Digital and data technologies are not merely tools or enablers of development; they are the scaffolds of a new social paradigm. As data flows through a more and more interconnected planet, the…
Publications
Progress towards every single sustainable development goal (SDG) of Agenda 2030 also hinges on the effective deployment of digital technologies. In Global Governance Spotlight 4|2019, Anita…
Last week, Facebook announced Libra, its new currency based on blockchain technology.
This development that has been met with mixed reactions. Unlike Bitcoin, Libra will be backed by a…
Education has been accepted as a project for social and political transformation, with the development of each individual not only for…
Between 2018-19, with support from the Web Foundation, IT for Change implemented the Righting Gender Wrongs project, an exploratory socio-legal research on gender-based cyberviolence across six…
Digital data and the pervasive intelligence it provides about people and artefactual and natural phenomenon, is the very basis of a digital economy. With the industrial revolution, machines soon…
Going by the chapter on data in the Economic Survey released on July 4, it seemed that the government’s new Budget would carry new thinking on the digital economy. If data of, for, and by, the…
Nandini Chami was a panelist on the 'Towards an empowerment scorecard for women in e-commerce' session during UNCTAD's eCommerce Week 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The panel…
Earlier this week, Facebook deleted over 700 pages in India for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” and “spam”. Most of these pages were related to the Congress and the BJP. The action, evidently…
There are two ways to look at the digital economy. One is just as progressive automation of production processes that has been going on for many years, now hitting a whole new level. Another is…