Anita Gurumurthy is a founding member and executive director of IT for Change (ITfC), an India-based NGO engaged in policy research and advocacy on ICTD. Anita's academic work has been in the areas of gender, public health, globalisation and the information society. She has written extensively on gender and ICTD from a Southern perspective, interrogating the construction of the mainstream discourse on social justice and equity. Anita’s earlier work has included research and writing on the qualitative indicators of women’s empowerment and policy research on reproductive health and rights of women. At IT for Change, Anita currently coordinates a policy research project titled ‘Information Society for the South’. This project explores the genealogical and discursive issues in, as well as theoretical connections between, the information society context and three critical development areas - social policy, governance and gender - respectively. Anita is an associate of the international gender network Gender at Work, she serves on the Board of ISIS International Manila - an Asia-Pacific feminist organisation and also is a member of various expert committees. In partnership with IDRC, Anita is currently providing conceptual and programmatic leadership to a pan-Asia research network on ‘Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society.