRCA III (2015-17) programme of the International Development Research Centre, Canada that seeks to develop cross-cutting theoretical frameworks and a research agenda in the emerging field of open development. Our contribution to the programme analyses the normative flux induced by technical ‘openness’, as development organisations adopt ICTs.