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IT for Change adopts a critical perspective to the nature and manner in which digital technologies are shaping society, while being shaped largely by powerful interests in society. At the same time, it becomes important to be able to demonstrate alternative ways in which digital technologies can be envisioned, and programs designed and implemented, to strengthen the marginalized sections of society.
IT for Change has been consistently demonstrating models of technology appropriation and use, that are participatory and support public ownership of digital resources - be it software, or connectivity, or cultural / educational content or data. Our field projects in the area of community informatics through Prakriye - our field centre, and in education, through our Centre for Education and Technology, design programs that are intended to be demonstration projects, for public systems and other organizations to build on. The learnings from our field projects inform our research and policy advocacy programs.
Centre for Education and Technology
The Centre for Education and Technology, IT for Change, seeks to build participatory models that strengthen teacher agency, school autonomy, adolescent education and community participation, in partnership with public education systems. Our field projects systemically integrate digital technologies for connecting, creating and collaborating at school, district and state levels. Our research includes digital intelligence, collaborative OER models, communities of practice and free and open technologies.
Our research and practice inputs to national and state curriculum programs, and the courses we offer with academic institutions. In our advocacy with government institutions and civil society, we critique dominant models that privatize education through outsourcing, or centralize control with bureaucracies and vendors, and argue the necessity and possibilities for empowering choices of digital technologies in education.
Prakriye: Centre for Community Informatics and Development
An equitable information society can flourish only through inclusive and informed debate, involving not merely actors from the technology arena but all actors in the development sphere, especially from the South. Current information society and 'ICTs for development' or ICTD approaches predominantly represent Northern realities and perspectives, tending to favour market-fundamentalist thinking and valorising technology per se. We attempt to de-construct the dominant approach and concepts in relation to ICTs and development and articulate alternatives, based on theoretical and empirical investigation.
Featured Courses
The Institute on Gender, Technology and Education organized by IT for Change with support from the Commonwealth of Learning (COL)…
We are delighted to share that the 2023 edition of the School of Feminist Economics on Feminist Digital Justice will be conducted…
IT for Change's five-day residential institute on Frontiers and Frames for a New Digitality, took place in Chiang Mai, Thailand.…
IT for Change is collaborating with Teacher education institutes such as Vijaya Teachers College (VTC), Sri Sarvajna College of…
