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Simiran Lalvani - Workers’ Fictive Kinship Relations in Mumbai App-based Food Delivery
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by
Simiran Lalvani
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published
Dec 04, 2019
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last modified
May 19, 2020 06:25 AM
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Network Economies,
Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Labour in India
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every interaction and movement. This essay by Simiran Lalvani is the first among a series of writings by researchers associated with the 'Mapping Digital Labour in India' project at the CIS, supported by the Azim Premji University, that were published on the Platypus blog of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC). The essay is edited by Noopur Raval, who co-led the project concerned.
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Zothan Mawii - COVID-19 and Relief Measures for Gig Workers in India
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by
Zothan Mawii (Tandem Research)
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published
Apr 14, 2020
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last modified
May 19, 2020 05:41 AM
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filed under:
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Future of Work,
Network Economies,
Researchers at Work
CIS is cohosted a webinar with Tandem Research on the impact of the COVID-19 response on the gig economy on 9 April 2020. It was a closed door discussion between representatives of workers' unions, labour activists, and researchers working on gig economy and workers' rights to highlight the demands of workers' groups in the transport, food delivery and care work sectors. We saw this as an urgent intervention in light of the disruption to the gig economy caused by the nationwide lockdown to limit proliferation of COVID-19. This is a summary of the discussions that took place in the webinar authored by Zothan Mawii, a Research Fellow at Tandem Research.
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RAW
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A Compilation of Research on the Gig Economy
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Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 19, 2020
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filed under:
Gender,
Digital Labour,
Covid19,
Research,
Platform-Work,
RAW Research,
research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Domestic Work
Over the past year, researchers at CIS have been studying gig economies and gig workers in India. Their work has involved consultative discussions with domestic workers, food delivery workers, taxi drivers, trade union leaders, and government representatives to document the state of gig work in India, and highlight the concerns of gig workers.
The imposition of a severe lockdown in India in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 has left gig workers in precarious positions. Without the privilege of social distancing, these workers are having to contend with a drastic reduction in income, while also placing themselves at heightened health risks.
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RAW
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Ethics and Human Rights Guidelines for Big Data for Development Research
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by
Amber Sinha, Manjri Singh, Rajashri Seal, Pranav Bhaskar Tiwari, Pranav M Bidare
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published
May 19, 2020
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last modified
May 20, 2020 07:56 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
BD4D,
RAW Research,
Big Data for Development,
Artificial Intelligence
This is a four-part review of guideline documents for ethics and human rights in big data for development research. This research was produced as part of the Big Data for Development network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada
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RAW
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Call for Papers: #CultureForAll Conference
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 22, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 01:34 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Event
We are collaborating with Sahapedia, Azim Premji University, and University of Cape Town to invite papers on cultural mapping for the #CultureForAll conference scheduled to be held in March 2021. Cultural mapping is a set of activities and processes for exploring, discovering, documenting, examining, analysing, interpreting, presenting, and sharing information related to people, communities, societies, places, and the material products and practices associated with those people and places. All interested academicians, researchers, PhD students, and practitioners are invited to submit papers. The conference is supported by Tata Technologies and MapMyIndia.
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RAW
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Gender, Health, & Surveillance in India - A Panel Discussion
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by
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 23, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 02:03 PM
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filed under:
Data Systems,
RAW Events,
Gender,
Reproductive and Child Health,
Surveillance,
Researchers at Work,
Event
Women and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons face intensive and varied forms of surveillance as they access reproductive health systems. Increasingly, these systems are also undergoing rapid digitisation. The panel was set-up to discuss the discursive, experiential and policy implications of these data-intensive developments on access to public health and welfare systems by women and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons in India. The panelists presented studies undertaken as part of two projects at CIS, one of which is supported by Privacy International, UK, and the other by Big Data for Development network established by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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Parichiti - Domestic Workers’ Access to Secure Livelihoods in West Bengal
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by
Anchita Ghatak
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published
Dec 30, 2020
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last modified
Dec 30, 2020 10:01 AM
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filed under:
Gig Work,
Research,
Network Economies,
Publications,
Gender, Welfare, and Privacy,
Researchers at Work
This report by Anchita Ghatak of Parichiti presents findings of a pilot study conducted by the author and colleagues to document the situation of women domestic workers (WDWs) in the lockdown and the initial stages of the lifting of restrictions. This study would not have been possible without the WDWs who agreed to be interviewed for this study and gave their time generously. We are grateful to Dr Abhijit Das of the Centre for Health and Social Justice for his advice and help. The report is edited by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon, and this work forms a part of the CIS’s project on gender, welfare and surveillance supported by Privacy International, United Kingdom.
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RAW
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Workers’ experiences in app-based taxi and delivery sectors: Key initial findings from multi-city quantitative surveys
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by
Aayush Rathi, Abhishek Sekharan, Ambika Tandon, Chetna V. M., Chiara Furtado, and Nishkala Sekhar
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published
Feb 15, 2024
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last modified
Feb 16, 2024 01:27 AM
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filed under:
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Labour Futures
In 2021-22, the labour research vertical at CIS conducted quantitative surveys with over 1,000 taxi and delivery workers employed in the app-based and offline sectors. The surveys covered key employment indicators, including earnings and working hours, initial investments and work-related cost burdens, income and social security, platform policies and management, and employment arrangements. The surveys were part of the ‘Labour Futures’ project supported by the Internet Society Foundation.
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RAW
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Digital native: Are You Still Having Fun?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 17, 2017
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last modified
May 05, 2017 01:37 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
Before you accept a fun app into your digital ecosystem, prepare yourself for the data you will be giving away.
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RAW
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Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar
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by
Geert Lovink and Ramesh Srinivasan
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published
May 16, 2017
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last modified
May 16, 2017 02:51 PM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Ethnography,
Offline,
Researchers at Work
"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with Ramesh Srinivasan: “how can we embrace the realities of communities too-often relegated to the margins?”
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