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Increasing digitalisation has spawned a system-wide disruption resulting in a reorganisation of production on a global to local scale. This is evident in both traditional value chains and in newer forms of work organisation, like platform work, cloud work, microwork and…

Globally, there is recognition that decent work in platform workplaces is predicated on legal guarantees for fair algorithmic management, ensuring equitable outcomes for workers. Unfortunately, India currently lacks a regulatory framework to protect gig workers from rights violations stemming…

IT for Change and Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC), along with Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC) co-organized the conference, ‘Roots of Resilience…

IT for Change and Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC), along with Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC) co-organized the conference, ‘…

IT for Change submitted an input to the UN Human Rights B-Tech project in response to its call for inputs on gender, digital tech, and the role of business, using the lens of the United Nations Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) applied from a gender perspective. In our…

We're co-organizing a Day '0' pre-event for IGF 2023 in Kyoto titled "A Global Compact for Digital Justice: Southern Perspectives," in collaboration with the Global Digital Justice Forum, Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility, and Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles.…

Ranjitha Kumar was invited to speak at a workshop on 'Examining Approaches to Worker Led Governance of Data and AI…

Nandini Chami has been invited to take part in a panel discussion on ‘Status and Rights of Platform and Gig Workers: Evidence from India’ that will be conducted on 10 October 2023 at 5 PM IST. The discussion is being organized by …

In the May 2023 meeting of the Regulatory Working Group of the Coalition against Online Violence, Malavika Rajkumar and Merrin Muhammed Ashraf presented comments on the 2018 UNHRC Resolution on Violence against Women and…

Tech titans are fostering new forms of digital colonialism, both within wealthy countries and on the global stage. But it’s not too late to build a digital economy that works for everyone.

The digital economy is not working.

Democracy, freedom, and prosperity were the…

We are delighted to share that the 2023 edition of the School of Feminist Economics on Feminist Digital Justice will be conducted virtually from 5-7 September 2023.

The School of Feminist Economics (SFE) was born in 2018, and since then has built a…

The public release of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot by OpenAI, in November 2022, percolated the public consciousness with the disruptive potential, both incredible and iniquitous, of emerging general purpose AI technologies. In the following months, AI has dominated the public discourse and…

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…

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…

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.