IT for Change participated and made a contribution to the sixth session of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on E-commerce and the Digital Economy meeting conducted by UNCTAD from 10-12 May 2023.

The following were the substantive agenda items for the session:

Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to take part in UN Trade Forum 2023, organized by UNCTAD on 8-9 May 2023. The Forum will be held in a hybrid format and those interested can tune in to the various sessions virtually.

Anita will be taking part in a session titled, ‘Gender gaps and digital solutions - Launch of UNCTAD Policy Review: E-…

On 8 May 2023, taking part in their third consultation on the Global Digital Compact, Viraj Desai shared a few comments on human rights in the digital sphere, on behalf of IT for Change.

The digital paradigm not only reflects, but also amplifies intersectional exclusion and discrimination based on social locations, such as class, race,…

The eighth annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum) will be held from 3 to 4 May 2023, organized by the UN interagency task team on STI for the SDGs (IATT), convened by UN-DESA and UNCTAD, and the 10-Member Group of high-level representatives appointed by the Secretary-…

Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to speak at the webinar: ‘Data on Purpose 2023: “Making Tech Work for Workers”’ on 2 May 2023 at 9 PM IST, organized by the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Ford Foundation.

Generative AI. Big Data. Algorithmic Management. Robotics. Technologies currently being developed and deployed will change—…

IT for Change hosted a roundtable on the proposed Digital India Act (DIA) with IPCIDE and NASSCOM on April 28, in New Delhi. The aim of the roundtable was to bring together views and perspectives from a diverse set of representatives across civil society, industry, policy practitioners, and academics.

You can find the Program agenda…

Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to take part in a panel discussion on ‘Digital Health: Addressing the Interface of Development, Human Rights and Data Governance’, during the upcoming UN World Data Forum. The event will be co-organized by the South Centre and the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Rights (Idec) on 25 April 2023 at 12.30 PM IST…

Amay Korjan represented IT for Change at the Global Digital Compact's ‘Deep Dive Consultation on Internet Governance’ on 13 April 2023.

This session focused on answering the following questions:

Anita Gurumurthy was invited to take part in a high-level panel session to review the progress made on the implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) at the 26th UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD). The session was held on 29 March 2023 in Geneva.

CSTD…

The COVID-19 pandemic affected the progress of SDG4, but it led to advancements in online education technology. Education should be inclusive, learner-centered, affordable, and reach the last mile, while respecting cultural diversity and local languages.

To discuss about Quality Education and how Digital Transformations around the world…

Our Advocacy Associate, Viraj Samir Desai represented IT for Change during a consult for the Global Digital Compact on 27 March 2023.

The consultation sessions aim to share knowledge and views, as well as allow for contributions on a wide range of digital issues. At this consult, representing IT for Change, Viraj spoke on ‘Digital…

Multinational corporations have grown wealthy by monopolizing the resources we need to live a dignified life – whether it’s the food we eat, the medicines we need to treat ourselves, or the technology which increasingly underlies our day-to-day lives.

These leviathans set the rules of the game, forcing countries to compete with each…

R. Vaishno Bharati and Avantika Tewari presented a paper titled, ‘Beyond Bringing Bodies into the Algorithm: A Study of Menstruapps’ at the 'Algorithms for Her? 2' conference organized by the University of Sheffield, UK. The conference was held at the Millennium Gallery between 23-24 March 2023.

Vaishno and Avantika presented the…

Anita Gurumurthy spoke at a panel discussion on 'Making Digital Liveable: The Social Economy and the Digital Age' at the OECD Social Economy Summit on 21 March 2023.

IT for Change is excited to host and participate in a diverse lineup of sessions during the CSW67 from 5-14 March 2023 in New York. Find below a detailed list of our sessions and register here to join us at the event this year.

Sunday, 5 March

Conversation with the Head of UN Women and Co-chair of CSW67

Organizers: NGO CSW…

IT for Change is hosting and participating in an exciting line up of sessions in this year's LDC5 Conference and the Civil Society Forum from 4 to 9 March, 2023.

Click on this link to find the complete list of our sessions.

Our Executive Director Anita Gurumurthy is invited to speak at the opening plenary of the introductory…

Anuradha Ganapathy and Malavika Rajkumar are invited to speak at International Co-operative Alliance's (Asia and Pacific) virtual lecture on 7 March 2023 for International Women's Day. The talk is titled 'DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality'.

The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023 (IWD 2023) is, '…

Shreya Bali has been invited to speak at the virtual conference, ‘Corporate Charcha 2023’, organized by Symbiosis Center for Information Technology on 26 February 2023 at 10 AM IST. Shreya will be speaking on the topic, ‘Datafication: A New Paradigm Spanning the World’.

The conference aims to provide a platform for experts in the field…

Anand Desai has been invited to speak at a webinar on ‘Enabling Technology For Social Impact’, organized by Civil20 on 23 February 2023 at 9.30 AM IST.

This webinar aims to bring together experts who will share their deep insights on the risks, opportunities, and challenges for policy development that enables accessibility and…

Anita Gurumurthy took part in a 'Conference on Agriculture, Land and Forests’, held by Focus on the Global South from 18-19 February 2023 in New Delhi.

The conference aimed to focus on the following key issues:

As the UN CSW67 conference draws closer, Nandini Chami was invited by the Despise Girls to join them on their YouTube show, ‘Lets Talk Economic Justice’. The episode was broadcast live on 16 February 2023. Nandini spoke on a variety of topics ranging from the macro understanding of digitalization to CSW67.

Watch the recording here.

Anita Gurumurthy took part in the ‘Expert Group Meeting on SDG 11’, conducted from 8-9 February 2023. The meeting was organized by the Division for Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA/DSDG), United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the United Nations Development…

Nandini Chami took part in the ‘Asia Pacific Regional CSO Forum on the Priority theme of CSW67’, organized by APWLD on 6 February 2023.

Over 70+ participants from across the world took part in the event, as they shared issues affecting women and girls in their countries relevant to CSW67. Emerging issues identified included digital…

IT for Change will be hosting a five-day residential institute on Frontiers and Frames for a New Digitality in Chiang Mai, Thailand, beginning on 30 January 2023. The institute aims to capacitate civil society actors with the necessary vocabulary and tools to appropriately frame and approach emerging digital intersections with their work, as…

Our Advocacy Associate Viraj Samir Desai represented IT for Change during a consult for the Global Digital Compact on 3 February 2023.

Following the political declaration adopted at the occasion of the United Nations’ 75th anniversary in September 2020, the Secretary-General in September 2021 released a Common Agenda report. The Common…

Parminder Jeet Singh was invited to take part in the workshop, ‘Will UK-India trade deal hinder sustainable development?’ organized by Bond and the Trade Justice Movement on 1 February 2023.

One of the touted benefits of the UK’s exit from the European Union is its ability to strike trade deals independently of the EU. The UK has since…

Shreeja Sen will be taking part in OECD Watch’s ‘2023 Global Gathering’, organized from 30 January-1 February 2023. The workshop aims to discuss the role of the OECD, OECD Guidelines, and OECD Watch in the changing corporate accountability landscape. The workshop will introduce in detail aspects of the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Entities…

Parminder Jeet Singh has been invited to take part in a panel discussion, ‘The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF): What is in store for partner countries and India?’ on 27 January at 4.30 PM IST. The event is being held by TWN Trust India and Third World Network.

The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) is a major initiative…

Parminder Jeet Singh participated in a workshop on ‘Enabling Data Sharing Ecosystem: Challenges and Expectations from Data Management Office (DMO)’ on 18 January 2023. The workshop was organized by Wadhwani Foundation and Chase India in New Delhi.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) released the draft 'India…

Malavika Rajkumar was invited to take part in a panel discussion on ‘Challenging Big Tech’ at the Asia-Pacific Digital Rights Forum on 13 January.

