On October 8th, we’re launching the Inclusive AI Group alongside @3Lmantra insightful book -From Pessimism to Promise.
Join this global conversation on the future of AI. You can join in person or online!
👉 Register now: shorturl.at/w1awj
Excited to announce that FEMLAB team member Sai Amulya's paper, "Men in Beauty Care Work and Feminisation of Digital Labour Platforms," has been accepted for presentation at NCA'24! @Wits_SCIS 🎉 It explores how caste and gender shape beauty work in South Asia's platform economy.
This highlights the need to:
1Historicize platform work.
2Understand it through the lenses of dignity, respectability, region, caste, class, and gender.
3Consider work conditions beyond the immediate context.
4. Recognise that the glass escalator effect is not equally accessible to all men in traditionally female-dominated jobs.
5.Situate the feminization of the platform economy within the framework of coloniality and caste power dynamics.
The current approach has resulted in many African cities becoming testbeds for new, untested, and sometimes unregulated technologies, as governments strive to constantly "catch up" with current trends edgelands.institute/blog/mov…@EdgelandsInst
'Children’s Digital Experiences in Indian Slums' by Kiran Vinod Bhatia departs from the rescue narratives of poor children and technologies, offering complex stories on how social identities and cultural norms influence their digital experiences.
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From regulatory complexities to algorithmic exploitation and gender disparities, we discuss how transformations in the digital economy continue to have implications on workers' rights.
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What does it mean to distinguish work and workers into 'formal' and 'informal'? And how does the digital gig/platform economy exacerbate issues of labor #dignity?
Listen to episode 2 of #FemWork with @usharaman & @sabinadewan: bit.ly/3vNwneq