Advocacy statements

IT for Change joined with Privacy International, Human Rights Watch, Derechos Digitales, TEDIC in a group of more than 30 civil society organisations and labour unions in endorsing the call for the International Labour Organization (ILO) to adopt a binding Convention supplemented by a Recommendation to secure decent work in the platform economy…

IT for Change endorses the joint statement on the WSIS+20 review from Global South organizations, led by the Tech Global Institute.  

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) articulated a vision for people-centered, development-driven, and inclusive digital governance. Yet today, that vision is increasingly undermined by…

IT for Change, as part of the  Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) invites you to endorse its  Call to Action for WSIS+20 and Beyond. 

In response to the call for inputs by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), IT for Change made a submission detailing the priorities and expectations from the WSIS +20 happening this year. A high-level meeting will take place in June 2025 to review the overall implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information…

IT for Change responded to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”) sub-committee’s Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development. Our comments largely addressed the need to…

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 Principal:

The Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) welcomes and commends the recent joint statement issued on 26 February by the Presidents of Chile, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay, titled ‘Commitment to Democracy and Global Governance’. This landmark declaration recognizes the urgent need for “joint actions to address…

The Global Digital Justice Forum requests your endorsement of this statement that challenges the deep nexus between American Big Tech and the US state. In a world of increasing inequality, digital spaces are being weaponized—threatening democracy, human rights, and ecological justice. We refuse a digital order dictated by greed and control.…

In response to the call for inputs by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), IT for Change and the undersigned civil society organizations, who are part of the Global Digital Justice Forum, welcome the opportunity to contribute to the thematic report on, ‘The Use of Artificial Intelligence and the UNGPs’.…

Along with a coalition of CSOs IT for Change contributed to a submission to the European Competition Commission urging it to investigate the Nvidia/Run:ai merger. The group expressed concerns that the merger would help Nvidia reinforce its super-dominance in the supply of advanced GPUs by integrating Run:ai software to build an additional…