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Your economy, our livelihoods: A policy brief by the All India Gig Workers’ Union
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by
W.C. Shukla, Rikta Krishnaswamy, Rohin Garg, Gunjan Jena, and S.B. Natarajan
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published
Jan 30, 2024
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last modified
Jan 31, 2024 12:02 AM
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filed under:
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy,
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Reserve Bank of India,
Featured,
Homepage
In this policy brief, the All India Gig Workers’ Union (AIGWU) presents its critique on NITI Aayog’s report on India’s platform economy. Through experiences from over 3 years of organising gig workers across India, they highlight fallacies in the report that disregard workers’ experiences and realities. They present alternative recommendations that are responsive to these realities, and offer pathways towards rights-affirming futures for workers in the platform economy.
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RAW
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Strategies to Organise Platform Workers
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by
Chiaro Furtado
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published
Oct 22, 2023
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filed under:
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy,
Researchers at Work,
Gig Work,
Platform-Work,
Featured,
RAW Research,
Homepage
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.
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RAW
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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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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India
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by
Aayush Rathi, and Ambika Tandon
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published
Jun 27, 2021
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 03:19 PM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
Researchers at Work,
Platform-Work,
Featured,
RAW Research,
Homepage,
Digital Domestic Work
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.
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RAW
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IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and Safety
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by
Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office
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published
Jun 25, 2021
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last modified
Jun 29, 2021 06:53 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Labour,
Covid19,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Featured,
Homepage
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.
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RAW
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The Competition Law Case Against Whatsapp’s 2021 Privacy Policy Alteration
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by
Aman Nair and Arindrajit Basu
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published
Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Mar 24, 2021 04:12 PM
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filed under:
Consumer Rights,
Digital Economy,
Data Protection,
Facebook,
Competition,
WhatsApp,
Competition Law
Having examined the privacy implications of Whatsapp's changes to its privacy policy in 2021, this issue brief is the second output in our series examining the effects of those changes. This brief examines the changes in the context of data sharing between Whatsapp and Facebook as being an anticompetitive action in violation of the Indian Competition Act, 2002.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Labour futures: Intersectional responses to southern digital platform economies
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by
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Jan 27, 2021 08:43 AM
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy
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.
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RAW
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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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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Inputs to the Report on the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Dec 30, 2020
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last modified
Dec 30, 2020 09:40 AM
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filed under:
Data Systems,
Privacy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Economy,
Data Governance,
Submissions
This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Report on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework prepared by the Committee of Experts under the Chairmanship of Shri Kris Gopalakrishnan. The inputs are authored by Aayush Rathi, Aman Nair, Ambika Tandon, Pallavi Bedi, Sapni Krishna, and Shweta Mohandas (in alphabetical order), and reviewed by Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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RAW
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IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19
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by
Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office
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published
Sep 17, 2020
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last modified
Jun 29, 2021 07:27 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Labour,
Covid19,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Featured,
Homepage
This report, by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, explores the responses to the outbreak of Covid-19 by digital platform based companies, trade unions, and governments to help out workers for digital platform based companies hereafter app based workers during the lockdown. The research work in this article is a characterization of the struggles of app based workers during the global pandemic and how it has affected and changed the world of work for them. The surveys were conducted amongst the workforce working for app based companies like Ola, Uber, Swiggy, Zomato etc. This study is partially supported by CIS as part of the Feminist Internet Research Network led by the Association for Progressive Communications.
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RAW
