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IT for Change Invites Applications for a Residential Institute on Frontiers and Frames for a New Digitality
October 28-November 1, 2022 | Thailand
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IT for Change invites applications for a five-day residential institute on Frontiers and Frames for a New Digitality. This institute is part of our School of Digital Justice, a pedagogical vehicle to further the vision of re-imagining and realizing socio-structural transformation for a just digital economy.
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This is an intense and immersive learning platform that will introduce participants to the political economy of the digital and offer an overview of critical trends, developments and debates. Selected participants will have the opportunity to:
- Learn about, critically examine and take stock of unfolding trends in the political economy and impact of platformization.
- Acquire the necessary vocabulary and tools to appropriately frame and approach emerging digital intersections with their work, make relevant connections and chart solutions and intervention pathways for effective political organization.
- Be part of an ongoing community of activist-scholars, development professionals and researchers from the Global South.
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Our institute is a great fit for applicants who are::
- Civil society activists, scholars/researchers or development practitioners from the Global South, working on digital rights, climate justice and biodiversity, labor issues, gender justice, trade justice, or international development politics.
- Curious about the ways in which, digitalization has altered their fields/domains of research and keen on grasping legal and public policy changes.
- Interested in exploring intersections of law, technology and policy, dynamics of the data economy and its bearings on development, human rights, social justice, gender equality and labor rights.
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IT for Change will cover lodging and meals for all participants.
Organizations nominating team members are encouraged to fund the travel cost of their applicants. A limited number of travel fellowships are available for participants/organizations unable to cover travel costs. (If a travel fellowship is required, please indicate that in the application form.)
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