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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22) - Proposed Sessions
— by Admin — last modified Apr 26, 2022 07:07 AMHere is the list of sessions proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
The State of the Internet's Languages Report
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Mar 07, 2022 03:01 PMThe first-ever State of the Internet’s Languages Report was launched by Whose Knowledge? on February 23, 2022 (just after the International Mother Language day), along with research partners Oxford Internet Institute and the Centre for Internet and Society. This extraordinarily community-sourced effort, with over 100 people involved is now available online, with translations in multiple languages.
To be Counted When They Count You: Words of Caution for the Gender Data Revolution
— by Noopur Raval — last modified Feb 01, 2022 01:06 AMIn 2015, after the announcement of the SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals, a new global developmental framework through the year 2030, the United Nations described data as the “lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for accountability” for the purpose of realizing these developmental goals. This curious yet key link between these new developmental goals and the use of quantitative data for agenda setting invited a flurry of big data-led initiatives such as but not limited to Data2X, that sought to further strengthen and solidify the relationship between ‘Big Development’ and ‘Big Data.’
Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping Report
— by Kaarika Das and Srravya C — last modified Jan 04, 2022 03:06 PMGig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gender and gig work: Perspectives from domestic work in India
— by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 02:11 AMPlatforms have the potential to be instrumental in protecting workers rights, but the current platform design is not optimised to protect workers’ interests especially those of women in the gig economy, argues Ambika Tandon, a senior researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society in India and an author of the report on ‘Platforms, Power and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India’.
AI in the Future of Work
— by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 01:51 AMArtificial Intelligence and allied technologies form part of what is being called the fourth Industrial Revolution.
Practicing Feminist Principles
— by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 12:54 AMAI can serve to challenge social inequality and dismantle structures of power.
Are India’s much-lauded startups failing their women workers?
— by Abhishek Sekharan and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 06, 2021 04:24 PMRecent protests outside Urban Company’s head office highlight the gendered nature of work in the country’s digital economy.
Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig Economy
— by Kaarika Das and Srravya C — last modified Dec 06, 2021 04:04 PMIn response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020.
#CultureForAll Conference on Cultural Mapping
— by Sneha PP — last modified Sep 20, 2021 03:18 PMSahapedia is organising the #CultureForAll Conference on Cultural Mapping, digitally on September 28 and 29, 2021. The conference will take place in collaboration with the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Azim Premji University, the Centre for Internet and Society, and the Re-Centring Afro Asia project at the University of Cape Town.
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