The Internet today is largely controlled by a hegemony of giant technology companies that control so much of people’s online lives, but largely escape regulation and accountability for the…

IT for Change, in collaboration with TISS, Oxfam India, and the National Coalition on Education Emergency, will be organizing a webinar discussing, ‘Is EdTech a Danger to Education?’ The webinar will be held on 23 December at 11 AM IST.

The education sector has been experiencing a ‘digital push’ for a while now, but this has accelerated…

Anita Gurumurthy was invited to chair a panel discussion on Public Spaces as the Primary Terrain of Contestation with Digital Emerging as Counter/Parallel Public organized by Krea University. This discussion was part…

Parminder Jeet Singh has been invited to participate in a webinar being organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of its ‘Commercial Determinants of Health’ webinar series on 16 December at 7.30 PM IST.

This is the third webinar being conducted as part of the series, and it will explore the impact of the digital and…

IT for Change, in collaboration with Research ICT Africa (RIA) and Freidrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES), hosted a workshop on ‘Feminist Digital Economy’ on 13-14 December 2022.

The workshop was organized with the aim to collect region-specific input for the 2023 UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67). It focused on sub-Saharan Africa and…

Deepti Bharthur participated in the ‘2022 Study Week on Macroeconomic, Trade, Investment and Development Policies’ organized by the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, and Third World Network. The event was held from 12-16 December 2022.

The objectives of the study week were as…

Anita Gurumurthy was invited to participate in a panel discussion Data for Development: Role of G20 in Advancing the 2030 Agenda on 13 December. The event was hosted by India’s G20 Secretariat in collaboration with…

Parminder Jeet Singh was invited to take part in a panel to discuss ‘If Sharing is Caring, How Can Policymakers Incentivize Data Sharing? The EU and India Have Some Ideas’. The discussion was organized by Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub on 6 December at 10 AM EST/8.30 PM IST.

Researchers have shown that increased data sharing could…

Parminder Jeet Singh has been invited to take part in a virtual learning call on the Digital Data Protection Bill, 2022. The event will be organized by SFLC.in on 6 December at 6.30 PM IST. The bill is currently open for public consultation and comments till 17 December. The discussion is being organized with the aim to better understand the…

Gurumurthy Kasinathan has been invited to take part in Digital Delhi Conclave, 2022 being organized by IIIT-Delhi on 3 December. The conclave will be held at the university’s campus and will begin at 9.30 AM IST. This year’s theme for the conclave is ‘Quality and Equitable Education’. In particular, speakers will explore how digital…

Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to speak at a panel during the Our Future is Public Conference. The conference will be held from 29 November-2 December in Santiago, Chile. The conference aims to provide an opportunity to raise public consciousness and strengthen collaboration between actors and movements to develop joint strategies.

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Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to take part in a working session discussing ‘How can data justice be realised practically?’ at Internet Governance Forum 2022. The session will be conducted on 2 December at 4.15 PM IST.

This roundtable will form part of an ongoing research-to-policy influence process which is mapping out and developing…

Gurumurthy Kasinathan has been invited to speak on ‘EdTech and its Implications for Public Education’ at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University (AUD), Delhi. The event is being conducted as part of the University’s School of Education Studies’ ‘Seminar Series’ on 2 December at 2 PM IST.

The session will be moderated by Krishna Kalyan Dixit, AUD.…

Deepti Bharthur took part in a panel discussion on ‘Silicon Valley and the Global South’ organized by the Berkley Student Forum on 1 December 2022.

New technologies, businesses, and leaders coming out of Silicon Valley have been revolutionizing ways of life globally. Capable of reaching the world’s most vulnerable populations in the…

Anita Gurumurthy will be participating in a panel discussion on 'Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights' organized by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in Bengaluru on 30 November. The event will be held at Bangalore International Centre at 6 PM IST.

The discussion is a part of a project at NLSIU, supported by the…

IT for Change is co-organizing a webinar on  "Exploring the Education Technology Landscape". The main speaker for the event is Prof. Rajaram Sharma, Former Joint Director, CIET, NCERT, and his talk will be followed by discussions on ICT & education. The webinar will be useful to broaden the understanding of teachers, teacher educators,…

Over 80 trade unions, environmentalists, tax watchdogs, and worker-rights groups organized about 120 strikes, worker actions, and protests in across 30 countries from 21-25 November as part of the Make Amazon Pay campaign. The protests ranged across Poland, Germany, Japan, the United States, South Africa, and India. Further, Amazon warehouse…

IT for Change will be hosting the State of Big Tech Dialogue, an online panel discussion to mark the launch of our upcoming report, ‘State of Big Tech: Dismantling Digital Enclosures’ on 21 November from 7:00-9:00 PM IST/2:30-4:30 PM CET.

To build strategies to respond to the aggrandizement of Big Tech power, our report moves past the…

Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to take part in a panel discussion organized by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women/New York (NGO CSW/NY) on November 17 at 6.30 pm IST. The discussion will focus on the impact of digitalization, innovation, and technological change on the lives of women and girls.

The event is being organized as…

Anita Gurumurthy will be taking part in the conference ‘Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South’ hosted by Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Institute for Technology and Society. The conference will be held from November 4-6 in Brazil. The event aims to address one specific question: How have…

Anuradha Ganapathy has been invited to take part in a panel discussion on ‘Gender Digital Divide – Impact on Societies and Democracy’ organized by UNDP, India on October 31 at 3 PM IST.

The panel will discuss the emerging signals, insights, and good practices on bridging the gender digital divide and its implication on democracy. In…

Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to moderate a panel discussion titled ‘Boon, Bane, or Bust: Can our Planet Survive Tech?’ organized by ORF on 28 October at 12.30 pm IST. The discussion is being organized as part of ORF’s ‘Conform or #Cancel’ dialogue.

Humanity's drive to innovate is based on the belief that technologies create a…

Praminder Jeet Singh participated in a panel discussion titled ‘Data Colonization Hinders a Just Transition’ organized by the Asia-Europe People’s Forum on October 21 at 2.30 PM IST.

The webinar focused on Big Data, the control internet companies wield over our daily lives, and the rules these companies should bind by.

Besides…

Anita Gurumurthy will be attending the 'Roundtable Discussion on Developing Legislative Interventions for On-Demand Platform Work in India',  organized by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and FES. The event will be held at Bangalore International Centre, 9.30 am onwards. 

Parminder Jeet Singh has been invited to take part in a virtual policy roundtable on the Consent Manager framework and its instantiation within India’s health data regulatory landscape. The roundtable will be organized by Aapti and Swasth Alliance on October 14 at 5:00 PM IST.

The aim of the roundtable is to convene a multi-stakeholder…

Gurumurthy Kasinathan participated in a panel discussion titled ‘India Online: Inclusive digital education for the next generation’ on 11 October. The discussion was hosted by the SRF Foundation as part of their ‘National Conference on Democratizing Digital – Breaking Barriers for 21st Century Education’.

Digital education is the need of…

Parminder Jeet Singh has been invited to take part in a workshop on STI for SDGs Roadmap on October 11, organized by RIS and OPSA in New Delhi. Parminder will be speaking on the panel ‘Indian Perspectives on STI for SDGs’.

India has demonstrated a strong will to leverage Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for sustainable and…

Anita Gurumurthy took part in a webinar on “Leveraging the Digital Transformation for Decent Work in the Global South” organized by the International Training Centre, ILO. The webinar was conducted on October 10 at 12.30 pm IST.

