Research papers

Digital India through a Gender Lens

In 2017, the Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) commissioned IT for Change to undertake a research study critically analysing the government's Digital India programme, assessing the key

Background paper: Policy frameworks for digital platforms - Moving from openness to inclusion

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Learnings from using Geogebra to support mathematics teaching in government high schools

Mathematics teaching in government high schools is challenging.

Exploring teacher development through the TPACK framework

Content and pedagogy are seen as inter-twined components of

Southern feminist analysis and action agenda

Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami authored two issue papers for Association for Progressive Communication's research series on 'Internet and ICTs for social justice and development'

Professional Learning Communities, an ICT integrated model of in-service teacher education

Paper presented at the

Advocacy - Public Private Partnership in school education

MHRD released a draft note on 'Public Private Partnership in school education' in October 2009.

Research on Open Educational Resources for Development - ROER4D Phase 2

As a part of the “Research on Open Educational Resources for Development” project, ITfC conducted an action research on a collaborative OER adoption

Examining Technology-mediated Violence against Women through a Feminist Framework: Towards appropriate legal-institutional responses in India

The paper attempts to posit a feminist theoretical framework adequate to this complexity, as a signpost for progressive legal-institutional responses. It argues that rather than piece-meal alterations to the existing law, the paradigmatic shifts ushered in by the digital, justify investing in a new law for technology-mediated violence against women (TMVAW).

Background paper on Policy frameworks for digital platforms

In April 2017, IT for Change with support from the International Development Research Centre, Canada is initiating a multi-country research study to map the key issues/concerns for the rights and inclusion agenda, stemming from pervasive platformisation, in three key domains – economy, knowledge and governance. Through a detailed analysis of digital platforms in these three domains across 8 country-contexts, the project seeks to garner insights about key policy implications for critical areas of governance, such as :
- access to knowledge,
- access to data,