Parminder Jeet Singh

Parminder Jeet Singh is Executive Director of IT for Change – a Bangalore based NGO (www.ITforChange.net), involved in research, advocacy, and projects in ICTD and information society areas. IT for Change has been active in the WSIS process, advocating for the priorities of the South. Parminder spent nearly a decade in government, where he initiated some innovative e-governance systems. During this time, in 2001, he co-authored the book, “Government@Net: E-governance opportunities for India” (Sage Publications). Subsequently, he has worked with many ICTD field projects, as well as in policy research and advocacy related to information society issues.

Parminder recently co-authored a research paper on the “Political Economy of the Information Society: A Southern View”. At present, he is leading a research project for developing a roadmap for re-structuring government institutions in India for taking the benefits of e-governance to the poor for APDIP-UNDP. He is also working on an ICT and gender policy framework for Asia Pacific countries for UNDP. Parminder is also the coordinator of a UNDP-funded field project, which aims to bring new ICTs to disadvantaged rural women, and co-coordinator of IT for Change’s research and advocacy project -‘Information Society for the South’ - which is an inter-regional partnership.