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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.
IT for Change was invited to present an expert paper at the Expert Group Meeting convened by UN Women in preparation for CSW 67, with its priority theme of “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and…
Anita Gurumurthy will be taking part in the conference ‘Owning the Future: Sustainably Scaling Platform Cooperatives With the Global South’ hosted by Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Institute for Technology and Society. The conference will be held from November…
The question of decent work for the platform economy is one of significance, in light of the millions of workers engaged in online web-based or location-based services globally. The ILO meeting of experts on Decent Work in the Platform Economy has outlined a detailed list of considerations to…
Anita Gurumurthy participated at the launch of “Global Manifesto for Fairer Platform Work” published by Fairwork. In anticipation of the…
Oversight Board is an external, independent body created by Meta that people can appeal to if they disagree with Meta’s content enforcement decisions on Facebook or Instagram. Out of the appeals it receives, the Case Selection Committee of the Board will select the cases that the Board will hear…
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…
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…