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Our Executive Director, Anita Gurumurthy, has been recognized by MIT Sloan Management Review as part of the AI50: Leaders Shaping India’s AI Future. This list maps 50 individuals for their influence, technical depth…

ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಶಾಲಾ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಇಲಾಖೆ ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ಆರ್ಟಿಫಿಶಿಯಲ್ ಇಂಟೆಲಿಜೆನ್ಸ್ (AI) ಹಾಗು ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ಆಧಾರಿತ ಮುಖ ಗುರುತಿಸುವಿಕೆ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯೊಂದನ್ನು (Facial Recognition System) ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಅನುದಾನಿತ ಶಾಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಜಾರಿಗೆ ತರುವುದಾಗಿ ಘೋಷಿಸಿದೆ. ಈ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಬಳಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ SATSಗೆ ಜೋಡಣೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಶಾಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಜರಾತಿ, ಹಾಗು, ಬಿಸಿ ಊಟದಂತಹ…

I wear a mask. Not like the crime-fighting vigilante Batman but like a self-conscious child at a fancy dress competition, trying to fit in. The mask becomes stark in June, Pride Month, which also marks the beginning of the school academic year. Over weekends, I plunge into community…

At the 2026 AI Impact Summit, everyone—from tech companies and industry lobbies to policymakers and researchers—spoke about building equitable AI systems and a future where  AI is a public good. What was missing, however, was evidence, specifics, and communities themselves. 

AI regulation falls into the larger arc of India’s approach…

On 22 September 2024, at the UN Summit of the Future, member states adopted the Global Digital Compact (GDC): a framework for multistakeholder digital cooperation at the global level that sets out objectives, principles, commitments and actions for “an inclusive, open, sustainable, fair, safe and secure digital future for all.” The origins of…

The Global Digital Compact upholds “gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and their full, equal and meaningful participation” as a core principle for digital cooperation [para 8(d)]. The extraordinary complexity of our times, which the digital phenomenon has only intensified, requires us to unpack this aspirational goal by…

Why do micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) struggle with using digital marketplaces such as Amazon or Facebook for their operations? How can we make digital marketplaces more advantageous for smaller players? In this blogpost, I reflect on some of the key findings of a study that I conducted titled “Beyond platform integration –…

Can 'digitally facilitated' writing enable teachers to develop themselves as academic writers? This was the question that an IT for Change team attempted to answer through a 'Writing workshop for government school teachers'. The teachers' response was unequivocal. Thirteen of them wrote a paper based on an innovation…

Do we have the skills and mindsets that help us navigate the internet? What is digital citizenship? Why is digital literacy the need of the hour? Is social media a double-edged sword? These questions and more, are explored by Soorya Hariharan (Sr Coordinator, Training…

The Global Digital Justice Forum, of which IT for Change acts as the secretariat, has issued a rejoinder to the open letter from tech community leaders and internet innovators to the United Nations, expressing their reservations that the draft text of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) being negotiated by governments may “mandate more centralized…