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.
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MSMEs and e-commerce adoption: Lessons from India
Why do micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) struggle with using digital marketplaces such as Amazon or Facebook for their operations?
Originally published in ICTs for Development on 25 November 2024
The Global Digital Compact – an “add and stir gender” déjà vu?
The Global Digital Compact upholds “gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and their full, equal and meaningful participation” as a
Originally published in World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) on 18 November 2024.
The Global Digital Compact is here: What now for civil society?
On 22 September 2024, at the UN Summit of the Future, member states adopted the Global Digital Compact (GDC): a framework for multistakeholder digital c
Originally published in Bot Populi on 14 October 2024.
Digital Citizenship
Do we have the skills and mindsets that help us navigate the internet?
When teachers learned the art of writing
Can 'digitally facilitated' writing enable teachers to develop themselves as academic writers?
Originally published in Deccan Herald on 1 October 2024.
Global Digital Justice Forum's rejoinder to the Open Letter by Tech Leaders and Innovators to the United Nations on the Global Digital Compact
The Global Digital Justice Forum, of which IT for Change acts as the secretariat, has issued a rejo
Originally published in The Global Digital Justice Forum in August 2024.
Clubs Help Young Girls Navigate Their Way
“I had always felt conscious about my pimples and dark skin.
Originally published in Deccan Herald on 2 July 2024.
The Global Digital Compact We Need for People and the Planet
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Originally published in The South Centre on 24 April 2024.
How theatre techniques can help students learn
One of the biggest challenges in education is the creation of an engaging, enriching and equitable classroom atmosphere which
Originally published in The Hindu on 18 April 2024.
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