Publications
Research papers, Book chapters and Reports from IT for Change
Gurumurthy, A. & Bharthur, D. (2020). Rebooting Indian Tourism in a Post-Covid Economy: A Policy Brief. IT for Change. Available at https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/add/Tourism%20Policy%20Brief.pdf
Gurumurthy, A. & Chami, N. (2020). Feminist Frames for a Brave New Digitality. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/11/02/feminist-frames-for-a-brave-new-digitality/
Gurumurthy, A. & Chami, N. (2020). ‘Institutional Listening: An Essential Principle for Democracy in Digital Times’. In Tacchi, J. & Tufte, T. (eds.) Communicating for Change: Concepts to Think With. Palgrave MacMillan. Available at: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030425128
Gurumurthy, A. & Chami, N. (2020). ‘Towards a Political Practice of Empowerment in Digital Times: A Feminist Commentary from the Global South’. In McGee, R. & Pettit, J. (eds.) Power, Empowerment and Social Change. Routledge. Available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781351272322/power-empowerment-social-change-rosemary-mcgee-jethro-pettit
Gurumurthy, A. & Chami, N. (2020). The Deal We Always Wanted: A Feminist Action Framework for the Digital Economy. FES. Available at: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/17008-20210902.pdf
Gurumurthy, A. & Chami, N. (2021). Draft Paper on Governing the Abstract Object of Data: Towards a Distributive Integrity Framework. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1741/ITfC-DRAFT-The-Abstract-Object-of-Data.pdf
Gurumurthy, A. (2020). ‘New Cartographies of the Digital Commons: Going by Feminist Wisdom’. In Jha, P., Kumar, A., & Mishra, Y. (eds.). Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India. Orient Blackswan. Available at: https://orientblackswan.com/details?id=9789390122073
Gurumurthy, A. (2021). A Feminist Future of Work in the Post-Pandemic Moment. Feminist Digital Justice. DAWN & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1787/Feminist%20Digital%20Justice%20Issue%20Paper%203_%20updated%20name%20and%20logo.pdf
Gurumurthy, A., Chami, N., & Sanjay, S. (2020). The Gig Is Up! Worker Rights for Digital Day Labour in India. FES India. Available at: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/indien/16516.pdf
Gurumurthy, A., Zainab, K., & Sanjay, S. (2021). The Macro Frames of Microwork: A Study of Indian Women Workers on AMT in the Post-Pandemic Moment. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1739/The-Macro-Frames-of-Microwork-Full-Report-ITfC-2021.pdf
Gurumurthy, A., Zainab, K., & Sanjay, S. (2021). The Macro Frames of Microwork: Indian Women Workers on AMT in the Post-Pandemic Moment. Economic and Political Weekly. Available at: https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/17/review-womens-studies/macro-frames-microwork.html
IT for Change. (2020). Participatory Action Research on Gender-Based Hate Speech Online with a Karnataka-Based Youth Group. IT for Change & Samvada. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1738/PAR-on-gender-based-hate-speech-online-with-a-Karnataka-based-youth-group.pdf
IT for Change. (2020). Working Paper 1 for Unskewing the Data Value Chain: A Policy Research Project for Equitable Platform Economies. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1740/IT%20for%20Change%20-%20Unskewing%20the%20Data%20Value%20Chain%20-%20Working%20Paper%201.pdf
Kasinathan, G. & Yogesh K. S. (2020). Integrating Wikis into Open and Distance Learning. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/integrating-wikis-into-open-and-distance-learning
Kasinathan, G. (2020). Arriving at the Right Platform for e-Learning. Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators, NCERT. Available at: https://itforchange.net/arriving-at-right-platform-for-e-learning
Kasinathan, G., Anand, D., & Karthik, K. (2021). Democratizing Translation Using Digital Methods. Language and Language Teaching, Azim Premji University. Available at: https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/SitePages/pdf/Language-and-Language-Teaching-19-issue-jan-2021.pdf
Mittal, A. (2020). Data Sharing of Non-Personal Data: A Plausible Redistribution at Play. Data Governance Network. Available at: https://datagovernance.org/files/research/1606791766.pdf
Mittal, A. (2020). Exploring the Constitutional Tenability of Data Sharing Policies. Data Governance Network. Available at: http://datagovernance.org/files/research/1604381845.pdf
Singh, P. J. & Gurumurthy, A. (2020). Data Sharing Requires a Data Commons Framework Law. Data Governance Network. Available at: https://datagovernance.org/files/research/Policy_Brief_02.pdf
Singh, P. J. & Gurumurthy, A. (2021). Economic Governance of Data Balancing Individualist-Property Approaches with a Community Rights Framework. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1880/Economic-governance-of-data.pdf
Singh, P. J. (2020). Breaking Up Big Tech: Separation of its Data, Cloud and Intelligence Layers. IT for Change. Available at: https://datagovernance.org/report/breaking-up-big-tech-separation-of-its-data-cloud-and-intelligence-layers
Singh, P. J. (2020). Economic Rights in a Data-Based Society: Collective Data Ownership, Workers’ Rights, and the Role of the Public Sector. IT for Change, Public Services International (PSI) & Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/add/Economic%20rights%20in%20a%20data%20based%20society.pdf
Singh, P. J., Gurumurthy, A., & Chami, N. (2021). ‘Open Institutions and their “Relevant Publics”: A Democratic Alternative to Neoliberal Openness’ in Critical Perspectives on Open Development: Empirical Interrogation of Theory Construction. IDRC. Available at: https://itforchange.net/open-institutions-and-their-relevant-publics-a-democratic-alternative-to-neoliberal-openness
IT for Change’s Campaigns and Inputs into Policy Processes
Global
IT for Change. (2020). Feminist Pathways to Digital Transformation Post-Pandemic – Some Considerations for BRICS at Countering the Effects of the Pandemic: Women’s Viewpoints. Available at: https://itforchange.net/feminist-pathways-to-digital-transformation-post-pandemic-%E2%80%93-some-considerations-for-brics
IT for Change. (2020). Feedback on the EU Consultation for the New Competition Tool and the Digital Services Act Package. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/add/ITfC%20response%20to%20questionnaire%20on%20New_Competition_Tool.pdf
IT for Change. (2020). Feedback to the EU’s Draft Data Governance Act, 2020. Available at: https://itforchange.net/detailed-input-EU-DGA
IT for Change. (2020). Science, Technology and Innovation Must Respond to the Global Need to End the Covid-19 Pandemic. APRCEM Science and Technology Constituency. Available at https://itforchange.net/APRCEM-statement-COVID19-pandemic
IT for Change. (2021). Submission to Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association. Available at: https://itforchange.net/submission-to-special-rapporteur-on-rights-to-freedom-of-peaceful-assembly-and-of-association
IT for Change. & Just Net Coalition. (2021). Over 170 Civil Society Groups Worldwide Oppose Plans for a Big Tech Dominated Body for Global Digital Governance. Available at: https://justnetcoalition.org/big-tech-governing-big-tech.pdf
National
IT for Change with Alliance of Labor Unions and Civil Society Organizations. (2020). Inputs to the Public Consultation on the Draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/add/Joint-Submission-to-the-Ministry-of-Labour-and-Employment-on-the-Code-on-Social-Security-Central-Rules-2020.pdf
IT for Change with Alliance of Labor Unions and Civil Society Organizations. (2020). Labor Law Must Recognize Platform Workers’ Rights. Available at: https://itforchange.net/labour-law-platform-workers-rights-data-digital-economy
IT for Change. (2020). Proposed Resolution on Technology and Surveillance. Janta Parliament. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/add/Resolution%20proposed%20by%20IT%20for%20Change%20to%20Janta%20Parliament%20Session.pdf
IT for Change. (2020). Cyberviolence Against Women – A Roadmap for Legal Reform: Inputs to the Law Review Consultation Convened by the National Commission for Women. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1738/NCW-Submission-on-cyberviolence-Dec-2020-IT%20for-Change.pdf
IT for Change. (2020). Recommendations Made to NITI Aayog on Covid-19: Impact on Women and Girls. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/add/IT%20for%20Change%20-%20Recommendations%20to%20Niti%20Aayog%20on%20Gender%20and%20COVID.pdf
IT for Change. (2020). Response to Public Consultation on the ‘Indian Artificial Intelligence Stack’ Released by the AI Standardization Committee, Department of Telecommunications. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/add/ITfC-submission-on-the-Indian-AI-Stack-Oct-2020.pdf
IT for Change. (2020). Response to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s Consultation White Paper on Strategy for National Open Digital Ecosystems (NODE). Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/add/Itfc-reponse-node-paper.pdf
IT for Change. (2020). Response to the Public Consultation on the Draft Health Data Management Policy. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/add/IT%20for%20Change%20-%20Comments%20on%20the%20draft%20Health%20Data%20Management%20Policy.pdf
IT for Change. (2020). Schools Must Reopen in a Phased Manner for Child Safety, Health and Development. Statement Issued by a Group of Educationists and Social Work Organizations. Available at: https://itforchange.net/press-release-schools-must-reopen-phased-gradual-manner-covid19
IT for Change. (2020). Submission on the Draft Amendment to Intermediary Guidelines Rules 2018 to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Available at: https://itforchange.Net/Submission-On-Draft-Amendment-To-Information-Technology-Intermediary-Guidelines-Rules-2018-Special
Papers and Analyses from IT for Change’s Projects
Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group). (2020). Food for All or Feeding the Data Colossus? The Future of Food in a Digital World. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/30/food-for-all-or-feeding-the-data-colossus-the-future-of-food-in-a-digital-world/
Bailey, R. & Bhandari, V. (2021). Towards Holistic Regulation of Online Hate Speech. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1883/Vrinda-Bhandari-and-Rishab-Bailey-Rethinking-Legal-Institutional-Approaches-to-Sexist-Hate-Speech-ITfC-IT-for-Change_0.pdf
Bhagwat, V. (2021). Combating Online Sexist Hate Speech: Identifying the Lacunae in Criminal Law. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1883/Vaishali-Bhagwat-Rethinking-Legal-Institutional-Approaches-to-Sexist-Hate-Speech-ITfC-IT-for-Change_0.pdf
Bhat, A. (2021). Decoding Law Enforcement Against Online Misogyny. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1883/Aparna-Bhat-Rethinking-Legal-Institutional-Approaches-to-Sexist-Hate-Speech-ITfC-IT-for-Change_0.pdf
Bissio, R. (2020). The Coming Shift in Internet Governance. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/29/the-coming-shift-in-internet-governance/
Causevic, A. & Sengupta, A. (2020). Whose Knowledge Is Online? Practices of Epistemic Justice for a Digital New Deal. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/30/whose-knowledge-is-online-practices-of-epistemic-justice-for-a-digital-new-deal/
Colclough, C. (2020). Towards Workers’ Data Collectives. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/22/towards-workers-data-collectives/
Hill, R. (2020). A New Convention for Data and Cyberspace. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/30/a-new-convention-for-data-and-cyberspace/
Hudson, M. (2020). Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Towards an Equitable and Inclusive Digital Future: A Conversation. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/11/01/indigenous-data-sovereignty-towards-an-equitable-and-inclusive-digital-future/
Iazzolino, G., Ouma, M. & Mann, L. (2021). A Digital New Deal Against Corporate Hijack of the Post-Covid 19 Future. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/29/a-digital-new-deal-against-corporate-hijack-of-the-post-covid-19-future/
