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Anita Gurumurthy took part in a conference titled, ‘Building Trust in Digital Identities – Leveraging the Power of Technology, Policy, and Digital Cooperation’, organized by EPFL and Geneva Internet Platform on 31 May 2023.

The conference aimed to…

IT for Change submitted its inputs to the public consultation organized by the Rajasthan government on its proposed Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Bill, 2023. The Bill is one of the first to create a fund for guaranteeing social security benefits to platform-…

IT for Change participated in the call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur, in order to inform the report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism on online hate speech to 78th session…

Ranjitha Kumar will be attending the ILO’s 8th Regulating Decent Work Conference in Geneva. During the three-day conference, along with SEWA’s Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur, Ranjitha will be making a presentation on a research study titled, ‘Re-imagining the Platform Firm…

Over the past two years, there have been concerning instances of excess and malpractice by Big Tech, leading to serious social, political, and economic consequences. These include data extractivism, increased worker precarity, setbacks in gender justice, the domination of developing countries'…

IT for Change members will take part in a hybrid international conference on ‘Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor and Social Reproduction’ on 27 June 2023. The conference will be co-organized by the Platform Labor project and the Global Digital Cultures initiative in Amsterdam.

The…

On 14 June 2023, taking part in their fourth consultation on the Global Digital Compact, Viraj Desai shared a few comments on governance of digital commons, on behalf of IT for Change.

The Global…

Shifting macro-level trends are restructuring the conditions under which platforms have operated for long, and are redetermining their actions and choices. Furthermore, a shrinking financial and tightening legislative landscape has created significant roadblocks for the growth-first model that…

JustJobs Network recently published the report, 'Empowerment or Exploitation: Global Perspectives on Women's Work in the Platform Economy', which examines the impact of the platform economy on women's work experiences. The report features a collection of essays from various economies,…

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Twitter, the social-networking platform which serves as a socio-political barometer, was recently purchased by Elon Musk, owner of Tesla. Musk has fired 50% of Twitter staff, toyed with its policies on registration and posts, making it an oligarch’s…

This impact study conducted by Centre for Social Initiative & Management (CSIM)…

Anita Gurumurthy spoke at a panel discussion on 'Making Digital Liveable: The Social Economy and the Digital Age' at the OECD Social Economy Summit on 21 March 2023.

The high-level conference, Inspiration, innovation…

Continuing our engagement with UNESCO's effort to formulate a set of ‘Guidelines for Regulating Digital Platforms’ to safeguard freedom of expression and access to information, IT for Change provided comments and recommendations on the Draft 2.0 of the Guidelines. We commend the second draft of…

Shreya Bali has been invited to speak at the virtual conference, ‘Corporate Charcha 2023’, organized by Symbiosis Center for Information Technology on 26 February 2023 at 10 AM IST. Shreya will be speaking on the topic, ‘Datafication: A New Paradigm…

As part of IT for Change’s ‘Recognize-Resist-Remedy’ project, supported by IDRC (Canada), the World Wide Web…

Digital capitalism is characterized by the rise of a unique business model: the platform firm, which leverages the combined force of internet connectivity and algorithmic intelligence to build a new infrastructural basis for production, market exchange, and a host of socio-economic interactions…

Over the past two years, there have been concerning instances of excess and malpractice by Big Tech, leading to serious social, political, and economic consequences. These include data extractivism, increased worker precarity, setbacks in gender justice, the domination of developing countries'…

IT for Change, Public Services International (Asia & Pacific), and Third World Network request your endorsement of this statement rejecting pinkwashing in the IPEF

We are planning to release this statement on 13 December 2022, at the first…

Gurumurthy Kasinathan has been invited to take part in Digital Delhi Conclave, 2022 being organized by IIIT-Delhi on 3 December. The conclave will be held at the university’s campus and will begin at 9.30 AM IST. This year’s theme for the…

IT for Change participated in the regional consultations held by the UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Opinion and co-organized by the Association of Progressive Communications on 4th and 5th October 2022. This was a follow-up on the Special Rapporteur's seminal…

Anita Gurumurthy will be attending the 'Roundtable Discussion on Developing Legislative Interventions for On-Demand Platform Work in India',  organized by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and FES. The event will be held at Bangalore International Centre, 9.30 am onwards. 

IT for Change was invited to present an expert paper at the Expert Group Meeting convened by UN Women in preparation for CSW 67, with its priority theme of “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and…

Anita Gurumurthy will be taking part in the conference ‘Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South’ hosted by Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Institute for Technology and Society. The conference will be held from November…

The question of decent work for the platform economy is one of significance, in light of the millions of workers engaged in online web-based or location-based services globally.  The ILO meeting of experts on Decent Work in the Platform Economy has outlined a detailed list of considerations to…

Anita Gurumurthy participated at the launch of “Global Manifesto for Fairer Platform Work” published by Fairwork. In anticipation of the…

Oversight Board is an external, independent body created by Meta that people can appeal to if they disagree with Meta’s content enforcement decisions on Facebook or Instagram. Out of the appeals it receives, the Case Selection Committee of the Board will select the cases that the Board will hear…