Advocacy

Our  Executive Director, Anita Gurumurthy, is a member of the UN CSTD Working Group on Data Governance. In line with its mandate under Para 48 of the UN Global Digital Compact, the Working Group is exploring follow-up recommendations towards equitable and interoperable data governance arrangements, through deliberations on four key tracks:…

IT for Change submitted its feedback/comments on the draft amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 ("IT Rules") relating to synthetically generated information released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Our submission highlighted two key issues of the…

IT for Change, along with a coalition of civil society organizations—including Privacy International and Human Rights Watch—has released a Joint Civil Society Statement in response to the International Labour Organization’s Brown Report on decent work in the platform economy.

The statement outlines key shortcomings in the current draft…

IT for Change joined with Privacy International, Human Rights Watch, Derechos Digitales, TEDIC in a group of more than 30 civil society organisations and labour unions in endorsing the call for the International Labour Organization (ILO) to adopt a binding Convention supplemented by a Recommendation to secure decent work in the platform economy…

IT for Change endorses the joint statement on the WSIS+20 review from Global South organizations, led by the Tech Global Institute.  

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) articulated a vision for people-centered, development-driven, and inclusive digital governance. Yet today, that vision is increasingly undermined by…

IT for Change, as part of the  Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) invites you to endorse its  Call to Action for WSIS+20 and Beyond. 

In 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 year. A high-level meeting will take place in June 2025 to review the overall implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information…

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. This was to further the public financing for the digital tech agenda in the Outcome Document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for…

IT for Change responded to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”) sub-committee’s Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development. Our comments largely addressed the need to…

IT for Change submitted its feedback/comments on the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (DPDP Rules) released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The key points of our feedback are outlined below.

1. Notice given by Data Fiduciary to Data Principal: