A data-propelled tendency for economic concentration and the policy deficits that have fueled the rise of Big Tech companies have brought to the fore a critical realization – market power is coterminous with data power and the entrenched control of Big Tech over the data value chains is at the…
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We are delighted to invite you to the 2023 edition of the School of Feminist Economics on Feminist Digital Justice, being conducted virtually from 5-7 September 2023.
Hosted by DAWN in collaboration with IT for Change,…
Anita Gurumurthy was invited to the stakeholder consultation workshop on ‘Understanding and Improving Women's Work on Digital Labor Platforms’ organized by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on 27 July 2023 in New Delhi.
The International Labour…
Anita Gurumurthy, Khawla Zainab, and Sadhana Sanjay conducted a study of Indian women workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) in the post-pandemic moment, and this research report extensively lays out its rationale, process, and findings. Through a qualitative study based on interviews with AMT…
India has been experiencing a rapid increase in privately-held wealth relative to public wealth, together with rising unemployment and inflation, and declining wages and government investment in welfare programs. This has resulted in growing inequality in terms of wealth and income. This trend…
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)…
As part of a knowledge partnership exercise between LabourNet Services and IT for Change under the ‘Re-wiring India's Digitalising Economy for Women's Rights and Well-being…
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'…
UNESCO has released its initial draft proposal of the ‘…
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.