The session focused on the opportunities and challenges that the digital economy brings about for countries of…

Anita Gurumurthy participated at the launch of “Global Manifesto for Fairer Platform Work” published by Fairwork. In anticipation of the ILO's Meeting of Experts on Decent Work in the Platform Economy, a 'Manifesto for Fairer Platform Work' to protect and ensure the rights of platform workers across the world was launched on October 7 at 7.30…

Parminder Jeet Singh has been invited to take part in a panel discussion on Cross-Border Data Flows held as part of the C20 Summit Parallel Events on October 6 at 4.30 pm IST.

During the discussion speakers will discuss the G20 agenda and the need for international legal framework and governance on cross-border data flows.

Besides…

Parminder Jeet Singh has been invited to a working session titled “Governing Data for Global Flows and Exchanges for Digital Trade” organized by ITfC, The South Centre, and the Transnational Institute on 30 September as part of the 2022 WTO Public Forum. The session will be held at 9.00 pm IST.

Data being a digital society’s key resource…

The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) was organized in Bonn, Germany from 27-30 September. At the conference, civil society actors, researchers, and networkers, mainly from the Global South and with strong LDC participation, gathered. The meeting aimed to provide a timely opportunity to assess the current…

Parminder Jeet Singh took part in a workshop on “Trustworthy Data Spaces: A Dialogue between North and South” during the 2022 WTO Public Forum on 29 September. The workshop was organized by Diplo Foundation, the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM, Switzerland), and the Geneva Internet Platform (GIP).

Although data is non-…

Parminder Jeet Singh has been invited to take part at a working session organized by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation panel at the WTO Public Forum 2022. The session is titled “Democratic Technological Development and Overcoming the Digital Divide in the post-Covid recovery" and will be conducted on 27 September at 9.00 pm IST.

The "Années…

Anita Gurumurthy participated at a session titled “Digital transition - Cooperative platforms have a future!” on 27 September 2022. The session was conducted as part of the Global Innovation Coop Summit at 1.00 pm IST. Speakers at the session analyzed the need and role of collaborative platforms in the context of the cooperative world.

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APWLD and IT for Change, with support from Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) are co-organizing a virtual workshop on Feminist Visions for Digitalizing Economies in Asia. The workshop will examine two specific issues:

1. What are the top considerations for gender justice in the digitalizing economies of the Asia-Pacific?

2. What are…

Parminder Jeet Singh will be speaking at a virtual learning call on non-personal data (NPD) hosted by SFLC.in on September 19 at 4.30 pm IST. The learning call has been organized to discuss certain pressing issues related to NPD governance in India, the developments so far, and the way forward.

The call will focus on the following issues…

Even though the pandemic exposed the deep injustice of our economic and social system, it failed to trigger needed change. More than two years on, the health crisis continues, compounded by spiraling food and energy prices, escalating wars and geopolitical tensions, and ever more signs of environmental collapse. How can progressive forces…

In June 2022, the NITI Aayog published a research report Titled " India's Booming Gig and Platform Economy - Perspectives and Recommendations on the Future of Work", mapping the opportunities and challenges in India’s platformising economy, and coming up with recommendations for a future of work agenda.

In order to engage with this…

IT for Change is co-organizing a workshop on The Digital Ecosystem Opportunity for Indian Agriculture: Making the Right Choices, with Vrutti, and Sewa Cooperative Federation as part of it's EU funded project, Centering Women in India's Digitalizing Economy on August 24, 2022, at the India International Centre, Delhi.

In recent years,…

There is a very strong narrative that argues that, given the lack of resources of our multilateral institutions and the expertise of corporations, they should sit at the decision-making tables alongside states. Multistakeholderism, the name of this phenomenon where corporations have voice and vote, most times dislocating states, especially from…

Global Index on Responsible AI, a project of Data for Development Network organized a workshop on what a feminist construction of AI would mean for the Global South on the 16th of August, 2022. It hoped to unpack a set of tools, ie. OECD Principles, UNESCO Principles, GIRAI for assessing efforts by states to create socially responsible and…

Southern Centre for Inequality Studies is organizing a series of Future of Work(ers) Policy Dialogue. Anita Gurumurthy will be an expert speaker for the discussion on the 16th of August, 2022 on Emerging Forms of Worker Power in the Digital Economy.

They will be looking at how have platform workers responded to digitization. How has…

PAC organized a panel discussion to celebrate and bring in India’s 75 years of Independence. The Panel, "Revisiting the Social Contract - Imperatives for the Future" marked the beginning of a series of activities that PAC will be focussing on in the coming year.

Pranay Kotasthane from Takshashila Institution

Anita Gurumurthy from…

WWF-Pacific , PANG & DAWN are co-organizing a talk on marine genetic resources and data governance on the 9th of August. Anita Gurumurthy will be part of the panel, along with:

Dr Katy Soapi - Ocean Scientist

Chee Yoke Ling - TNI Director

Tekau Frere - OPOC advisor

You can watch a recording of the event here.…

Civil-20 or C20 is an official G20 Engagement group where its presence would ensure the G20 leaders listen to peoples’ voices with the aim of protecting the environment and promoting social and economic development, human rights, and the principle of leaving no one behind.

To achieve the goals and to strengthen the role of C20 in…

Uli is a browser plug-in, based on machine leaning and non-ML approaches, to help mitigate online gender and sexual abuse on Twitter in three Indian languages: Hindi, Tamil, and Indian English. UIi has been jointly produced by The Centre for Internet and Society and Tattle Civic Tech, with support from Omidyar Network. The tool design is based…

Nandini Chami spoke at the third online discussion from the “post-covid feminist agenda” series organized by The Regional Gender and Feminism Office at Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).

The session was organized in partnership with The Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the school of business, The American University in…

Centre for International Governance Innovation is organizing a private roundtable on the future of institutions on the 20th of July, 2022. Anita Gurumurthy will be participating in this roundtable.

The Future of Institutions series asks creative and impactful organizations, leaders, and thinkers to come together to propose answers to two…

To strengthen India’s data protection laws, the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s (JPC) Report on the Personal Data Protection Bill (2019) recommended widening the scope of the bill to include aspects of non-personal data (NPD), including anonymized personal data. This move is believed to be fraught with many lacunas and may lead to unintended…

This webinar will serve as an introductory session to provide key elements for understanding the phenomena of digitalization of food systems from seed to stomach (also known as the 4.0 revolution in food and agriculture). This webinar is being conducted as a free and open teach-in, organized as two 45-minute sessions with 15 minutes for Q&A…

On June 20, 2022, IT for Change and FES co-organized a workshop in Berlin titled, ''. The workshop proposed to examine and discuss the different approaches of the EU and India with regard to data infrastructures and data rights and laws. The objective is to help policymakers make well-considered and deliberate choices in their respective…

Parminder Singh was invited as a speaker for the global assembly of Tech & Game Workers in Berlin on the 16-17th of June to be part of two intensive days discussing how to organize the future of work in the videogame sector.

He spoke on digitalisation & ecologial sustainability and organizing Tech Workers. You can access the…

The Access to Knowledge for Development (A2K4D) Center, in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) - Berlin and IT for Change, is hosting the closed virtual regional workshop on ‘Feminist Visions of the Digital Economy in MENA'. The workshop will curate Middle East and North African (MENA) perspectives on the “The Deal we Always Wanted…

IT for Change is hosting two exciting sessions at RightsCon 2022, happening virtually from June 6 to 10. To participate in these sessions, register for RightsCon 2022 now. 

A community lab hosted by IT for Change and InternetLab. 