Kak, A. (2020). Lessons From a Pandemic: Three Provocations for AI Governance. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/12/18/lessons-from-a-pandemic-three-provocations-for-ai-governance/
Kozul-Wright, R. (2020). How the Global South Can Rise to the Challenge of a Digital New Deal: A Conversation. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/11/01/how-the-global-south-can-rise-to-the-challenge-of-a-digital-new-deal/
Lappin, K. & Scasserra, S. (2020). (Re)imagining a Social Contract for Labor in the Digital World. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/30/reimagining-a-social-contract-for-labor-in-the-digital-world/
Milan, S. & Treré, E. (2020). Latin American Visions for a Digital New Deal: Towards Buen Vivir with Data. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2021/01/25/latin-american-visions-digital-new-deal-towards-buen-vivir-data/
Nappinai, N. S. (2021). Role of the Law in Combating Online Misogyny, Hate Speech and Violence Against Women and Girls. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1883/NS-Nappinai-Rethinking-Legal-Institutional-Approaches-To-Sexist-Hate-Speech-ITfC-IT-for-Change.pdf
Mukherjee, V. N. (2021). Can Digital Justice Meet Social Justice? Lessons from Kerala During the Pandemic (Issue Paper 4). Feminist Digital Justice. DAWN & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1620/FDJ-Issue-Paper-4-Can-Digital-Justice-Meet-Social-Justice-Lessons-From-Kerala-During-the-Pandemic-Vanita-Nayak-Mukherjee.pdf
Partenio, F. (2021). Growing e-Commerce and Diminishing Labor Rights: Platform Work in Argentina, 2020-2021 (Issue Paper 5). Feminist Digital Justice. DAWN & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1620/FDJ-5-Growing-e-Commerce-Diminishing-Labor-Rights-Flora-Partenio-English.pdf
Raghavan, A. (2021). Legislating an Absolute Liability Standard for Intermediaries for Gendered Cyber Abuse. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1883/Arti-Raghvan-Rethinking-Legal-Institutional-Approaches-to-Sexist-Hate-Speech-ITfC-IT-for-Change_0.pdf
Salim, M. (2021). How Women from Marginalized Communities Navigate Online Gendered Hate and Violence. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1883/Mariya-Salim-Rethinking-Legal-Institutional-Approaches-To-Sexist-Hate-Speech-ITfC-IT-for-Change.pdf
Sinha, A. (2020). Beyond Public Squares, Dumb Conduits, and Gatekeepers: The Need for a New Legal Metaphor for Social Media. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/11/01/beyond-public-squares-dumb-conduits-and-gatekeepers-the-need-for-a-new-legal-metaphor-for-social-media/
Sinha. A. (2021). Regulating Sexist Online Harassment: A Model of Online Harassment as a Form of Censorship. IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1883/Amber-Sinha-Rethinking-Legal-Institutional-Approaches-to-Sexist-Hate-Speech-ITfC-IT-for-Change_0.pdf
Soulard, F. (2020). A Westphalian Turning Point for the Digital. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/29/a-westphalian-turning-point-for-the-digital/
Tan, J. E. (2020). Imagining the AI We Want: Towards a New AI Constitutionalism. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/11/01/imagining-the-ai-we-want-towards-ai-constitutionalism/
Valente, M. & Fragoso, N. (2020). Data Rights and Collective Needs: A New Framework for Social Protection in a Digitized World. Just Net Coalition & IT for Change. Available at: https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/29/data-rights-collective-needs-framework-social-protection-digitized-world/
IT for Change in the Media
Aggrawal, A. (2020). How Covid-19 Fuels the Digital Gender Divide. FES Asia. Available at: https://www.fes-asia.org/news/digital-gender-divide/
Bharati, V. R. (2020). Seven Questions Unpacking Cancel Culture. Bot Populi. Available at: https://botpopuli.net/unpacking-cancel-culture
Chami, N. & Kanchan, T. (2021). A Feminist Social Media Future: How Do We Get There? Bot Populi. Available at: https://botpopuli.net/a-feminist-social-media-future
