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Blog Entry Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping Report — by Kaarika Das and Srravya C — last modified Jan 04, 2022 03:06 PM
Gig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Blog Entry Gender and gig work: Perspectives from domestic work in India — by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 02:11 AM
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’.
Blog Entry AI in the Future of Work — by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 01:51 AM
Artificial Intelligence and allied technologies form part of what is being called the fourth Industrial Revolution.
Blog Entry Practicing Feminist Principles — by Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 07, 2021 12:54 AM
AI can serve to challenge social inequality and dismantle structures of power.
Blog Entry Are India’s much-lauded startups failing their women workers? — by Abhishek Sekharan and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 06, 2021 04:24 PM
Recent protests outside Urban Company’s head office highlight the gendered nature of work in the country’s digital economy.
Blog Entry Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig Economy — by Kaarika Das and Srravya C — last modified Dec 06, 2021 04:04 PM
In response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020.
Blog Entry #CultureForAll Conference on Cultural Mapping — by Sneha PP — last modified Sep 20, 2021 03:18 PM
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.
June and July Newsletter — by Pranav M B — last modified Aug 10, 2021 03:57 PM
The newsletter presents the work done in the months of June and July 2021.
Blog Entry Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India — by Aayush Rathi, and Ambika Tandon — last modified Jul 07, 2021 03:19 PM
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.
Blog Entry IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and Safety — by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office — last modified Jun 29, 2021 06:53 AM
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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