Publications

Global Digital Justice Forum’s Submission to the UN Survey on the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and the Global Dialogue on AI Governance

Some members of the Global Digital Justice Forum—IT for Change, APC, Global Partners Digital, Derechos Digitales, and Media Monitoring Africa—collectively prepared a submission in response to a UN…

Global Digital Justice Forum’s Inputs to the OHCHR on the use of AI and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

In response to the call for inputs by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), IT for Change and the undersigned civil society organizations, who are part of…

IT for Change's Submission to the Call for Inputs on Indigenous Peoples Right To Data

As part of our ongoing advocacy work in the digital rights space, IT for Change recently responded to a call for inputs titled 'Indigenous Peoples right to data, including data collection and…

Response to ITU Call for Inputs: WSIS +20 Review

In response to the call for inputs by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), IT for Change made a submission detailing the priorities and expectations from the WSIS +20 happening this…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Gig Worker: Analyzing Value Creation in Platformized Labor Relations in India Through the Prism of Social Reproduction Theory

The starting point of this paper is that the value extraction apparatus of digital labor platforms can be understood only by deploying a ‘reproductive lens’ and not through a exclusive focus on…

Joint submission/endorsement with Digital Merger Watch DMW on a response to the Nvidia/Run:ai merger

Along with a coalition of CSOs IT for Change contributed to a submission to the European Competition Commission urging it to investigate the Nvidia/Run:ai merger. The group expressed concerns that…

Pathways to Gender Equality in the Platform Economy: Evolving a Policy Agenda for Beijing+30

IT for Change, with support from Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, is undertaking a project ‘Pathways to Gender Equality in the Platform Economy: Evolving a Policy Agenda for Beijing+30’, commencing in…

IT for Change's Contribution to the Financing for Development Debate

We made a solicited contribution to the Technology Workstream of the Civil Society Mechanism, associated with the Financing for Development mechanism of the UN, led by ETC Group and SID Institute…

Recovering the ‘Public’ in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure Strategy

Building on our ongoing research project on 'Effective Ethical Frameworks for the State as an Enabler of Innovation', our team authored a policy brief titled 'Recovering the ‘Public’ in India’s…

Effective Ethical Frameworks for the State as an Enabler of Innovation

Digital infrastructure-led development has occupied centre stage in the global policy circles. The discourse in India focuses on leapfrogging the traditional stages of development with the use of…