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<div style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:22px"><span style="color:#000080"><span style="font-family:lora,georgia,times new roman,serif">Thinkpieces on
Digital
Infrastructure
and Inclusion
| Call for
Proposals</span></span></span></strong></div>
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for Change is
thrilled to
announce a
call for
proposals for
think pieces
under the
project,
‘Re-wiring
India’s
Digitalising
Economy for
Women’s Rights
and
Well-being,’
supported by
the European
Commission and
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. We invite six, 5000-6000 word (excluding
graphs, tables
and
references),
previously
unpublished
think pieces,
based on
original
scholarship,
that adopt
critical,
feminist
approaches to
the
interactions
of digital
inclusion
infrastructures,
practices and
policies with
the economic,
political and
social
citizenship of
women.</span></span>
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<a title="Read the detailed call for propsals" href="https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/2580/CFP_Think%20Pieces%202024_Gender%20and%20Digital%20Inclusion.pdf" style="font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:100%;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;display:block" target="_blank"><font size="4">Read the detailed call for
proposals</font></a>
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Themes for
Research:</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:roboto,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">1.
Case studies
on material,
regulatory,
and labor
underpinnings
of digital
inclusion
efforts<br>
2. Case
studies on
successfully
addressing
exclusion
challenges<br>
3. Policy
responses to
address
digital
inequalities<br>
4. Politics of
digital
inclusion
infrastructures<br>
5.
Entanglements
of labor and
bodies with
digitalized
social
security<br>
6. Methods to
make visible
and legible
inclusions and
exclusions<br>
7. Data
protection
practices and
standards<br>
8. Inclusive
digital
finance
services<br>
9. Digital
competencies
for inclusion
in the digital
economy</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#333366"><span style="font-family:merriweather,georgia,times new roman,serif"><strong>Quick
Overview:</strong></span></span></span>
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Contributions
will be
published on
the IT for
Change
website. All
outputs will
be licensed
under CC BY SA
4.0 license.<br>
-Renumeration:
A remuneration
of €3,900/-
will be
disbursed in
full on
submission of
the final
draft.<br>
-Duration:
10th September
2024 - 15th
December 2024</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#333366"><span style="font-family:merriweather,georgia,times new roman,serif"><strong>Eligibility:</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:roboto,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">We
seek
well-established,
mid to senior-
career
scholars and
researchers
who identify
as women, with
a track record
of publishing
on the digital
economy and
gender.<br>
Applicants can
be located
anywhere in
the world, but
must be able
to legally
receive funds
and work in
their
location. We
encourage
scholars with
expertise in
the European
Union,
African, and
Asian regions
to apply.</span></span><br>
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<span style="color:#333366"><strong><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:merriweather,georgia,times new roman,serif">Selection
Criteria: </span></span></strong></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:roboto,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Applications
will be
assessed for
their
theoretical
rigour,
originality,
their
contribution
to the
existing
scholarship on
gender and
digital
inclusion, as
well as
geographic
focus.
Priority will
be given to
applications
that include
analyses of
the European
Union,
African, and
Asian regions.</span></span><br>
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<span style="color:#333366"><strong><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:merriweather,georgia,times new roman,serif">Application
Process</span></span></strong></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:roboto,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Please
send a
proposal and
your academic
CV in a single
PDF file to <a href="mailto:itfcthinkpieces2024@itforchange.net" target="_blank">itfcthinkpieces2024@itforchange.net</a>
by 20th August
2024. The
proposal
should
include:<br>
1. An extended
abstract
(700-1000
words)<br>
2. A short
statement on
addressing
digital
infrastructures
and inclusion
(100 words)</span></span>
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