Our policy research and advocacy efforts in relation to the digital economy and data governance have focused on identifying appropriate directions for the governance of platforms, data, and AI technologies, from the standpoint of equity and social justice. In global and national policy dialogues, we have consistently articulated the rights of marginalized people and groups in the rapidly platformizing and datafying economy, underscoring the linkages between data justice and the right to development. Read more.

Exploring the intersections of digital rights debates with democratic politics, especially in post-colonial societies in the Global South, has been a constant focus of our research, advocacy, and field-building efforts. In times of data governmentality and the automated public sphere, building an inclusive democracy which furthers citizen voices and meaningful participation for those at the margins is what we strive towards. Read more.

Prakriye, our field resource centre, deploys the creative potential of information and communication technologies in furthering socio-political empowerment of marginalized rural women and adolescent girls and promoting gender-responsive local governance. In its efforts to evolve a radically new development praxis that brings power to the peripheries, the centre engages with rural women’s collectives, adolescent girls, male community leaders, local government institutions and community-based organizations in over 60 villages of Mysuru district, India. Read more.

IT for Change’s work in education focuses on demonstrating and maturing models of technology integration that strengthen teacher agency and school autonomy in public education systems. We work towards making classroom processes more democratic and participatory, and developing teacher networks and collaborative resource repositories. We also make efforts to inform education policy and discourse. Read more.

The feminist project of expanding women’s autonomy and overturning entrenched power hierarchies demands new strategies in these datafied times. Digital technologies have completely restructured society and its institutions. As data becomes the key artifact of power and control, feminism needs to stay ahead in its theory and practice. Our research, advocacy and networking efforts at global and national levels are directed towards this imperative, in order to promote gender justice in the digital society. Read more.