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Notes from the Field: How Does Aadhaar-Enabled Welfare Delivery Exclude Women?

In the landmark case from 2018, Justice K. S.

Platform Capitalism and Edtech

For-profit edtech needs to be banned, and the government must play an active regulatory role.

On Cybercrime Against Women and its Larger Causes

This is an electronic interview conducted between Anita Gurumurthy and The Quint, India on cybercrime in India and its larger cause in the wake of the

The Gig Podcast S2E3: Who Cares? The Permanent Wave

Our research associate, Khawla Zainab, along with Kriangsak Teerawitkajorn from the Just Economy and Labour Institute (JELI) were part of the third episode of the second season of th

The Crypto Assets Conundrum

Why legalizing crypto assets is dangerous

Covid, Folk Psychology and Pedagogy Viruses

The pandemic has exposed India’s ambivalence about scientific knowledge.

Monetising Data- For Whose Good?

Karnataka’s Open Data Policy opens up a Pandora’s box of concerns for public interest and citizen rights

Reclaiming a Feminist Digital Public Sphere from the Margins

An essay authored by IT for Change's Deepti Bharthur and Ankita Aggarwal, titled 'Reclaiming a Feminist Digital Public Sphere from the Margins', has been published in the third quart

Online Education Is Not the Solution

School closures since March 2020 have allowed students limited opportunities for structured learning, causing learning loss, and aggravating malnutrition, child abuse, child labour,

WhatsApp Challenges Govt: Breaking End-to-End Encryption Will Lead to Security Issues but Timing of Petition Circumspect

The new Intermediary Guidelines (IL Guidelines), require messaging platforms that have over 50 lakh registered users (such as WhatsApp) “enable the identification of the first origin