The paper examines the recent Free Basics controversy in India, which triggered a national level policy debate on the appropriate regulatory response to differential pricing of data services, employing the theoretical framework of 'ideology in practice'. Unpacking 'openness' in design,...

Fortschritte bei der Verwirklichung der Ziele der Agenda 2030 hängen auch vom erfolgreichen Einsatz digitaler Technologien ab. Im Global Governance Spotlight 4

For Karnataka to be a real knowledge society, it is important to look beyond the opportunities which are emerging in the formal economy and formal education sectors; to understand and examine the transformative knowledge possibilities which have opened up vis-a-vis the daily lives of people and...

The key objectives of the project are to build a strong empirical base of the state of play of the platform economy and analyze the institutional-legal contexts for recommending policy frameworks to tackle inequality, promote inclusion and advance development justice.This report presents...

There is, this Brief argues, a new governance paradigm emerging, characterised by the rise of "governance by networks" and "rule by data". This flux, say the authors, is marked by a hollowing out of the state, replacement of human functions in public administration by digital technologies, and...

At MC 11, the United States, Japan and European Union are actively pushing for a liberalized e-commerce regime that will reinforce the rules for trade set by the global North. Key to this dominant discourse is the persuasive rhetoric on free cross-border data flows as a means for smaller players...

Among the key global debates today, the governance of digital platforms has garnered widespread policy attention. As buoyant discourses celebrating innovation, opportunity and disruption jostle in equal measure with concerns about the rise and rise of digital monopolies, lawmakers and citizens...

What this paper argues is that in the neoliberal economic paradigm, AI technologies reinforce and are constituted by an economic logic based on profit maximisation. That is, AI as an essential ingredient of global economic power is co-opted into the exploitative structures of neoliberal...

In trade policy corridors, an e­-commerce agenda for women’s empowerment has been rapidly gaining traction. However, these discussions are based on the model of unbridled hyperglobalization critiqued by feminists for its pernicious effects on women in the global South.This paper takes a...

Development outcomes in the digital era are closely tied to the ability of countries to harness the data value chain and ensure fair and just digital economies. However, as things stand, the digital economy is anything but equitable.IT for Change’s two-year regional project, Unskewing the Data...