Chami, N. & Sanjay, S. (2020). A Data Rights Agenda for Platform and Gig Economy Workers. Hindustan Times. Available at: https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/a-data-rights-agenda-for-platform-and-gig-economy-workers/story-9ZtpX9kavVSN5TNQcE289M.html
Chami, N. (2020). Protecting Platform Workers’ Rights in the Post-Covid Economy: Reflections from India. FES Asia. Available at: https://www.fes.de/en/themenportal-gewerkschaften-und-gute-arbeit/international-trade-union-policy/articles-in-international-trade-union-policy/der-letzte-kampf
Gurumurthy, A. & Chami, N. (2020). A 3-Point Agenda for Platform Workers; as if the South Matters. Bot Populi. Available at: https://botpopuli.net/platform-gig-work-global-south-labor-digital-economy-covid
Gurumurthy, A. & Chami, N. (2020). Profiteering from the Pandemic: How India’s Lockdown Paved the Way for Big E-Commerce Disaster Capitalism. Heinrich Boell Foundation. Available at: https://us.boell.org/en/2020/06/19/profiteering-pandemic-how-indias-lockdown-paved-way-big-e-commerce-disaster-capitalism
Gurumurthy, A. & Jha, B. (2020). Articulating a Feminist Response to Online Hate Speech: First Steps. Bot Populi. Available at: https://botpopuli.net/articulating-a-feminist-response-to-online-hate-speech-first-steps
Gurumurthy, A. & Jha, B. (2020). Public Participation is a Woman’s First-Order Claim to Being Recognized as a Human Being, the Pandemic can’t be Allowed to Undermine that. Firstpost. Available at: https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/public-participation-is-a-womans-first-order-claim-to-being-recognised-as-a-human-being-the-pandemic-cant-be-allowed-to-undermine-that-8419571.html
Gurumurthy, A., Zainab, K., & Sanjay, S. (2020). Covid-19 Lockdown Exposes Gaping Holes in E-Commerce and Farm Food Supply Chains. Hindu Business Line. Available at: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/covid-lockdown-exposes-gaping-holes-in-e-commerce-and-farm-food-supply-chains/article31338288.ece
Jha, B. (2020). What is so Private about Online Sexual Harassment?. Bot Populi. Available at: https://botpopuli.net/whats-so-private-about-online-sexual-harassment
Kasinathan, G. & Madhurima, V. (2020). What Challenges Do Online Classes Pose? The Hindu. Available at: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/what-challenges-do-online-classes-pose/article33358120.ece
Kasinathan, G. & Ranganathan, S. (2020). Reclaiming Education During a Pandemic. Deccan Herald. Available at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/panorama/reclaiming-education-during-a-pandemic-866035.html
Mittal, A. (2020). Constitutionalising Data Redistribution. IJLT Blog. Available at: https://www.ijlt.in/post/constitutionalising-data-redistribution
Singh, P. J. (2020). A Plan for Indian Self-Sufficiency in an AI-Driven World. Livemint. Available at: https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/a-plan-for-indian-self-sufficiency-in-an-ai-driven-world-11596034228707.html
Singh, P. J. (2020). Correcting the Power Imbalance Between Platforms and News Publishers. Parley Podcast. Available at: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/should-government-intervene-in-platform-publisher-relationships/article31476012.ece?homepage=true
Singh, P. J. (2020). Data is an Economic Resource. GK Committee Report Shows How Its Value Can Be Shared, Governed. Indian Express. Available at: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/data-sharing-digital-world-gopalakrishnan-committee-6524049/
Singh, P. J. (2020). Treating Data as Commons. The Hindu. Available at: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/treating-data-as-commons/article32498681.ece
Zainab, K. (2020). Beauty and the Platform Economy. Bot Populi. Available at: https://botpopuli.net/beauty-platform-economy-urban-company-women-gig-workers
IT for Change’s Podcasts
IT for Change. (2021). The Davos Diaries – Miniseries. Bot Populi. Available at: https://botpopuli.net/the-davos-diaries-miniseries
IT for Change. (2021). Feminist Digital Futures. Bot Populi. Available at: https://botpopuli.net/feminist-digital-futures