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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22) - Proposed Sessions
- March 17, 2022
Here is the list of sessions proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
Read more →The State of the Internet's Languages Report
- March 07, 2022
The first-ever State of the Internet’s Languages Report was launched by Whose Knowledge? on February 23, 2022 (just after the International Mother Language day), along with research partners Oxford Internet Institute and the Centre for Internet and Society. This extraordinarily community-sourced effort, with over 100 people involved is now available online, with translations in multiple languages.
Read more →To be Counted When They Count You: Words of Caution for the Gender Data Revolution
- February 01, 2022
In 2015, after the announcement of the SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals, a new global developmental framework through the year 2030, the United Nations described data as the “lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for accountability” for the purpose of realizing these developmental goals. This curious yet key link between these new developmental goals and the use of quantitative data for agenda setting invited a flurry of big data-led initiatives such as but not limited to Data2X, that sought to further strengthen and solidify the relationship between ‘Big Development’ and ‘Big Data.’
Read more →Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping Report
- January 04, 2022
Gig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more →Gender and gig work: Perspectives from domestic work in India
- December 07, 2021
Platforms have the potential to be instrumental in protecting workers rights, but the current platform design is not optimised to protect workers’ interests especially those of women in the gig economy, argues Ambika Tandon, a senior researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society in India and an author of the report on ‘Platforms, Power and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India’.
Read more →AI in the Future of Work
- December 07, 2021
Artificial Intelligence and allied technologies form part of what is being called the fourth Industrial Revolution.
Read more →Practicing Feminist Principles
- December 07, 2021
AI can serve to challenge social inequality and dismantle structures of power.
Read more →Are India’s much-lauded startups failing their women workers?
- December 06, 2021
Recent protests outside Urban Company’s head office highlight the gendered nature of work in the country’s digital economy.
Read more →Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig Economy
- December 06, 2021
In response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020.
Read more →#CultureForAll Conference on Cultural Mapping
- September 20, 2021
Sahapedia is organising the #CultureForAll Conference on Cultural Mapping, digitally on September 28 and 29, 2021. The conference will take place in collaboration with the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Azim Premji University, the Centre for Internet and Society, and the Re-Centring Afro Asia project at the University of Cape Town.
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