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Jun 11
Read 'Knowledge Futures' on Bot Populi. A series that asks what it means to govern Artificial Intelligence for the cultural commons beyond intellectual property.
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Jun 11
The series brings together expert voices and was commissioned to inform the development of the issue brief by IT for Change, ‘Governing AI for the Cultural Commons: Beyond Intellectual Property’,
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Jun 11
under the AI, Culture and Intellectual Property Subgroup of the UNESCO Global Civil Society Organizations (CSO) and Academic Network on AI Ethics and Policy. New article every Wednesday!
Read here: botpopuli.net/llm-extractivi…
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Jun 1
#NewsletterAlert
From the BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations meeting in New Delhi to the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, there is a broad consensus...
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Jun 1
This month’s editorial sheds light on the anticlimactic character of the Trump-Xi Summit and the potential impact of the widely anticipated IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Jun 1
Read the full issue here: open.substack.com/pub/datasy…
#Labour #PlatformCoops #WTO #Ecommerce #GigWorkers #Brazil #India
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May 26
ASHA workers across the country have been protesting for better pay, increased incentives, and more recognition for their key role as the backbone of India’s public health system. Just this week, the state of Kerala announced an Rs 3000 hike for these community healthcare workers
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May 26
The experiences of ASHAs show a complex algorithmic control embedded in the public sector and welfare work, especially where women work from the margins of formal recognition.
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May 26
Read the full story here: datasyn.substack.com/p/when-…
#ASHAWorkers #DigitalLabour #LaborIndia #IndianWorkers #TechPolicy #PlatformEconomhy
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May 15
Ruth Castel-Branco, explores how labor organizing in Africa is adapting to the realities of platform work where solidarity has to be built across apps, algorithms, and isolation.
Read more: open.substack.com/pub/datasy…
#GigWork #PlatformEconomy #LaborRights #FutureOfWork #TechPolicy
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May 13
Placed at the faultline between technological change & political choice, platform work has become a crucial battleground within the modern labor movement.
What's at stake is not only the future of millions of platform workers in Europe, but the credibility of labor law itself.
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May 13
She calls upon workers to lobby for their interests just as platforms lobby for theirs. Fair rules for platform work cannot come to fruition without listening to platform workers. Anything else is regulation without reality.
Find out what’s at stake for platform workers.
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May 13
Read the full story here: datasyn.substack.com/p/worke…
#GigWork #PlatformEconomy #LaborRights #FutureOfWork #DigitalLabor #GigWorkers #TechPolicy #PlatformCapitalism
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