Information Society Watch

2007, IT for Change

This is a report of an international workshop conducted by IT for Change and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden in February 2007 in Mysore, India. The workshop took a systems approach that examined the intersecting grids of social and institutional change, gender transformative processes and techno-social models.

Anita Dighe & Usha Vyasulu Reddi, CEMCA    

This paper highlights why women's illiteracy needs to be addressed, and outlines documented experiences in using ICTs to address illiteracy. After reviewing some of the salient experiences of running literacy programmes for women in developing countries, the authors discuss the support needed from a broad array of sources and areas for meaningful use of ICT interventions in women's literacy.

2006, Anita Gurumurthy, Parminder Jeet Singh, Anu Mundkur and Mridula Swamy, UNDP: Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme

This selection of papers comes from a seminar organized by an Indian NGO, IT for Change, in April 2005. The collection offers valuable literature on areas which have largely gone unnoticed in ICT and development discourse.

December 2003, Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change

The author of this piece contends that the use of ICTs in realising human development goals is constrained by the larger socio-economic context, which itself is rooted in neo-liberal policies. At WSIS, negotiations between governments, as over anything that implicates global justice, will result in the adoption of the lowest common denominator.