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Between 2005-2010, with support from UNDP, IT for Change worked towards strengthening the collective learning-action processes of over 200 marginalised rural women’s collectives of the Mahila Samakhya programme in Mysore district, Karnataka, India. The project used a three-pronged ICT strategy comprising community radio, community video and women-run community telecentres.

Between 2012-14, IT for Change’s field centre Prakriye partnered with Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan and ANANDI – grassroots women’s rights organisations in Gujarat – to build an ICT-enabled model for women’s political empowerment and gender-responsive local governance. This project was supported by UN Women Fund for Gender Equality.

Between 2015-2017, IT for Change actively engaged in a series of consultations convened by TRAI, on regulation of Over-the-Top services, differential pricing of data, and core principles of net neutrality in the Indian context. Our interventions called for Internet egalitarianism to be seen as the key value underpinning net neutrality –  instead of free market principles or a narrow focus on just the right to free expression.

The Centre for Education and Technology, seeks to build participatory and emancipatory teacher education and school development models, in partnership with public education systems. Our field projects integrate digital technologies for creating and collaborating for learning. Our research focuses on collaborative OER models embedded in professional learning communities of teachers using free and open technologies.

IT for Change is part of the SIRCA III (2015-17) programme of the International Development Research Centre, Canada that seeks to develop cross-cutting theoretical frameworks and a research agenda in the  emerging field of open development. Our contribution to the programme analyses the normative flux induced by technical ‘openness’, as development organisations adopt ICTs.

In April 2017, with support from the International Development Research Centre, Canada, IT for Change initiated a multi-country research study to map the key issues/concerns for the rights and inclusion agenda, stemming from pervasive platformisation. Through a detailed analysis of digital platforms, the project seeks to garner insights about key policy implications on access to data, competition, economic opportunity, and innovation.

IT for Change has been actively engaging with the debate on privacy and data protection in India, that has gained traction in the context of the unique citizen ID/ Aadhaar project of the government. Through our media articles, we have emphasised the public value of privacy, and foregrounded the importance of framing privacy as a 'positive' right.