The…

We hosted a session at the 11th edition of RightsCon to discuss the current state of affairs and the future agenda for workers’ rights in the digital economy. The session was hosted as a community lab and was co-organized by IT for Change, Why Not Labs, and the ILO. The discussion focused on crystalizing workers’ rights within national…

At this year’s RightsCon summit, we hosted a community lab discussing how judicial systems can ensure access to justice for LGBTQIA+ persons in cases of online gender-based violence in the Global South. The lab explored models and strategies to mitigate violence and identify challenges faced by the LGBTQIA+ community across various legal…

The South Centre and the Transnational Institute, with the support of the Peoples’ Working Group on Multistakeholderism (PWGM), co-organized an online policy dialogue with developing countries’ representatives in Geneva and New York and civil society organizations to discuss the characteristic, impact and challenges that multistakeholderism…

Commonwealth of Learning and IT for Change are offering a course for teachers and teacher educators on the use of Geogebra for mathematics teaching and learning from the 2nd to the 30th of May, 2022.

To enroll for the course, click here.

Teaching Mathematics with Technology (TMT) course introduces…

Shreeja Sen will be part of a session on Gender-based violence and judicial practices in the 2022 Global Cooperation and Training Framework (GCTF) Conference on Ending Gender-based Violence organized by the Gender Equality Committee of the Executive Yuan on 25th May, 2022.

Find the agenda of the conference here.

Watch a recording…

Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to take part in an event discussing the ‘Right to health and personal data protection: currents challenges and potentials’. The event is being hosted by the Brazilian Institute of Consumer Defense (IDEC) with support from the Institute of Communication and Scientific Information in Health of Fiocruz and the…

Parminder Jeet Singh was invited to speak at a webinar on 'Strengthening the Governance of Health Data', organized on May 18. The webinar highlighted issues such as the need to improve health data governance, the need for sector-specific principles for health, health data governance principles and how they complement existing principles to…

Italian conference about platform cooperativism which will take place on 13th May in Bologna, titled it "Cooperative Platforms: a lever for youth policies and the protection of new jobs". The aim was to discuss whether cooperative platforms can be the right instrument to welcome young people into the labor market and bring them closer to the…

Parminder Jeet Singh was invited to speak at a workshop on ‘Trade and Investment Agenda Post Covid-19’ on May 12. Parminder spoke at a session identifying key corporate sectors and actors that are influencing and shaping global policies in the post-pandemic scenario. The session was organized by the Transnational Institute. 

Shreeja Sen will be talking at the session on Deepfakes, Disinformation, Doxxing: How Countering Gender Violence Online Builds a Better Web for All, on 11th May, 2022 as part of the Good Tech Fest.

Register here.

About the session:

Chayn, NotMyPorn, Wise Afrika, IT for Change, and the World Wide Web Foundation showcase…

The 7th Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the SDGs (STI Forum) will be held on 5-6 May 2022 on the theme “Science, technology and innovation for building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The STI…

Anita Gurumurthy was invited to speak at a working session organized by the Bar Association of India (BAI) during their seminar on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2021. The seminar was organized on 3 May 2022. Anita spoke at a working session discussing “Data Governance within the Personal Data Protection Bill & Criminal Law and Privacy…

IT for Change, Internet Freedom Foundation and Bharatiya Krishak Samaj are co-organizing a workshop called 'Right-Digitalisation' to be held in Delhi on April 30th. The workshop will take a cross-sectoral look at “Where digitalization is going wrong; and how to get it right?” across five sectors - health, education, agriculture, online commerce…

IT for Change is hosting and participating in an exciting line up of sessions in this year's eCommerce week from 25th to 29th of April, 2022. Find a detailed list of our sessions below, and register for the conference here to access recordings and attend the sessions.

1. Promoting Inclusive Data Policy Through Capacity Building

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The 2nd in a two-part webinar series, "Trade, Gender & Post-War Recovery: Exploring the Arguments & Intersections," held on 27th April, 2022 organized by  Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights and Gender and Trade Coalition, featuring:

-Nandini Chami, IT for Change
-Diyana Yahaya, Independent Feminist Activist…

Anita Gurumurthy spoke at the 11th Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture on Digital Health - Access, Equity, and Surveillance, organized by Anusandhan Trust SATHI, Centre for Health Equity, Law & Policy & Indian Law Society on the 23rd of April, 2022.

Other lecturers in the panel are:

Apar Gupta (Key note speaker)

Vivek…

IT for Change and InternetLab co-organized a roundtable on April 19th and 20th to catalyze a productive debate revolving around the central question: what new imaginaries of social media governance will be adequate to eradicate the unfreedoms arising from misogyny in online communications agora?

Through this roundtable, the organizations…

Shreeja Sen was part of a panel discussion organized by the Womens Foreign Policy Group on Countering Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence and Intimidation. Her talk was rooted in the same ideas that shape our Recognize, Resist, Remedy project.

You can watch a recording of the session here.

About the event: Technology-…

Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to take part in a webinar on India’s evolving data governance regime. The webinar is being organized by the Elliott School of International Affairs on the 29th of March. Her co-panelist will be Arindrajit Basu, Research Lead, Centre for Internet in Society. The discussion will be moderated by…

Anita Gurumurthy was invited to speak at a policy dialogue on ‘Examining Platform, Data and AI Infrastructures’. The event was organized by the Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay on the 23rd of March, 2022.

Anita was part of a panel discussion on ‘Data, Platforms and AI: A Troubled Legacy’. Her co-panelists included:…

Covid-19 has had a terrible impact on every aspect of life, as we all know. The sufferings of the underprivileged because of Covid-19 and the efforts taken to combat the infection are self-evident. Humankind has witnessed an unprecedented tragedy of the century. Loss of loved ones, lost livelihood prospects for historically marginalized groups…

As a part of the NGO CSW 66 Forum, IT for Change and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung are organizing an online event on "Feminist Futures in the Digitalizing World of Work". This online discussion will explore questions on the feminist futures of work in the digital epoch, the policy and programmatic actions are needed at the global, national and…

Malavika Rajkumar will be part of a panel on Gendered Access to Justice organized by One Future Collective on the 8th of March, 2022.

The panel aims to address the gendered nature of the idea of justice and the process of seeking justice in India. The panel will talk about their on-ground experiences of working in the legal and policy…

Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to speak at the "Southern Region Stakeholders' Conference on Violence Against Women." She will be speaking on a panel on, “Violence Against Women- where we are, what is done so far to combat gender-based violence and what more to do.” Her co-panelists include: 

Uma Mahadevan, IAS, Principal Secretary (…

Parminder Jeet Singh has been invited to speak at the Zoom discussion on "The Fintech Landscape of Blockchains, Cryptocurrency and the Digital Rupee. Should We Be Concerned?". Parminder and his co-panelists explore the Fintech Landscape of Blockchains, CryptoCurrency and the Digital Rupee. His co-panellists include: 

Usha Ramanathan,…

Anita Gurumurthy was invited as a speaker to a virtual national conference being organized by Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi on February 26, 2022. The theme of the conference was “Digital India: Prospects and Challenges”. The conference focused on the changes brought about by digitization in the context of socio-political realities of…

Parminder Singh was part of a panel on Amazon on the 19th of February at the (online) Asia Pacific Social Forum. The panel was jointly organized by the Working Peoples Coalition, Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and e-commerce, Acorn International, UNI Global Union, and Progressive International.

About the forum: In the…

Khawla Zainab spoke at a webinar on Public Reason and Social Media: Questioning the Stakeholders organized by the Economic and Political Weekly.

At the event, she shared some insights from The Macro Frames of Microwork: A Study of Indian Women Workers on AMT in the Post-Pandemic Moment with reference to the labour and labour practises…

Parminder Singh spoke at the Virtual Stakeholder Consultation on Non-Personal Data Regulation and Intersection with PDP Bill organized by the Dialogue on the 10th of Feb, 2022.

Registration link here.

Other speakers at the consultation were:

Astha Kapoor - Co-founder of Aapti Institute

Manoj Garg - Co-founder of…

Parminder Singh was one of the speakers at the UN DESA's Sustainable Development Divison & Ecosoc Partnership forum Spotlight Session - Bridging the Gap: Addressing the vacuum in multilateral governance of digital technology to close the digital divide and support efforts to leave no one behind.

