Our Advocacy Statements
Joint Submission to the Call for Input for *EMRTD Study ‘Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Rights, and the Right to Development’
IT for Change and the Center for Global Digital Justice made a joint submission in response to the OHCHR call for input to inform the thematic study of the Expert Mechanism on Right to Development on "Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Rights and RIght to Development".
In our submission, we highlighted the following risks posed by the…
Zero draft of the WSIS+20 Outcome Document: Comments from the Global Digital Justice Forum
It for Change, as part of the Global Digital Justice Forum, submitted its text proposals on the Zero Draft of the WSIS+20 Outcome document. We cautioned against an overly optimistic reading of the progress towards WSIS Commitments and urged an honest acknowledgement that a profit-centric technological revolution has failed to open up pathways…
ReGenAI: A New Deal for the AI Economy
IT for Change requests your endorsement of this statement that challenges the prevailing AI paradigm, characterized by precarity, market concentration, exclusion, and ecological harm.
As organizations and individuals in pursuit of global digital justice, we are united in rejecting the current AI paradigm and calling for a ‘ReGenAI: New…
Biosecurity Issues in the PABS Negotiations
IT for Change has signed on to a letter submitted by scientists, academics, and scientific organizations from multiple regions across the world, expressing concerns regarding biosecurity risks in the ongoing negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) Annex to the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
The letter reflects issues…
Why a cross-track approach is necessary to steer the work of the CSTD Working Group on Data Governance
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’s Submission on the Draft Amendments to the Information Technology Rules, 2021, Relating to Synthetically Generated Information
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’s Submission to the EU Merger Guidelines
IT for Change submitted a response to the public consultation to assess the EU's Horizontal and Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines on 3 September 2025. We provided targeted inputs to the 'digitalisation' chapter to highlight the novel concerns emerging from the platform economy that remain largely unaddressed in the current iteration of the…
Joint Statement on the ILO’s Brown Report on the Platform Economy
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 Changeʼs Response to the USTR’s Request for Comments on Significant Foreign Trade Barriers for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report
In September 2025, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a notice inviting comments on “significant foreign trade barriers” to US exports of goods and services, for inclusion in the 2026 National Trade Estimates (NTE) Report. In response, IT for Change’s submission challenges the characterization of a range of…
Submissions to the UN CSTD Working Group on Data Governance
In 2024, the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development established a Working Group on Data Governance to engage in a comprehensive dialogue on data governance at all levels, as relevant to development.…