Our Director and Lead - Education and Technology, Gurumurthy Kasinathan, was invited as an expert to speak on the risks of platformization in higher education in a…
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IT for Change submitted its feedback/comments on the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (DPDP Rules) released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The key points of our feedback are outlined below.
1. Notice given by Data Fiduciary to Data…
Instead of flexi-work and increased labor participation for women, the platform economy has deepened intersectional inequalities—of gender, class, geography, and race—making women workers more vulnerable. At the Beijing+30 conjuncture, we urgently need multi-…
Some members of the Global Digital Justice Forum—IT for Change, APC, Global Partners Digital, Derechos Digitales, and Media Monitoring Africa—collectively prepared a submission in response to a UN survey to identify the terms of reference…
With support from the Permanent Mission of Germany, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, DAWN, and ITUC, IT for Change co-organized a formal CSW69 Side Event on "Gender Equality in the Platform Economy: Evolving a Policy Agenda for Beijing+30." The session took place on…
IT for Change was at RightsCon 2025 in Taipei (and online) from February 24-27, co-organizing key sessions on AI governance, digital trade, and labor rights alongside <A+> Alliance, and OECD Watch. As AI, digital trade, and platformization reshape economies and societies, we must…
The starting point of this paper is that the value extraction apparatus of digital labor platforms can be understood only by deploying a ‘reproductive lens’ and not through a exclusive focus on their algorithmic optimization strategies in mediating the labor marketplace. Rooted in an in-depth…
Anita Gurumurthy participated in Main Panel 3: Role of Multistakeholder Community to Build a Digitally Empowered India at India IGF 2024, held at the Bharat Mandapam Convention Center, New Delhi, on 10 December 2024.
The panel focused on…
On 22 September 2024, at the UN Summit of the Future, member states adopted the Global Digital Compact (GDC): a framework for multistakeholder digital cooperation at the global level that sets out objectives, principles, commitments and actions for “an inclusive, open, sustainable, fair, safe…
The Global Digital Compact upholds “gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and their full, equal and meaningful participation” as a core principle for digital cooperation [para 8(d)]. The extraordinary complexity of our times, which the digital phenomenon has only intensified…
IT for Change, with support from Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, is undertaking a project ‘Pathways to Gender Equality in the Platform Economy: Evolving a Policy Agenda for Beijing+30’, commencing in January 2025.
Belying initial optimism, platformization has…
Nandini Chami participated in the seminar Shaping the Future of Work: Strengthening Protections for Gig and Platform Workers in India, held on Saturday, November 16, 2024, at the Conference Hall, NLSIU.
Nandini was part of Panel 5: Algorithm and…
The CSET 2025 Bengaluru and New Delhi edition is one of many CSET 2025 events happening across the globe between February 17th and February 21st, 2025 in response to a call from Prof. Neil Selwyn, Faculty of…
IT for Change is excited to organize and participate in a diverse lineup of hybrid sessions at IGF 2024. The 19th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum takes place from 15-19 December 2024 in Riyadh. Find below a detailed list of our sessions and register for IGF 2024 to join us!
…Why do micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) struggle with using digital marketplaces such as Amazon or Facebook for their operations? How can we make digital marketplaces more advantageous for smaller players? In this blogpost, I reflect on some of the key findings of a study that I…
As part of the second edition of the National Gender Fellowship, the Bengaluru Institute facilitated an opportunity for all the Fellows to come together and learn from prominent practitioners on issues of gender in the digital economy. Over two days, the participants had the chance to refine…
This report explores the digitalization of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India's agriculture and allied sectors, focusing on how these enterprises are navigating the evolving digital landscape. MSMEs are a critical part of the Indian economy, contributing significantly to…
In this project, IT for Change, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and country partners unpack how micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) participation in the global economy is increasingly shaped by the rapid deployment of digital technologies, as well as the mediating impact of…
IT for Change is pleased to announce the call for applications for the second edition of its residential institute on ‘Frontiers and Frames for a New Digitality,’ organized by the School of Digital Justice, IT for Change and supported by the Fair, Green and Global Alliance.…
Anita Gurumurthy has been invited to participate in the Data Privacy Global Conference 2024, being organized by Data Privacy Brasil from 25-26 November 2024. The conference will be held in São Paulo.
The event aims to provide a platform…
Malavika Rajkumar participated in a workshop titled, ‘The Governance of Digital Platforms: Emerging Trends & Good Practices,’ in Kathmandu, Nepal on 14 September 2024. The workshop was organized by UNESCO in collaboration with Nepal'…
The Regional Institute of English, South India (RIESI) and IT for Change (ITfC) have been collaborating since 2018 on several projects related to integration of digital technologies into English Language Teaching (ELT). In 2023-24, ITfC conducted sessions on ‘Krashens…
Sadhana Sanjay conducted a session on ‘ILO Proposed Instrument and Barriers in Digital Trade Rules’ at the Unions for Trade Justice Campaign Workshop held in Quezon City (Metro Manila) from 19-20 August 2024. The workshop was organized by Public Services…
Workers in India's platform economy have been working in gruelling conditions for several years, in the absence of fundamental labor rights, such as access to welfare, redressal for occupational harms, and the right to collective bargaining. Simultaneously, the platform economy has also created…
IT for Change is pleased to announce the second edition of its National Gender Fellowship under the project, ‘Re-wiring India’s Digitalising Economy for Women’s Rights and Well-being,’ supported by the European…
Our Research Associate, Ranjitha Kumar, authored a paper titled, ‘Realising Data Cooperatives in the Digital Epoch: SEWA’s Journey to Reclaim Agri-Value Chains’ for the sixth issue of COOP Dialogue on Positioning Cooperatives in the Gig and Platform Economy…
IT for Change participated in the 32nd International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Annual Conference in Rome from 3-5 July 2024. The theme of the conference was - Caught Between the Digital Revolution and a Crisis of Democracy: Feminist Economics…
“I had always felt conscious about my pimples and dark skin. I never thought I looked good,” admitted Pooja,* a Class 9 student in a government high school in Mysuru.
Pooja is part of her school’s ‘Kishori Club’—a safe space established exclusively for adolescent girls. During a Kishori…
IT for Change played an active role in the T20 engagement group of G20 Brazil 2024, promoting a digital paradigm that emphasizes justice, fairness, and equity in June 2024. Below, you will find detailed information about the various aspects of our participation.
Leadership Role…
As the UN Secretary-General observed in 2023, the crisis of information integrity on digital platforms cannot be addressed without effectively tackling the role of platforms in spreading “gender-based hate speech and disinformation that seek to systematically subjugate women by silencing them…