This session was jointly organized by…

Parminder Singh was invited to give a lecture on 'Economic issues of interest in Internet Governance' for the Virtual School of Internet Governance on 31st January, 2022.

Access the module here.

Amshuman Dasarathy was a panelist at a webinar organized by BOOM on AI and Extreme Speech on the 20th of January, 2022.

Other panelists at the event were Maya Mirchandani and Elonnai Hickok. The event was co-organised by BOOM and LMU Munich, led by Professor Sahana Udupa. Other than extreme speech, panelists discussed the threat and…

Avantika Tewari spoke at the World March of Women's global conference, titled, "Feminist Solidarity Against Corporate Power" on 20th January 2022.

The objective of the conference was to mount a global challenge against the tyranny of Big Tech and Transnational Companies that have simultaneously, appropriated the space for resistance.…

The Round Table, Our Future at Stake: The Corporate Capture of Multilateralism aims not only to address the Davos agenda of multistakeholderism but to initiate a dynamic exchange and contribute to building a dialogue between concerned social movements, affected sectors and governments.

Register for it here.

About the event

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Parminder Jeet Singh delivered a public talk organized by All India IT & ITES Employees' Union on 16th January 2022 to discuss workers rights of ownership over data they generate.

Link to register for the event.

You can read the summary of his talk here.

SAMVADA is a youth-focused organization based in Bengaluru that has been working towards building youth leadership, equipping youth in socially critical livelihoods, promoting youth work, and advocating for youth rights. Samvada is organizing a National Consultation on 'Aligning Youth Work with Livelihood Challenges' on 10th and 11th December,…

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

Like every year, the IGF will bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals to discuss public policy issues about the Internet from 6-10th December, aiming to facilitate a common understanding…

Parminder Singh was invited as a speaker to two international workshops as part of the Global Partnership Network Project, under the Jawaharlal Nehru University-Kassel collaborative project on Agricultural Value Systems and Finance Capital, held on 9 December 2021 and Contract Farming in India, held on 10 December 2021.

They were jointly…

This Twitter chat was held on IT for Change's twitter account- @ITforChange
 along with Breakthrough India on Dec 3rd, 2021, from 5 PM – 6 PM IST during the #16DaysofActivism

You can follow the conversation or add your questions & comments using the hashtag #StopDigitalHate on Twitter.

Read through the conversation using…

Anita Gurumurthy was part of an expert panel discussion on the impact of Covid-19 crisis on gender justice in Asia.

The corona pandemic and the related countermeasures, once again, exposed persisting inequalities in Asian societies – in wealth and income, but also along lines like gender, race, caste, and others. Especially less…

Nandini Chami will be moderating a panel on Community Networks: Media, Misinformation and Misuse on the third day of the 5th Community Network Xchange Conference organized jointly by DEF & Internet Society.

Panel Brief: Access to credible information is crucial during crises such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this…

Anita Gurumurthy will be part of a panel speaking on the topic- “Co-Ops for the Indian Digital Economy?” as part of TheNewCommonSense - 2021 Conference of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium

Register for the event here and get the conference live stream here.

Key questions to be discussed in this conversation include:

1.…

Parminder Singh will be talking at the IGF Webinar: 16 Years of IGF Evolution and Strengthening – Taking Stock and Looking Forward organized by MAG Chair in collaboration with the MAG Working Group on IGF Strategy and Strengthening.

This interactive moderated panel looked back and took stock of how the IGF has evolved and what its key…

Nandini Chami participated in a CSO consultation convened by Partners in Change and UNDP for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on 16 Nov 2021, developing a business and human rights reporting template, technically 'Business and Sustainability Reporting template', for ICT Sector companies.

The discussion was able to establish the…

The Fifth South Asia Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals(SAFS 2021) was held on 15-16th November 2021. The theme of the event was Building back better from COVID-19 while accelerating the implementation of the SDGs in South and South-West Asia.

About the event: The South Asia Forum on the SDGs (SAFS) was conceived as the…

Nandini Chami was part of a Consultation with CSOs On Sectoral Reporting Template for the ICT Sector jointly organized by UNDP India and Partners in Change on 16th November as part of their work towards development of ICT Sector specific – Business Responsibility and Sustainability Framework (BRSR).

Background:

The Indian Ministry…

Anita Gurumurthy participated in the 5th South Asia Peoples Forum on Sustainable Development Goals on the 10th of November, 2021.

The main objectives of the forum were to (i) Assess the political, economic, social and environmental situation of the region in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, ii) Identify civic actions and policy…

Anita Gurumurthy was a speaker at the International Online Conference on 'The Other Agenda' - held on the 28th of October on the occasion of the Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the countries belonging to the G20.

Opening statements were made by

- Roberto Morea, Transform Europe, IT on The Other Agenda Project in the…

IT for Change attended the Asia rounds discussion held by Facebook’s Oversight Board, to issue a Policy Advisory Opinion regarding community guidelines restricting sharing of private residential information on Facebook. The session was held on 7th October virtually.

About the session: The Asia round of the meeting from the Oversight…

Anita Gurumurthy will be part of a panel on ' Bringing Women Online: Creating Coalitions for Safe Connectivity in South Asia' in the Women's Safety Symposium for South and Southeast Asia being held on 6th and 7th October.

Overview from organizer: At Facebook, we are committed to ensuring women feel safe on our platforms. We believe that…

The World Trade Organization Public Forum 2021 is being held from September 30 to October 1. IT for Change is participating in two sessions.

Register here to attend the sessions.

On September 30, Parminder Singh will be speaking at the 61st session- "Conditions for appropriate e-commerce in developing countries."

Session…

Anita Gurumurthy is part of a panel on Social Media, Networks, and Movements for Women's Empowerment on September 30, 2021 as part of the Gender and Digital Health Webinar Series co-organized by The Gender & Health Hub, UNU-IIGH, The University of Cape Town and BBC Media Action.

The Gender and Digital Health Webinar Series is a…

Anita Gurumurthy and Parminder Jeet Singh were part of two panels at the Civil Society Forum for the 15th Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD15) to be held from 3rd to 7th October, 2021. The theme for this year's conference is From Inequality and Vulnerability to Prosperity for All.

The Forum was…

Anita Gurumurthy was invited to be a part of the 7th #OneSouthAsia Conversation organized by the World Bank Group which focussed on the potentials and challenges of leveraging technologies to build human capital and help South Asia manage risks and shocks.

Spanning conversations on how to overcome regional barriers, promote cross-country…

Parminder Singh was invited to speak at an India Counter Dialogue on the UN Food Systems Summit organized by Jan Sarokar. This event was held over two sessions on 3rd and 4th September 2021.

The overall program of the Dialogue consists of four sessions. These sessions were developed around the five Action Tracks, although not limited to…

Parminder Jeet Singh will be participating in a session on Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work: Managing the Impacts, as a part of a policy roundtable on Harnessing Industry 4.0 for India's Development: Opportunities and Challenges. The event is being organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Institute for Studies in Industrial…

Nandini Chami made a presentation on "Platform accountability for gender-based cyber violence: An analysis of the Indian legal-policy landscape" for the fellows at the Young Leaders in Tech Policy Fellowship, as part of their training program. This fellowship is conducted by the International Innovation Corps, at the University of Chicago, and…

Anita Gurumurthy will be speaking about 'Biodiversity as Big Data: How DSI fits into Global Data Flows' at a capacity-building webinar on Digital Sequence Information (DSI), organized by the Global Youth Biodiversity Network in collaboration with Third World Network.

This first session aims to be a primer for those who are new to the…

Anita Gurumurthy will be delivering the keynote lecture on the second day of Back to the Future, the Techne Student Congress, held from July 5 to 7, 2021. The congress will be hosted by Loughborough University London.

