IT for Change

We work on #InternetGovernance, #gender, #education & #DigitalJustice.
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We're bidding goodbye! 👋

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We're grateful to our partners and collaborators for working with us through these technical and communication challenges!

@MicrosoftIndia @Outlook

#EmailDelivery #TechInfrastructure #Microsoft #NonprofitTech #DigitalRights #MicrosoftEmailCrisis

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Microsoft Exchange email delivery to our domain remains broken. As a small organization, our strength lies in our community. But the tech challenge is blocking these vital connections.

Please use alternative communication channels if you need to reach us.

@MicrosoftHelps

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📢 Important update:

Since early July, emails sent from @Microsoft Exchange (@Outlook) servers to our @itforchange.net addresses have not been reaching us. This has disrupted communication with our community, collaborators, and external colleagues.

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If you're trying to reach us, our team is available on alternative channels.

We request Microsoft to address this issue urgently and help reestablish connectivity to all who wish to reach us.

Thank you for your patience and persistence as we navigate this challenge.

[South Centre @South_Centre]

The @South_Centre's @abdulmc presented on what actions civil society can take to champion progressive digital tax reform at the @ITforChange Residential Institute on Frontiers and Frames for a New Digitality held in Bali, Indonesia.

[ARTIGO 19 Brasil e América do Sul @ARTIGO19]

Também fazem parte do observatório: @article19org , @article19mxca, @BalancedEconomy, @monopolyproject, @cis_india, European Digital Rights, @Foxglovelegal, @GENTIUM_org, @ITforChange,@openmarkets, @privacyint e @RebalanceNow_de.

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The promises of platformization remain unfulfilled. Instead of improving key metrics like female labor participation, the expansion of gig work has accelerated inequalities across gender, class, geography, and race—leaving women workers more vulnerable. In the run-up to Beijing+30, we need bold, multi-level policy action to build a feminist future of work.

In February 2025, IT for Change, @DAWNfeminist , and @FESonline hosted four regional consultations across Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. Bringing together over 50 feminist scholars, labor rights lawyers, gender experts, and trade unionists, these discussions laid the groundwork for systemic change.

Read the highlights from our synthesis report here which was launched on 10 March 2025 at the UN CSW69. ➡️

We demand swift policy action to address the systemic challenges that plague women workers and to facilitate social protection accounting for the unpaid care work performed by them.

You can find the full report here: https://t.co/hJn1MbRC0X

#GigWork #DigitalRights #WomensDay #FemaleWorkers

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As we close this chapter, we carry forward the learning, friendships, and renewed energy and commitment that emerged at Prana Dewi. Here’s to the beginning of our journey together!

Thank you to the wonderful crew over at Gede Duta Visual Production for supporting us with stunning photos and videos.

#DigitalJustice #SchoolOfDigitalJustice #NewDigitality

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✨ 🌎 The beginnings of a New Digitality. ✨ 🌿

Over the past week, the Residential Institute on Frontiers and Frames for a New Digitality 2025, organized by the School of Digital Justice, IT for Change, brought together a powerful cohort of Southern scholars, activists, and practitioners committed to reshaping the digital landscape.

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@samdhana_inst @harinjaka @valeriabet With the mentorship of our brilliant resource persons, participants wove together their diverse experiences and their learnings to build a powerful collective vision for digital justice.

[Séamus Boland @EESC_President]

🚨 At #CSW69 side event by @FESonline, @ITforChange, @ITUC & @DAWNfeminist, we tackled women’s vulnerability in platform work, algorithmic gender biases & the need for a gender lens in the EU Platform Work Directive.

Let’s empower women in the digital economy! 💻👩‍💼

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@FESnewsbrief @DAWNfeminist Learn more about the agenda and the speakers here: https://t.co/5SsoLfPfY9

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📢 Report Launch & Discussion at CSW69 Side Event: Pathways to Gender Equality in the Platform Economy

We’re excited to announce the launch of Pathways to Gender Equality in the Platform Economy, a new policy report by @FESnewsbrief , @DAWNfeminist , and IT for Change. This report brings together insights from feminist scholars, trade union representatives, and activists across Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the EU, based on online consultations held in February 2025.

This session will explore policy solutions to address gendered precarity in platform work, focusing on tech design reforms, social protection, and international labor standards to advance a feminist future of work.

📅 Date & Time: Monday, March 10, 2025 | 1:15 – 2:30 PM EDT
📍 Location: Conference Room A, UN Conference Building, New York

🚨 Why Attend?

While platform work is often seen as flexible and empowering, it continues to reinforce gender discrimination, pay gaps, and job insecurity. This discussion will address:
✅ Key challenges women face in platform work
✅ Tech-driven solutions to reduce gender bias
✅ Policy innovations for gender-inclusive social protections
✅ International labor standards for digital work and gender justice

Join us in shaping a feminist future of work in the digital economy!

📩 RSVP here: https://t.co/SGsnSyzUvs (Google form)
For questions, contact [email protected].

#CSW69 #GenderEquality #PlatformEconomy #FutureOfWork #FeministEconomy #DigitalLabor

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Our Residential Institute on Frontiers and Frames for a New Digitality 2025 commenced today! Participants from across the globe arrived in Bali and settled in, marking the start of a week-long journey into critical engagements on digital justice. We began Day 1 with a round of icebreakers and an overview of the institute, followed by a thought-provoking lecture on interpreting the digital condition by Anita Gurumurthy. Participants then engaged in group work unpacking the language of the digital, before bringing their own local contexts to bear on pressing questions about our digital futures. Exciting discourse has begun—stay tuned for more!

@camilaaleite @_aliciareynoso @harinjaka

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We’re thrilled to see our panel at RightsCon 2025 in Taipei covered by @EileenGuo for MIT Technology Review! Our Communications Manager, @Sadafwani42 hosted a roundtable on hate speech and AI, bringing together critical perspectives from South Asia, Kenya @BeckyWambui & @WangariNjathi), and Brazil (Yasmin Curzi).

The discussion highlighted how online attacks are increasingly met with automated and AI-driven content moderation—often trained on North American datasets, making them less effective at detecting problematic speech in non-English languages. This gap can have severe consequences for tech-facilitated violence in the Global South, where contextually inappropriate moderation can either silence critical voices or allow harmful content to persist.

Read more:
https://t.co/Q3LVBcORIU

[SEWA Cooperative Federation @SEWAFed]

Digital Inclusion & Cooperative Learning:
@ITforChange conducted focus group discussions with Megha Women Farmers Cooperative members to explore digital interventions, enhancing cooperative efficiency and access to technology.
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#IYC2025 #InternationalYearOfCooperatives2025