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India's report for the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development's Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (WGIIGF)

IT for Change
Research Papers and Reports

IT for Change helped prepare India's report for the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development's Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (WGIIGF). The report has some concrete set of IGF reform proposals and helped shape the...

IT for Change participation in UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development's Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (WGIIGF)

IT for Change
Research Papers and Reports

IT for Change participated as one of the five civil society members of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development's Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (WGIIGF). IT for Change submitted two input papers arguing that processes...

'Network publics as digital futures' - presentation at 'Conference on Digital Technologies for 21st Century Democracy' by Club De Madrid in New York

Anita
Presentations

Anita Gurumurthy made a presentation on Network publics at 'Conference on Digital Technologies for 21st Century Democracy' by Club De Madrid in New York (USA). The presentation titled 'Network publics as digital futures' questioned the nature of a global network public that can...

Presentation made by Gurumurthy Kasinathan at NUEPA in a workshop for Education Secretaries, on guidelines for ICT@School program - December 2011

Gurumurthy Kasinathan
Presentations

The presentation discusses the key challenges facing teacher education and the need to evolve new models of teacher education...

Presentation made by Gurumurthy Kasinathan at NCERT in a workshop for Education Secretaries, on guidelines for ICT@School program - October 2011

Gurumurthy Kasinathan
Presentations

The presentation explains the need for state governments to move from 'first generation programs' where students only learn word, notepad, paint etc,...

Input paper by IT for Change for the IBSA seminar on Global Internet Governance

IT for Change
Working Papers

IT for Change wrote a paper titled 'A development agenda in Internet Governance - Outlining global public policy issues and exploring new institutional options' for the IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) seminar on global Internet Governance that took place on 1-2 September 2011 at...

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

Gurumurthy Kasinathan
Advocacy Statements

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.

Comments on the Final Report of the Research Project 'Mediating Voices and Communicating Realities – Using Information Crowdsourcing Tools, Open Data Initiatives and Digital Media to Support and Protect the Vulnerable and Marginalised' by Evangelia Berdou

Parminder Jeet Singh, Anita Gurumurthy
Commentaries

What ICTs can do for gender responsive service delivery. UN Women workshop

Anita Gurumurthy
Presentations

Anita Gurumurthy attended the UNWomen workshop on 'Leading Innovations for Gender Responsible Service Delivery' at Dar-es Salam, Tanzania (21-22 June...

Submission to the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development

Parminder Jeet Singh
Position papers

IT for Change (ITfC) was one among five civil society organisations invited to make submissions before the Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (WG-IGF) of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology Development (UNCSTD), in January 2011...

Policy on ICTs for a public institution

IT for Change
Policy Documents

The work of public institutions leads to continuous creation of knowledge, but such knowledge often remains with specific individuals or institutions. This policy brief argues for sharing of such individual knowledge across the institution, and sharing of institutional knowledge across...

Responding to the learning and developmental needs of out-of-school adolescents

Gurumurthy Kasinathan, Aparna Kalley, Chinmayi Arakali, Krupa Thimmaiah and Madhavi Jha
Notes from the Field

This paper is a response to a call for papers on "Responding to the learning and developmental needs of out-of-school adolescents - Experiences of South Asian countries" by the gender...

Note on policy for teacher professional development

Gurumurthy Kasinathan
Policy Documents

IT for Change has been working in the area of ICTs and education, at the levels of research, capacity building and pilot programme. Based on our work, this note exposes ways in which ICTs could be used as an integral part of the education system...

Teachers' Communities of Learning project, 2010-2011

IT for Change
Project Frameworks

IT for Change (ITfC), along with the Department of State Research Education and Training (DSERT), and Policy Planning Unit (PPU) and Development Focus (DF) (a...

Understanding gender in a digitally transformed world

Anita Gurumurthy
Think-pieces

Beyond the widespread economic and access-centred approach to ICTs, this think piece addresses the need to think about ICTs as a social phenomenon which impacts each of us, whether we actively use ICTs or not. ICTs have an important emancipatory potential for marginalised...

Gender equality and the knowledge society. International conference on 'Gender Equity Policies - New Scenarios, Actors and Articulations'

Anita Gurumurthy
Presentations

Anita Gurumurthy's presentation at the conference on 'Gender Equity Policies - New Scenarios, Actors and Articulations' (Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2010) asked...

A seminar on ICT and gender violence: Logging into (in)security

Chloe Zollman
Presentations

On 10 December 2010, IT for Change was part of the panel on 'Logging into (in)security: a seminar on ICT and gender violence' which was held in Chennai (India) and closed...

Mahiti Manthana - Reimagining a women's empowerment programme through digital technologies

Anita Gurumurthy, Parminder Jeet Singh, Aparna Kalley, Chinmayi Arakali and Krupa Thimmaiah
Think-pieces

This article looks back at the Mahiti Manthana project, a joint project of IT for Change and Mahila Samakhya Karnataka which explores how women's mobilisation and organising processes can be strengthened through new Information and Communication...

Advocacy for a progressive national e-governance standards policy

IT for Change
Advocacy Statements

IT for Change (ITfC) played an important role in campaigning efforts to bring to the Government of India's notice that the use of non-royalty-based open standards in e-governance are basic to ensuring people's right to information in a digital age.

A policy framework for community telecentres in India - Building on the experience of different projects

IT for Change
Policy Documents

India is known as an IT powerhouse but still has the largest number of poor people in any country in the world. India’s experience with policies for digital inclusion may thus offer some useful lessons for other developing countries. This policy brief looks at a range...

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