Directors

Gurumurthy Kasinathan

Director

ACA, MCom. (Management), BCom. (Accountancy and Audit), GCD.

Gurumurthy Kasinathan is Founder and Director of "IT for Change", a NGO based in Bangalore India. He works on program, research and advocacy aspects in the domains of Education, Public Software and Internet Governance at IT for Change. He has led research to study ICT programs in schools, in Kerala and Karnataka states and the work of the Regional Resource Centre component of the University School Resource Network (USRN) of Delhi University.

Parminder Jeet Singh

Executive Director

Paraminder Jeet Singh

Parminder worked for nearly a decade in the government, where he initiated innovative e-governance projects. During this time, in 2001, he co-authored the book, “Government@Net: E-governance opportunities for India” (Sage Publications). He was invited to do a research study at the INSEAD Business School in France on ‘New ICTs for community and governance institutions'. Subsequently, he has worked with many ICTD field projects, as well as in policy research and advocacy related to information society issues.

Anita Gurumurthy

Executive Director

Anita Anita Gurumurthy is a founding member and executive director of IT for Change (www.ITforChange.net), an India-based NGO engaged in policy research and advocacy on ICTD. Anita's academic work has been in the areas of gender, public health, globalisation and the information society. She has written extensively on gender and ICTD from a Southern perspective, interrogating the construction of the mainstream discourse on social justice and equity. Anita’s earlier work has included research and writing on the qualitative indicators of women’s empowerment and policy research on reproductive health and rights of women. Her research on private-public partnerships in the health sector in India has been a significant addition to the body of critical work on the emerging public policy area.