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- Strategies to Organise Platform Workers — by Chiaro Furtado — last modified Oct 22, 2023 09:54 AM
- In 2022, the Centre for Internet and Society hosted a panel with Akkanut Wantanasombut, Ayoade Ibrahim, Rikta Krishnaswamy, and Sofía Scasserra at RightsCon, an annual summit on technology and human rights.
- Digital Delivery and Data System for Farmer Income Support — by Sameet Panda — last modified Oct 18, 2023 11:40 PM
- This report, jointly published by the Centre for Internet & Society and Privacy International, highlights the digital systems deployed by the government to augment farmer income. It analyses the PM-Kisan and Kalia schemes in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
- Detecting Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) Blocking — by Divyank Katira — last modified Sep 05, 2023 12:10 PM
- A new internet protocol makes it harder for internet service providers to censor websites. We made a technical intervention to check if censors are interfering with its deployment.
- Deceptive Design in Voice Interfaces: Impact on Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Privacy — by Saumyaa Naidu and Shweta Mohandas — last modified Aug 08, 2023 03:22 PM
- This article was commissioned by the Pranava Institute, as part of their project titled Design Beyond Deception, supported by the University of Notre Dame - IBM's Tech Ethics Lab.” The article examines the design of voice interfaces (VI) to anticipate potential deceptive design patterns in VIs. It also presents design and regulatory recommendations to mitigate these practices.
- 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
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