Anita's keynote is on 'Justice in the Post-public Sphere: The New Challenge for Global Communication Governance', wherein…

 The Regional Institute of English, South India (RIESI) and IT for Change are organizing a two-day international conference on Grappling with the New-Normal: English-Language Teaching during Pandemic Times.

The global Covid-19 pandemic has forced educational stakeholders to disseminate knowledge outside the ease of a classroom. Each…

IT for Change's Khawla Zainab will be speaking at an online seminar on Precarious Futures for Gender Equality in the Post-Covid Tourism World, hosted by the Transforming Tourism Initiative on Thursday, June 17, 02:30 pm CET.

The tourism sector has been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. This has worsened the already precarious…

Anita Gurumurthy will be participating in a discussion on digital health and international cooperation, organized by Medicus Mundi International Network as part of their Series of Policy Dialogues, and co-organized by IT for Change, among others.

This session shall allow actors representing different realities and positions to assess the…

IT for Change is hosting and participating in an exciting line-up of sessions at RightsCon 2021, happening virtually from June 7 to 11.

Click on the session-specific links below to know more and add them to your RightsCon schedule!

Re-envisioning Digital Education: The Pandemic’s Fallout and the Future of Inclusive Education…

Anita Gurumurthy spoke at a plenary session on The Future of Data Ecosystems at the CORE Net conference on Learnings for Resilience and Resurgence on June 10, 2021. The session was anchored by Aapti Institute and presented by CORE Net.

This plenary was about new frontiers in data, data stewardship, data sharing and emergent ideas of data…

Parminder Jeet Singh will be participating in a civil society pre-event on Frontier Technologies, The Digital Economy and Development, organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). This event is part of a series of online dialogues with civil society to be held in preparation for the UNCTAD15 Ministerial…

Nandini Chami will be conducting the fourth Crash Course on big tech, techno-feudalism and democracy, on the topic of Big Tech and the Global South. This session is being organized by Crash Course, a platform designed to open up debate on social, economic, ecological and regenerative justice.

This crash course will take a closer look at…

Parminder Jeet Singh will be participating in a panel discussion on digital trade, global inequality, and multilateral e-commerce agreements at this panel discussion, organized by the German Federal Foreign Office, as part of their Digital Diplomacy Debate series.

Today, many trade flows of goods and services move entirely online. While…

Anita Gurumurthy will be delivering the keynote address at the IFIP 9.4 Virtual Conference, 2021, the theme of which is Resilient ICT4D. Anita's keynote is titled Where to, from resilience? An exploration of post-pandemic, digital pathways towards the “distribution of freedom”. 

The first Virtual IFIP 9.4 Conference on Implications of…

IT for Change will be co-hosting the Research Working Group Meeting of the Global Platform Governance Network in May.

CIGI and Reset have partnered to create the Global Platform Governance Network (GPGN). The GPGN is a global community of civil servants, legislative staff and regulators committed to a collaborative and harmonized…

Deepti Bharthur moderated a session on Realigning Data and Technology at The Global Solutions Summer School 2021 hosted by Global Solutions: The World Policy Forum.

The session, featuring Francesca Bria (President, Italian National Innovation Fund), was part of a series of online dialogues. The overarching theme of these dialogues was:…

Nandini Chami spoke at two roundtables during the Data Justice Conference, 2021 on May 20-21. The conference, hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), brought together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges…

On behalf on the Just Net Coalition, Anita Gurumurty participated in the Consultation of Civil Society with the Co-Chairs of the Preparatory Committee for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) on May 20, 2021.

This consultation will be followed by the first PREPCOM for the Fifth UN Conference on the…

IT for Change is hosting the strategy roundtable 'Socializing Data Value: How Can Data Governance Meet the Challenge?' on May 11-12, with support from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).

The two-day roundtable will bring together a small group of scholars, scholar-activists, and practitioners to explore the elements of an institutional…

Anita Gurumurthy introduced and co-moderated a session on 'Beyond state control and corporate power:  An alternative digitalization of public health' hosted by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) on Wednesday, 12 May 2021.

This session was part of Lost in the Pandemic? The pulse of global health in times of SARS-CoV-2 – a series of…

Parminder Jeet Singh will be participating in a panel discussing the distinction between personal and non-personal data, and the ways in which different countries have tried to regulate the flow of non-personal data.

Globally, laws pertaining to non-personal data are fragmented, and in most cases, this data is unregulated. The…

Parminder Jeet Singh participated in a discussion on the global governance of digitalization, and actions being taken at the multilateral level to govern digital technologies. The session sought to find whether multilateral governance of digital technology will help close the digital divide.

Other panelists for the session included:…

Parminder Jeet Singh will be participating in a panel discussion on WhatsApp's move into commerce. The webinar will explore how the world’s largest messaging app is set to generate a new commercial ecosystem, by hoping to see users opt-in to a chat-like interaction with businesses, powered by the metadata Facebook and WhatsApp have been…

IT for Change and Third World Network are co-hosting a learning session on "Decoding Digital Sequence Information: A Development Perspective", with support from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on Wednesday, March 31, 2021.

The session aims to equip scholars and activists to understand the issues at stake for the global governance of digital…

Anita Gurumurthy will speak at the thematic session on the role of media in building a feminist agenda during the Generation Equality Forum 2021.

The session aims to explore the gaps in regulatory mechanisms - particularly with respect to the cross-border jurisdiction of social media and its role in shaping national public spheres; and…

Parminder Jeet Singh spoke about "Delhi Declaration for a Just and Equitable Internet" at a session on Decolonizing Digital Rights, hosted by the University of Padova as part of the Online Winter School: Times and Spaces of Globalization.

The session reflected on the social, political, and economic impact of the internet and related…

Anita Gurumurthy will be chairing a panel on Critical Approaches and Theories for Platform Governance, at the First Annual Conference of the Platform Governance Network, being held from March 24-26, 2021.

The session will feature a wide range of presentations and inputs from researchers on critical approaches to platform governance, …

Parminder Jeet Singh spoke at a virtual panel discussion titled 'Public Square or Walled Garden? A Conversation on India's New Internet Regulations', hosted by the Centre for Communication Governance, NLU, Delhi.

The session reflected on the recently notified Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code…

Anita Gurumurthy will be participating in the Paulo Freire Centennial, organized by the University of Loughborough, London, celebrating the birth of the Brazilian educator. The program consists of talks based on the five principles of Freire’s ‘ontological call’ – humility, empathy, love, hope and dialogue – which he presented as the spirit of…

Anita Gurumurthy will participate in the panel "Leveraging Technology as an Equity Enabler in Society", as part of the CII-IWN Annual Summit 2021, the overarching theme for which is "Equity the Leveller".

Other panellists include:

Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami participated in two panels in the 2nd United Nations South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights, 2021.

Anita Gurumurthy moderated a panel titled, "Addressing Gender Bias in New Technologies", on March 17, 2021 which reflected on the following questions:

    How do new technologies depict and…

Anita Gurumurthy will be delivering the keynote lecture at the launch of the B'AI Global Forum 2021, at the session "Gender Justice in the AI Era: A dialogue on engagement and activism", on the topic of Feminist Futures in the Intelligence Economy, which will be followed by a panel discussion.

The panel will discuss what the necessary…

IT for Change, with support from EdelGive Foundation and International Development Research Centre, Canada (IDRC), is bringing together legal scholars, practitioners, platform intermediaries, feminist activists and journalists in a three-part webinar series to unpack sexist hate speech online across February, in the lead up to International…

Anita Gurumurthy will be chairing the panel "Optimizing Tech-Based Solutions for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Business" at the second International Conference on Gender Equality (ICGE), organized by The Gender Park in association with UN Women.

