Parminder Jeet Singh took part in a workshop on “Trustworthy Data Spaces: A Dialogue between North and South” during the 2022 WTO Public Forum on 29 September. The workshop…
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Abstract : English language teachers articulate several reasons for their students not achieving competence in English communication. The socio-economic context of the learner, including the home environment, does not provide opportunities for English / second language…
Anita Gurumurthy participated at a session titled “Digital transition - Cooperative platforms have a future!” on 27 September 2022. The session was conducted as part of the Global…
In Solidarity is a SEWA Cooperative Federation podcast that explores themes relevant to women’s economic empowerment and challenges that women-owned, women-run enterprises face. In the first episode, titled The Great Gender Digital Divide, they are in conversation with Anita Gurumurthy, Founding…
In June 2022, the NITI Aayog published a research report Titled " India's Booming Gig and Platform Economy - Perspectives and Recommendations on the Future of Work", mapping the opportunities…
IT for Change is co-organizing a workshop on The Digital Ecosystem Opportunity for Indian Agriculture: Making the Right Choices, with Vrutti, and Sewa Cooperative Federation as part of it's EU funded project,…
Southern Centre for Inequality Studies is organizing a series of Future of Work(ers) Policy Dialogue. Anita Gurumurthy will be an expert speaker for the discussion on the 16th of August, 2022 on Emerging Forms of Worker Power in the Digital Economy.
They will be looking at how have…
IT for Change and InternetLab organized a two-day closed roundtable on Feminist Perspectives on Social Media Governance on April 19-20, 2022. This roundtable was part of our…
Uli is a browser plug-in, based on machine leaning and non-ML approaches, to help mitigate online gender and sexual abuse on Twitter in three Indian languages: Hindi, Tamil, and Indian English. UIi has been jointly produced by The Centre for Internet and Society and Tattle Civic Tech, with…
Italian conference about platform cooperativism which will take place on 13th May in Bologna, titled it "Cooperative Platforms: a lever for youth policies and the protection of new…
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. With an aim to increase platform accountability, the proposed amendments focus heavily on stemming the…
The National Education Policy, 2020 (NEP) begins with the assertion that education is fundamental for achieving full human potential, and for the development of an…
The Institute on Gender, Technology and Education organized by IT for Change with support from the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is conducting a short course for women professionals in higher education institutions in India. The course seeks to equip women professionals in higher education with…
The Access to Knowledge for Development (A2K4D) Center, in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) - Berlin and IT for Change, is hosting the closed virtual regional workshop on ‘Feminist Visions of the…
The context of society- and economy-wide platformization and an expanding spectrum of platform workplaces necessitates a re-think of labor rights at the intersection of data, data-enabled algorithms, and work process reorganization. This working paper takes stock of emerging debates in this…
IT for Change is hosting two exciting sessions at RightsCon 2022, happening virtually from June 6 to 10. To participate in these sessions, register for RightsCon 2022 now.
Filling the Legal Blanks: Access to Justice for LGBTQIA+ in…
We hosted a session at the 11th edition of RightsCon to discuss the current state of affairs and the future agenda for workers’ rights in the digital economy. The session was hosted as a community lab and was co-organized by IT for Change, Why Not Labs, and the ILO. The discussion focused on…
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It’s the end of an era for online activism. We have lost our safe, small, intimate spaces of…
IT for Change is hosting and participating in an exciting line up of sessions in this year's eCommerce week from 25th to 29th of April, 2022. Find a detailed list of our sessions below, and register for the…
IT for Change has always been at the forefront of southern-led and -centered digital and data policy. In a bid to further our commitment to democratizing discourse and perspective-building on digital justice, IT for Change is inviting applications for the debut cohort of its…
IT for Change undertook a research study of hateful, abusive and problematic speech on Twitter directed at 20 Indian women in public-political life. The mixed-method inquiry set out to investigate not only the scale, but also the nature of such pervasive online gendered violence.
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The Draft Data Accessibility and Use Policy is silent on the norms, rules, and mechanisms to bring to fruition its vision.
In February 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) released the…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world faster than the world can mitigate intensifying geopolitical divisions and socio-economic disparities. As technological change outpaces regulatory policy, no common platform has yet emerged to coordinate a variety of governance approaches…
Anita Gurumurthy was invited to speak at a policy dialogue on ‘Examining Platform, Data and AI Infrastructures’. The event was organized by the Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay on the 23rd of March, 2022.
Anita was part of a panel discussion on ‘…
The faster pace of digitalization during the pandemic has tended to increase gender injustice. Systemic analysis, respect for the rule of law and a solidarity-driven strategy are essential to create a digital future that will benefit women.
Techno-capitalism in the Pandemic and the Abyss…
Gurumurthy Kasinathan spoke to EPW engage about EdTech companies. While online education was once seen with doubt, Byju’s has reported consistent growth in users and the pandemic has given them a turbo boost. What are the implications of EdTech companies in changing how students learn and grow?…
This is the fifth issue paper of our Feminist Digital Justice project, written by Flora Partenio. This paper presents a feminist analysis of the tensions and disputes around the regulation of platform labor, particularly in the context of…
This paper discusses how the platform economy – dominated by a few firms – is extractivist, exploitative and expedient. It is based on an unsustainable model with scant regard for natural resources, and is built on the back of a global division of labor that bears the marks of race, class,…