IT for Change (ITfC) organised two panels at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held in November 2009, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The overall theme of IGF 2009 was 'Internet…
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This paper frames a critique of India's existing e-governance programme in the context of a market-driven and efficiency enhancing approach. This narrow guiding vision occurs…
IT for Change (ITfC) submitted a solicited paper on the role of Common Services Centres (CSCs) to the e-governance division of the Department of Information Technology of the…
IT for Change (ITfC) was part of a seminar at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, organised by the BRIDGE team, on Gender and Governance on May 1, 2009…
MHRD released a draft note on 'Public Private Partnership in school education' in October 2009.
The note made several assumptions about the inherent superiority of the private sector, and…
Paper presented for the Commission on Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues of the World IT Forum (WITFOR). The presentation emphasises the gender gap not just in terms of connectivity to the internet,…
This paper was written for Plan International's Annual Report, entitled 'Because I am a Girl'. For girls and young women, especially in the global south, ICT access and its effective use provide…
Anita Gurumurthy wrote a note for the Sakhi-Jagori Consultation on 'New technologies and new forms of violence against women and girls' that took place in Trivandrum (Kerala,…
ICT programmes in schools in India have largely failed to achieve their goals of positively impacting learning processes and outcomes in schools. Implemented usually through '…
In 2009, IT for Change(ITfC) submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) regarding the imminent…