Hyderabad, Aug. 20 -- By Sejal Gupta

Across India, women, transgender persons, and other marginalised communities still encounter significant barriers to meaningful technology use, ranging from patchy connectivity and digital illiteracy to deep-rooted social norms and policy gaps. While often hailed as a neutral catalyst for economic growth and social change, technology, in practice, operates within existing hierarchies of gender, caste, class, and geography, and its promise of empowerment is still unevenly fulfilled. This disconnect between possibility and reality was one of the central questions of the session on "How Can Technology's Transformative Potential Be Harnessed in Ways That Are Truly Inclusive?" at the Gender and Inclusion C...