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- Health Data Management Policies - Differences Between the EU and India — by Shweta Mohandas — last modified Jul 10, 2023 04:36 PM
- Through this issue brief we would like to highlight the differences in approaches to health data management taken by the EU and India, and look at possible recommendations for India, in creating a privacy preserving health data management policy.
- CoWIN Breach: What Makes India's Health Data an Easy Target for Bad Actors? — by Shweta Mohandas and Pallavi Bedi — last modified Jul 04, 2023 09:39 AM
- Recent health data policies have failed to even mention the CoWIN platform.
- PDC 2022 — by Admin — last modified Jul 04, 2023 07:05 AM
- Divyansha Sehgal and Yatharth presented their work - Designing Domestic Work Platforms - on critical design assessments of gig work platforms at the Participatory Design Conference.
- Women in Gig Work — by Admin — last modified Jul 04, 2023 07:00 AM
- Aayush Rathi was a speaker on a panel on domestic work and digital platforms, as part of WageIndicator Foundation’s 5th webinar on women and gig work.
- As Equals: Frequently Asked Questions — by Admin — last modified Jul 04, 2023 06:54 AM
- Chiara Furtado was a panellist on the ‘As Equals’ series hosted by CNN since 2018 which aims to reveal what systemic gender inequality looks like. Chiara participated in a roundtable on digital harms and gender equality.
- Online cab booking | Why finding a cab is a nightmare now — by Haripriya Suresh — last modified Jul 04, 2023 06:34 AM
- Many drivers said the rise in commissions payable to ride-hailing platforms and higher fuel costs, among other expenses, have made it impossible for them to survive in the once-lucrative profession.
- Labouring (on) the app: agency and organisation of work in the platform economy — by Ambika Tandon and Abhishek Sekharan — last modified Jul 04, 2023 06:28 AM
- Ambika Tandon and Abhishek Sekharan published an academic paper highlighting the importance of women’s networks of information sharing and care in navigating opaque platform design. The paper is part of an issue of Gender and Development on ‘Women, Work and the Digital Economy’. Gender and Development is one of the few academic journals that priorities practitioners' experiences over theoretical contributions.
- Women at (gig) work: When financial freedom comes at a cost — by Aiswarya Raj — last modified Jul 04, 2023 06:12 AM
- Chiara Furtado was quoted in a news article on women’s experiences working on ride-hailing and delivery platforms.
- Gig Workers Are Being Stabbed, Beaten, and Abused in India — by Varsha Bansal — last modified Jul 04, 2023 06:04 AM
- An Uber driver was mugged. An Ola driver was beaten and left in a coma. Platform workers say tech companies are doing little to protect them.
- India’s gig economy drivers face bust in the country’s digital boom — by Jagmeet Singh — last modified Jul 04, 2023 05:02 AM
- Workers on platforms like Uber, Ola and Swiggy deal with blocked accounts, other backlash for speaking out over poor conditions
- Procurement Through Digital Platforms: Women's Worker Collectives — by Admin — last modified Jul 04, 2023 04:52 AM
- CIS experimented with the informal nature of Twitter Spaces to host a dissemination event (in Hindi) along with SEWA. The event moderated by Chiara Furtado was held on the Twitter platform on September 13, 2022.
- Global Perspectives on Women, Work and Digital Labour Platforms — by Admin — last modified Jul 04, 2023 04:43 AM
- Ambika Tandon was a panellist at the launch event for the Global Perspectives on Women, Work and Digital Labour Platforms organized by Digital Future Society on July 13, 2022 on online platform.
- Gender and collective bargaining in the platform economy: Experiences of on-demand beauty workers in India — by Abhishek Sekharan, Chiara Furtado and Ambika Tandon — last modified Jul 03, 2023 04:40 PM
- Abhishek Sekharan, Chiara Furtado, and Ambika Tandon contributed an essay on gender and collective bargaining in the platform economy in India, reflecting on the experiences of women beauty workers who organised India’s first women-led movement of platform workers. The essay has been published as part of an online collection of essays from contributors across the world and has been curated by the Digital Future Society Think Tank (Barcelona, Spain).
- Metaphors of Work, from ‘Below’ — by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Jul 03, 2023 12:29 PM
- Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon authored a chapter that describes platforms as more than technological interfaces. The chapter invokes some of the metaphors that gig workers use to make sense of platforms. This chapter was part of an edited volume published by Springer. This chapter forms part of the ‘Labour Futures’ research project, hosted at the Centre for Internet and Society, India, and supported by the Internet Society Foundation.
- WIPO SCCR 43: Notes from Day 3 — by Shweta Mohandas — last modified Apr 28, 2023 01:03 PM
- WIPO SCCR 43: Notes from Day 1 — by Shweta Mohandas — last modified Apr 28, 2023 12:01 PM
- Member states delivered opening statements and deliberated on the progress, substantive provisions, and method of work on the draft broadcasting treaty text. This blog post summarises positions and contentions that supported: 1)The need for balance between rights of broadcasters and that of users and researchers 2) Questions around fixation and signal piracy 3) Need for consensus and towards a diplomatic conference
- WIPO SCCR 43: Notes from Day 2 — by Shweta Mohandas — last modified Apr 28, 2023 12:22 PM
- Security of Open Source Software : A Survey of Technical Stakeholders’ Perceptions and Actions — by Divyansha Sehgal — last modified Apr 13, 2023 06:01 AM
- Securing Our Dependence on Code Reuse in Software — by Divyank Katira — last modified Apr 13, 2023 05:47 AM
- Dividing and breaking up a software project into smaller modules with functionality that can be reused to build other software is an increasingly common practice in software development today. We examine our infrastructural dependence on reuse of open-source software (OSS) components, examine the unique security risks posed by the widespread reuse of code, and survey systemic solutions to securing code reuse.
- CIS Statement in WIPO SCCR 43 — by Shweta Mohandas and Anubha Sinha — last modified Mar 28, 2023 02:12 PM
- Shweta Mohandas delivered a statement on behalf of CIS, on day 1 of the 43rd WIPO SCCR session on the Broadcast Treaty.
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