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IT for Change
Platform Predicament – Making sense of a datafied future of work
The largest businesses of the world today are set up on the platform model. It is often said that the modern-day capitalist does not own the means of production, but the means of “connection”, and that’s exactly what platform companies such as Amazon, Uber, DoorDash, TopCoder and Zomato do.It’s worth noting, that Since 2010, there has been a five-fold rise globally in the number of such digital labour platforms that facilitate online work The global south has a large part of this share.These platform companies are the new, invisible bosses in this datafied world of work,...
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The third episode talks about possible alternatives to the neoliberal platform-based model of work that is prevalent, today. As examples, the episode highlights SEWA's ongoing journey of evolving the platform model according to its members' needs, Labournet’s pilot platforms geared towards making...
Published 12/20/22
The third episode talks about possible alternatives to the neoliberal platform-based model of work that is prevalent, today. As examples, the episode highlights SEWA's ongoing journey of evolving the platform model according to its members' needs, Labournet’s pilot platforms geared towards making...
Published 12/20/22
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