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IT for Change

An India-based NGO working on information society theory and practice from the standpoint of equity and social justice.


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Upcoming event: Final meeting of the CITIGEN Asia research network!

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De-constructing dominant approaches and concepts in relation to ICTs and development and articulating alternatives

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Interrogating dominant ICT models and providing avenues for equitable and progressive policy interventions and models of practice

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Building theoretical frameworks that bring together gender and citizenship in the information society through field projects

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Using ICTs to shape participatory and collaborative processes of learning and teacher development

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Examining the role of new technology paradigms in opening up novel opportunities for deepening democracy

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Partnering with the community and grassroots organisations for collaborative networking through information sharing and generation using ICTs

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Education

Note for CABE Meeting March 18 2011 - Why ICTs in education programs fail or succeed and implications for policy?

Based on our advocacy work relating to NPISE, the issue of 'vendor driven ICT programs' was discussed in the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) and a sub-committee was setup to study the issue.

Development and IS


IT for Change at EADI/DSA 2011 General Conference on 'Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty'

IT for Change organised a panel with IKME at the EADI/DSA General Conference on 'Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty'...

Governance


'Task Force for the Effective Implementation of Section 4 of the RTI Act' - IT for Change at the National level consultation workshop

IT for Change was one of the five civil society members of the 'Task Force for the Effective Implementation of Section 4 of the RTI Act' constituted by Department of Personal and...

Technology Governance


IBSA Multistakeholder meeting on Global Internet Governance - September 2011, Rio de janiero, Brazil

Government representatives of the three IBSA countries asked for creating a new UN agency for looking into global Internet governance issues in a paper that came to be known as Rio Recommendations. In this context...

Recent Blog Posts

This is a response to Vinton G. Cerf's article on 'Internet Access is Not a Human Right' Two (very different) kinds of people have opposed terming access to the...
To take recourse to the comfort of clichés, it can be easily said that we live in extremely interesting times. If there is one thing here that the spot light must not...
Chloé Zollman and Arpita Joshi had the opportunity to attend and participate in the Mobile Plus- International Conference on Inclusive Growth through Mobile Applications...
The last day of the State Master trainer's Social Science workshop saw an interesting discussion emerging out of the presentation of the local government. One participant...
Last week, I attended my first class at Government Model Primary School (GMPS) Puttenahalli. Mary Shyla, one of our English teachers was taking an English class on Demonstrative...

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