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‘Future of work’ or 21st–century oppressed labour?: Findings from an AIGWU survey with 50 Urban Company housekeeping workers in Bengaluru
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Nihira Ram
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published
May 16, 2024
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filed under:
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy,
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work
n this essay, Nihira Ram shares findings from a survey done by the All India Gig Workers Union with more than 50 migrant workers living in a slum in Bengaluru. The workers primarily provided cleaning and domestic services on the platform, Urban Company (previously UrbanClap).
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CIS Seminar Series: Information Disorder
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by
Aman Nair
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published
Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Aug 11, 2021 11:17 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
Digital Access,
Internet Governance,
Digital Disruption,
Information Technology
The Centre for Internet and Society is announcing the launch of a seminar series to showcase research around digital rights and technology policy, with a focus on the Global South.
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CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford (Nov 03, 6:30 pm)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Nov 01, 2016
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last modified
Mar 13, 2019 12:30 AM
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CISxScholars,
Data Systems,
Digital Economy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Labour,
Network Economies,
Homepage,
Event
We are delighted to have William F. Stafford, PhD candidate in UC Berkeley, present on "Public Measurements, Private Measurements, and the Convergence of Units" at the CIS office in Delhi on Thursday, Nov 03, at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP if you are joining us: <
[email protected]>.
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Comments on the Report of the Committee on Digital Payments (December 2016)
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Amber Sinha
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published
Jan 12, 2017
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last modified
Jan 12, 2017 12:32 PM
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filed under:
UID,
Digital ID,
Big Data,
Digital Economy,
Digital Access,
Privacy,
Digital Security,
Data Revolution,
Digital Payment,
Internet Governance,
Digital India,
Data Protection,
Demonetisation,
Homepage,
Featured,
Aadhaar
The Committee on Digital Payments constituted by the Ministry of Finance and chaired by Ratan P. Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog, submitted its report on the "Medium Term Recommendations to Strengthen Digital Payments Ecosystem" on December 09, 2016. The report was made public on December 27, and comments were sought from the general public. Here are the comments submitted by the Centre for Internet and Society.
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Contestations of Data, ECJ Safe Harbor Ruling and Lessons for India
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Jyoti Panday
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Oct 14, 2015
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Economy,
Public Accountability,
Privacy,
Platform Responsibility,
Data Protection,
Accountability,
Digital Security,
Digital India,
Internet Governance
The European Court of Justice has invalidated a European Commission decision, which had previously concluded that the 'Safe Harbour Privacy Principles' provide adequate protections for European citizens’ privacy rights for the transfer of personal data between European Union and United States. The inadequacies of the framework is not news for the European Commission and action by ECJ has been a long time coming. The ruling raises important questions about how the claims of citizenship are being negotiated in the context of the internet, and how increasingly the contestations of personal data are being employed in the discourse.
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Digital mediation of domestic and care work in India: Project Announcement
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by
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi
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published
Oct 01, 2019
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last modified
Oct 10, 2019 08:09 AM
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Digital Economy,
Digital Labour,
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Domestic Work
It is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a study on digital mediation of domestic and care work in India, as part of and supported by the Feminist Internet Research Network led by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The study is exploring the ways in which structural inequalities, such as those of gender and class, are being reproduced or challenged by digital
platforms. The project sites are Delhi and Bangalore, where we are conducting interviews with workers, companies, and unions. In Bangalore, we are collaborating with Stree Jagruti Samiti to collect qualitative data from different stakeholders. The outputs of the research will include a report, policy brief, and other communication materials in English, Hindi, and Kannada. This study is being led by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi, along with Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Doing Standpoint Theory
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Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi
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published
Oct 10, 2019
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last modified
Dec 06, 2019 04:59 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
Gender,
Digital Labour,
Research,
Publications,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Domestic Work
Feminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist standpoint theory, feminist empiricism, and feminist relativism. Standpoint theory holds the experiences of the marginalised as the source of ‘truth’ about structures of oppression, which is silenced by traditional objectivist research methods as they produce knowledge from the standpoint of voices in positions of power. In this essay published on the GenderIT website, Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi [1] discuss the practical applicability of these epistemologies to research practices in the field of technology and gender.
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Domestic Work in the ‘Gig Economy’
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Aayush Rathi
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published
Nov 14, 2019
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last modified
Dec 06, 2019 04:52 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
RAW Events,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Event,
Digital Domestic Work
The CIS and Domestic Workers’ Rights Union (DWRU) are hosting a discussion on the ‘gig economy’ and domestic work on Saturday, November 16 at Student Christian Movement of India, Mission Road, Bangalore. This event is a part of a project supported by the Feminist Internet Research Network led by Association for Progressive Communication (APC) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
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Getting the (Digital) Indo-Pacific Economic Framework Right
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by
Arindrajit Basu
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published
Oct 03, 2022
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filed under:
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Digital Governance,
Digital Economy
On the eve of the Tokyo Quad Summit in May 2022, President Biden unveiled the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), visualising cooperation across the Indo-Pacific based on four pillars: trade; supply chains; clean energy, decarbonisation and infrastructure; and tax and anti-corruption. Galvanised by the US, the other 13 founding members of the IPEF are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The first official in-person Ministerial meeting was held in Los Angeles on 9 September 2022.
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Gig and platform workers’ perspectives on worker collectives
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by
Shaik Salauddin
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published
Aug 13, 2024
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy
This report highlights findings from a survey conducted by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers’ Union on platform workers’ perspectives around various worker collectives, particularly platform worker unions and cooperative societies. The survey was conducted with workers working for app-based platform companies like Ola, Uber, InDriver, Swiggy, Zomato, and Flipkart.
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