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Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig Economy
In 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
Sahapedia 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.
Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India
CIS has been undertaking a two-year project studying the entry of digital platforms in the domestic and care work in India, supported by the Association for Progressive Communications as part of the Feminist Internet Research Network. Implemented through 2019-21, the objective of the project is to use a feminist lens to critique platform modalities and orient platformisation dynamics in radically different, worker-first ways. Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi led the research team at CIS. The Domestic Workers’ Rights Union is a partner in the implementation of the project, as co-researchers. Geeta Menon, head of DWRU, was an advisor on the project, and the research team consisted of Parijatha G.P., Radha Keerthana, Zeenathunnisa, and Sumathi, who are office holders in the union and are responsible for organising workers and addressing their concerns.
IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and Safety
Between July to November 2019, Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, conducted 2,128 surveys across 6 major cities: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Lucknow, to determine the occupational health and safety of app-based transport workers. CIS is proud to publish the study report and the press release. Akash Sheshadri, Ambika Tandon, and Aayush Rathi of CIS supported post-production of this report.
Atmanirbhar Bharat Meets Digital India: An Evaluation of COVID-19 Relief for Migrants
With the onset of the national lockdown on 24th March 2020 in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, the fate of millions of migrant workers was left uncertain. In addition, lack of enumeration and registration of migrant workers became a major obstacle for all State Governments and the Central Government to channelize relief and welfare measures.
The Many Languages of Digital Infrastructures
This essay by Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Anasuya Sengupta outlines some of the key challenges in digitalisation and representation of non-dominant/marginalised languages on the internet today, through reflections on two recent projects related to languages and the internet. The essay has been published in Seminar Magazine, as part of its thematic focus this month on 'Navigating Language in a Digital Age.'
Sameet Panda - Data Systems in Welfare: Impact of the JAM Trinity on Pension & PDS in Odisha during COVID-19
This study by Sameet Panda tries to understand the integration of data and digital systems in welfare delivery in Odisha. It brings out the impact of welfare digitalisation on beneficiaries through primary data collected in November 2020. The researcher is thankful to community members for sharing their lived experiences during course of the study. Fieldwork was undertaken in three panchayats of Bhawanipatna block of Kalahandi district, Odisha. Additional research support was provided by Apurv Vivek and Vipul Kumar, and editorial contributions were made by Ambika Tandon (Senior Researcher, CIS). This study was conducted as part of a project on gender, welfare, and surveillance, supported by Privacy International, UK.
IRC 22 - Proposed Session - #IdentifyingTheIdeaofLaborinTeaching – Negotiating pedagogy at home and inside classroom(s)
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC22 - Proposed Session - #WaitingForFood
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC 22 - Proposed Session - #HomeAndTheInternet
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC 22 - Proposed Session - #HomeBasedFlexiworkInCovid19
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC22 - Proposed Session - #IdentitiesVulnerabilitiesOpportunitiesDissent
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
Labour futures: Intersectional responses to southern digital platform economies
It is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a two-year research project to comprehensively analyse dominant and emerging sectors in India’s platform economies. The project is funded by a research grant of USD 200,000 from the Internet Society Foundation.
IRC22 - Proposed Session - #Involute - Jagged Seams of the Domestic and the Vocational
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC22 - Proposed Session - #CovidConfessions: An internet art project
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC22 - Proposed Session - #TransActandWhatFollowed - Access to care for transgender persons during the COVID-19 pandemic
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC 22 - Proposed Session - #ThisMightNotBeOnline
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC22 - Proposed Session - #“Going Home”: Constructions of a Digital-Urban Platform Interface in Delhi-NCR
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC22 - Proposed Session - #SocialMediaActivism
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
IRC 22 - Proposed Session - # ActFromHome
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
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