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…
Twenty years ago, the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) set the framework for global digital cooperation with a vision to cultivate people-centric, inclusive, and development-oriented information and knowledge societies. The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event 2024…
IT for Change, in collaboration with the Centre for Labour Studies, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, presented to the Karnataka government a memo on creating a government-supported ride-hailing platform in the state. The memo focused on the issues and challenges faced by new…
Anita Gurumurthy was invited to take part in a workshop on ‘Social and Solidarity Economy for Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia’ organized by the International Labour Organization from 18-19 June 2024.
Anita participated in a panel on ‘…
AI and digitalization have become topics of everyday discussion and debate, but what are their implications for activists fighting for social and environmental justice? To explore this, the Transnational Institute (TNI) organized a six-week course from April to May 2024 analyzing what is digital…
The UN SDG Action Campaign hosted the Civil Society Strategic and Networking Meeting from 20-21 March 2024 at the UN in Bonn which provided a dialogue space for civil society, UN representatives, and the co-facilitators of the Summit of the Future to share views…
Nandini Chami has been invited to participate in a webinar titled, ‘What kind of multilateralism and global governance do we want?’ to speak on the Global Digital Compact. The webinar is being organized by the People's Working Group on Multistakeholderism on 16 May 2024…
The Global Digital Compact (GDC) is a framework for international digital cooperation that…
The Global Digital Justice Forum responded to the Joint Questionnaire for CSTD's 20-year review of the World Summit on Information Society implementation. The submission focused on the fact that instead of the vision of "people-centered, inclusive and development oriented" future, the digital…
IT for Change’s Viraj Desai and Ranjitha Kumar participated in Design Beku’s Future Pathways Workshop, held between 27 - 26 February 2024 in Tamil Nadu, India. This workshop represents the culmination of Design Beku's research intervention in the Vrutti fieldsite for our project, ‘…
IT for Change’s Director, Gurumurthy Kasinathan, was one of the speakers in a masterclass, as part of the Transnational Institute's online course about Digital Capitalism. Designed especially for activists, the course is an introduction to key aspects of digital capitalism.
He spoke about…
IT for Change’s Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami will be participating in the 64th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics, to be held in Hyderabad between 29-31 March 2024.
At 9:00 AM on 30 March, Anita will be present in the capacity of a discussant in a technical…
The United Nations invited IT for Change to take part in a virtual global consultation to develop a UN Code of Conduct for Information Integrity. We were one of 20 organizations that took part in the event and Anita Gurumurthy represented IT for Change. The event was hosted virtually on …
This baseline report, conducted as part of IT for Change’s broader partnership with LabourNet under the ‘Re-wiring India's Digitalising Economy for Women's Rights and Well-…
Digital labour platforms function in markets through “matching…the supply of and demand for paid work through an online platform”. One of the major ways in which…
The third edition of the India Internet Governance Forum was held in New Delhi on 5 December 2023. The theme of the forum this year was ‘Moving Forward: Calibrating Bharat’s Digital Agenda’.
Anita Gurumurthy took part in the event, where she highlighted…
Accelerating Bharat's Digital Agenda is about addressing two critical divides -- the digital divide in meaningful access, and the development divide in the data paradigm…
The United Nations is developing a code of conduct for information integrity on digital platforms in close consultation with a broad range of civil society groups. The objective is to establish a gold standard guiding actions to strengthen information integrity while vigorously protecting human…