The ICGE aims to bring together a global cross-section of scholars, practitioners,…

Anita Gurumurthy will be moderating a session at the Civil Society Forum 2021 on "Digital Technology and Good Governance: Creating a Legal Environment that Protects Human Rights, Respects Privacy, and Prevents Abuses".

This session will explore how global digital governance must be guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at…

IT for Change participated in two events at the World Social Forum 2021, held virtually.

Bhavna Jha participated in the panel "Contemporary pressures on the collective imagination and resistance", which explored the role of communication, education and culture in the future of democracies.

Other panellists included:

IT for Change will be hosting the Seventh Quarterly Roundtable of the Data Governance Network on Wednesday, January 27th from 3:15 to 5:45 PM IST.

Researchers from the DGN nodes – IDFC Internet Democracy Project, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, and IT for Change – will make exciting research presentations on diverse data…

IT for Change will be co-organizing the webinar The Great Take Over: How we resist the Davos capture of global governance, which critically examines and challenges the capture of global governance by large transnational corporations.

The post Covid-19 world presents a new opportunity for corporations to ensure that global governance…

Parminder Jeet Singh was a participant in the Virtual Stakeholder Consultation on Non Personal Data Governance Framework, held as part of the Stakeholder Consultation on Future of India’s Data Governance Policies, where he presented an intervention on the revised version of the Draft Non Personal Data Framework and its relation to the Personal…

Gurumurthy Kasinathan will be participating in India FOSS Week, hosted by Civic Data Lab and supported by Omidyar Network India, in a panel discussion on FOSS and Education.

The panel will discussion questions around how educational institutes can be better supported in sustainably adopting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and how …

Parminder Jeet Singh will be participating in a public round table discussion on "Open Digital Ecosystems: The Way Forward for India", co-hosted by Omidyar Network India and Carnegie India. This session is part of the first virtual edition of the annual Global Technology Summit (GTS), 2020, co-hosted by Carnegie India and the Ministry of…

Anita Gurumurthy will be moderating a virtual discussion on "Digital Platforms, Labour Rights, and Organising for Women in the Gig Economy", which is part of Arthan's "Women, Work and the Gig Economy" research initiative, and is taking place during their international Future of Work forum from December 16 to 18, 2020.

The session will…

Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami will be presenting a feminist action framework for the digital economy at the Global South Women's Forum 2020, during the session "The Deal We Always Wanted", co-organized by IT for Change and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. This session seeks to highlight the urgent imperative for social movements to respond to the…

Yogesh K S gave a lightning talk hosted by the Creative Commons Open Education Platform demonstrating how MediaWiki platform, and Wikimedia open knowledge projects can be used as pedagogical tools to access content online, collaboratively create and share learning resources, thereby facilitating and integrating wikis into the Open Education.…

Nandini Chami spoke at the launch of Campaign of Campaigns, a collaborative project by the Civil Society Group on Financing for Development (CS Group on FfD) and the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD), aiming to promote a “package” of macro demands about the most pressing global challenges and to rally support for…

Anita Gurumurthy spoke at a panel discussion on 'Lessons learned from 2020 to democratize economic governance and planning ahead', organized by the Women's Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD). The panel was part of their Global Town Hall for Macro Solutions for Women, People and the Planet.

Anita broadly discussed the…

Nandini Chami will participate in a panel discussion on 'Promoting Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment through Digitalization' at a high-level event organized the European Commission, in cooperation with the European External Action Service and the German Presidency of the European Union, on November 25 2020.

The event will mark the launch of…

Bhavna Jha will be speaking at Cybercrimes Against Women: Towards A New Legal Framework, a webinar held on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, organized by the Centre for Constitutional Rights Research & Advocacy (CCRRA), India.

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues and more women take to digital spaces…

Parminder Jeet Singh will be speaking at a session on Financing for Development and South Asia, as part of the series "South Asia Peoples Forum on the SDGs (SAPF 2020): Protecting Rights of the People in the time of Covid-19 crisis".

Focusing on the critical issue of financing key development objectives including but not limited to the…

Rising to the challenges of a global pandemic, the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be convened virtually this year from Nov 2 - 17, 2020.

Like every year, the IGF will bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals to discuss public policy issues about the Internet, aiming to facilitate a common understanding of…

Anita Gurumurthy spoke at a webinar on Platform Cooperatives, as part of the ILO COOP 100 Symposium, where she presented insights from an upcoming research paper from IT for Change, conducted for the ILO. The paper, titled "Platform Labour in Search of Value", researches new political organizing strategies and economic models being explored by…

Parminder Jeet Singh is participating in a panel discussion on Non-Personal Data: Scope and Challenges, as part of IIM Bangalore and IISc Bangalore's panel series on Non-Personal Data for Public Good.

The first in the panel series, this kick-off discussion will look at the potential for Non-Personal Data to provide significant economic…

Anita Gurumurthy gave a masterclass on Economies Through Data: Southern Feminist Perspectives, as part of the World Social Forum of Transformative Economies, 2020. This masterclass was organized by DAWN and Escuela de Economia Feminista in collaboration with IT for Change and Feminist Digital Justice.

Anita discussed how the struggles…

Anita Gurumurthy participated in a webinar on Digital Sequence Information: Taking Stock and Moving Forward, organized by the Third World Network as part of their Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework series of webinars.

The webinar aimed to bring participants up to date on international discussions related to digital sequence…

Parminder Jeet Singh is participating in a panel discussion on perspectives on digital sovereignty in the Global South, organized by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Washington, DC, a non-profit organization that is part of the global green movement, and Konnektiv, a Berlin-based agency working at the intersection of technology, collaboration,…

Gurumurthy Kasinathan is participating in a panel discussion on the application of data and technology to improve developmental and humanitarian outcomes without exacerbating inequalities and causing harm, organized by the London International Development Network, on 22 October, 2020.

This panel will discuss whether data and technology…

IT for Change co-organized a webinar on 'Why Does Data Governance Matter for Workers' Rights?' with Public Services International, Focus on the Global South, and Third World Network. This is the third and last of a three-part webinar series on digital trade rules and workers' rights.

The webinar explored why data governance matters for…

Anita Gurumurthy gave a talk titled ‘Understanding the Digital Economy at the Covid Conjuncture’, as part of a one-month, international webinar series on Covid-19 and its impact on women. This series was a collaborative effort between the Department of Women’s Studies, University of Calicut and the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS…

IT for Change and the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development, an alliance of women’s organizations and networks which advocates for the advancement of women’s human rights and gender equality in the Financing for Development related UN processes, co-hosted a panel on What the Social Contract Means in the Age of Data – Feminist…

IT for Change's Khawla Zainab and Ankita Aggarwal made a presentation on Understanding Data Capitalism as part of a two day workshop on Digitalisation and Women. 

The workshop, organized by World March of Women, saw feminist activists from across countries coming together to discuss issues such as digitalisation and women's labor,…

IT for Change's Anita Gurumurthy was a panelist at a discussion on 'Feminist Internet -- An Alternative', co-organized by Breakthrough and Arthan.

This session was a part of a 2-day series about 'Making Technology Gender Inclusive', to understand how technology can be made gender friendly and more accessible by women and girls.

…

IT for Change's Deepti Bharthur and Nandini Chami participated in a discussion about 'Digital Commons: Actions Research Perspectives' on Thursday, 10th Sept 2020, at 5:00 pm.

The discussion was part of a collaborative initiative by the Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) and Environment Support Group Trust (ESG) titled '…

Parminder Jeet Singh contributed to the plenary meeting on “Criticism of Globalisation in the Digital World: Big Data, Technology Giants and Counter-force”, organised by the Karibu Foundation as part of the Norwegian Social Forum, from 4 - 6 September. The theme of the 2020 forum was “From Crisis to Struggle”, focusing on peoples’ mobilisation…

Anita Gurumurthy spoke at a two-part webinar series titled 'Research and Destruction: The Role of Science in Waging Imperialist War and Fighting for Just Peace', organized by Commission 13 of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS). 

