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In December 2015, Anita Gurumurthy made a presentation to the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development on the key highlights of the information centres strategy of the Prakriye field centre. The work of the centres between 2014-15 had been partly supported by the National Mission for Empowerment of Women, Government of India under its Poorna Shakti Kendras pilot project. The presentation also served as a ‘report-back’ of the key learnings from the pilot, on effective ICT-enabled, gender-inclusive service delivery.<br>

In December 2015, Anita Gurumurthy made a presentation to the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development on the key highlights of the information centres strategy of the Prakriye field centre. The work of the centres between 2014-15 had been partly supported by the National Mission for Empowerment of Women, Government of India under its Poorna Shakti Kendras pilot project. The presentation also served as a ‘report-back’ of the key learnings from the pilot, on effective ICT-enabled, gender-inclusive service delivery.<br>

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Working on the Voice or Chatter? research study has helped the IT for Change team in deepening their theoretical understanding of the new governance paradigm – characterised by algorithmic decision-making and ‘rule by data’. The team plans to use the insights emerging from the study to [http://itforchange.net/Democratic_accountability_in_the_digital_age trigger a national level civil society dialogue on rethinking democratic accountability in the current context] where information, consultation, citizen feedback and public decision-making are becoming increasingly datafied – examining specifically laws and protocols on data that cover privacy safeguards, transparency and accountability considerations (including open data practices), social ownership of data, regulation of the data economy.<br>

Working on the Voice or Chatter? research study has helped the IT for Change team in deepening their theoretical understanding of the new governance paradigm – characterised by algorithmic decision-making and ‘rule by data’. The team plans to use the insights emerging from the study to [http://itforchange.net/Democratic_accountability_in_the_digital_age trigger a national level civil society dialogue on rethinking democratic accountability in the current context] where information, consultation, citizen feedback and public decision-making are becoming increasingly datafied – examining specifically laws and protocols on data that cover privacy safeguards, transparency and accountability considerations (including open data practices), social ownership of data, regulation of the data economy.<br>