IT for Change

IT for Change aims to democratise digital technologies and advance social justice, gender equality, and equitable digital futures in the Global South. Most mainstream approaches to digital technologies for development are either techno-utopic or promote a market-fundamentalist approach, often both together. A digital makeover of economies and societies has become a convenient opportunity for wholesale corporatisation of social systems, displacing the cornerstone ethics of democratic participation, commons, social justice and gender equality from development discourse. Through a combination of research, networking-building and advocacy, our work aims to secure development justice in the digital era.