This webinar series highlighted the ways in which scientific institutions utilize their…

Gurumurthy Kasinanthan participated in a discussion about whether algorithms are here to stay, and how we can respond to the challenge of algorithmic injustice, organised by Open Democracy on 27th Aug 2020.

The discussion raised issues about governments increasingly using algorithms to make decisions that affect us all. The UK’s exam…

Sadhana Sanjay represented IT for Change at a virtual roundtable about the gig economy, co-organized by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL).

The discussion brought together civil society organizations and workers organizations working on the gig economy to…

India and the US are close to signing a limited trade deal that includes some key agricultural and dairy products, medical devices and some issues of digital trade. India hopes to secure a continuation of GSP concessions and a possible reversal of punitive tariff hikes by the US. However, a more ambitious Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is also…

Anita Gurumurthy participated in the Janta Parliament, a virtual people's parliament, jointly organised by by several civil society initiatives and grassroots movements, to discuss urgent governance, policy and rights-based issues that have arisen during the Covid-19 pandemic, and to put forward policy suggestions to the government.

The…

Anita Gurumurthy will be speaking at an online conference entitled "Countering the Effects of the Pandemic: Women’s Viewpoints" organized by the "women and girls" working group of the Civil BRICS.

The discussion will highlight some of the principal economic problems that BRICS countries are facing after the pandemic, and discuss…

Parminder Jeet Singh will be a panelist for a discussion about 'Unpacking Community Consent and Collective Models for Data Stewardship', facilitated by Astha Kapoor. This panel, hosted by Aapti Institute, is part of their discussion series titled 'Data Deliberations'.

The idea of community ownership and governance of data and the…

IT for Change's Anushka Mittal and Parminder Jeet Singh will participate in the Data Governance Network's Fifth Quarterly Roundtable, hosted by IDFC Institute. The online roundtable, which takes place between August 4 and August 6, will see researchers present their work on use of technology in government during the Covid-19 pandemic.

…

India and the US are close to signing a limited trade deal that includes some key agricultural and dairy products, medical devices and some issues of digital trade. India hopes to secure a continuation of GSP concessions and a possible reversal of punitive tariff hikes by the US. However, a more ambitious Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is also…

IT for Change's Parminder Jeet Singh will be speaking about community rights over data at the virtual stakeholder consultation on non-personal data governance, organized by The Dialogue on Friday, July 31 from 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm IST.

The objectives of the consultation, held in the wake of the Committee of Experts’ report on India’s Non-…

Rising to the challenges of a global pandemic, the RightsCon Summit Series will be hosting its ninth edition on an online platform from July 27-31, 2020.

Like every year, the summit will bring together business leaders, policy makers, technologists, advocates, academics, government representatives, and journalists from…

Parminder Jeet Singh was a part of an interactive discussion about the draft non-personal data governance framework. The session was moderated by Amrita Choudhury from CCAOI and Internet Society, India Delhi Chapter, and Rahul Sharma from The Perspective.

The participants deliberated on the nature of non-personal data and issues…

Parminder Jeet Singh's latest research 'Economic Rights in a Data-based Society: Collective Data Ownership, Workers’ Rights, and the Role of the Public Sector' was presented and discussed at the conversation about 'Data Ownership: Corporate Control or Collective Ownership?', organized by Public Services International – PSI and the Friedrich…

IT for Change will co-host a webinar with Public Services International (PSI) titled 'Covid and Free Trade: Workers Countering Big-Tech in the Post-Covid Era' .

While the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented health crisis and is predicted to have devastating economic impacts, technology giants such as Google, Amazon, Facebook,…

Yogesh KS will participate and present a paper on Integrating Wikis into Open and Distance Learning, co-authored with Gurumurthy Kasinathan, at the 24th Indian Distance Education Associate (IDEA) National Conference. The presentation is scheduled between 3:15 pm and 4:45 pm on July 18, Saturday.

The event is being organized by the…

Anita Gurumurthy will participate in the second plenary panel for the 2020 conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) which aims to examine the theme 'The Future of Internet Governance: Risk, Trust and Institutions'.

IAMCR 2020 online sessions and plenaries will be a series of high-quality pre…

Anita Gurumurthy is one of the speakers at this panel discussion on the long-term implications of increasing digitisation and population surveillance in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The panel will focus on the long-term consequences of increasing levels of digitised cash transfers, digitised cash payment systems and digital health…

Parminder Jeet Singh was a delegate at a meeting about "COVID-19, Trade in Services and E-Commerce". The meeting was organized by South Center in collaboration with UNCTAD, Centre for WTO Studies, IT for Change, Public Citizen and TWN.

In the session overview, Aileen Kwa and Amb Mulumbi Peter addressed concerns about "What is needed in…

Bhavna Jha spoke at a webinar on Gender-Based Violence and Technology organized by UNDP and UNICEF.

The webinar discussed the rise in the use of mobile and web-based technology to support the increasing number of survivors of gender-based violence since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This policy dialogue focused on the…

Anita Gurumurthy was part of this online panel on 'Digitalisation and Global Equity: Who Benefits, Who Loses?' organised by ICT for Sustainability.

While stories of global digital enablement continue to be told and manifest in various ways, new forms of disadvantage, divides and even imperialist structures have also emerged. The…

Anita Gurumurthy was one of the speaker at a webinar organised by the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIR Network) on a feminist transformation of the internet. Other speakers included Mariana Valente of Internet Labs, Marwa Azelmat, Helani Galpaya of LIRN Asia and Anriette Esterhuysen.

IT for Change's Gurumurthy Kasinathan was a panelist at the e-assembly on 'Covid-19 Pandemic and Higher Education: Challenges and Beyond', on June 17 and 18. The e-assembly aimed to deliberate on the issues and concerns in higher education due to the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. Gurumurthy Kasinathan spoke at the panel on “Digitalizing Higher…

The global trade in data now outstrips trade in goods, and data is widely understood as a valuable raw material. Importantly, it is a raw material that we all create, through our lives and work, yet most of us - including public bodies like the NHS and communities in the Global South - are capturing little if any value from our data output.…

Prior to the pandemic, popular opposition to the power of Big Tech was growing. Yet, in the Covid-19 moment, Big Tech has emerged stronger than ever. A new digital economy opportunism is deepening faultlines of inequality, while systems of surveillance are being normalised that will invariably be deployed along class and race lines.

This…

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 exacerbated 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…

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 specific, it will focus on the…

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…

Anita Gurumurthy was a panelist at a one-day conference on “Internet Governance in India: People, Purpose and Process” organised by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) with the support of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY).

This paper was written as part of 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,…

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.

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…

Anita Gurumurthy participated in a convention titled 'Built for Purpose: Charting the Future of Asia's Civil Society in Transformative Times' organised by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The event brought together various civil society activists.

Anita's presentation at this event, tited 'New Actors, New…

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…

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 was 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.

The subject of the presentation was 'Surveillance Capitalism and Digital Futures'. We are in the age of surveillance…

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…

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.

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…

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,…

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 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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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". 

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…

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.

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. 

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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 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…

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 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,

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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.

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 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…

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.…

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 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".

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…

The DIODE network will be holding a two-day workshop in Manchester, UK on 11-12 April 2018. It will consist of:

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…

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 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…

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;

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:

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…

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.'

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.

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.…

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 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…

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.

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 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: 

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…

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…

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,…

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.

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-…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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”.

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…

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.

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…

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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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, 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…

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.

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.

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,…