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Jobs, Livelihoods, and the Future of Work with SEWA Cooperative Federation
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Feb 161 min read
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Centering Trust in Product Design: Pathways to Involve Community Mediators to Gain and Keep Trust of Low-resource Women Users on Digital Public Infrastructure
Aditi Surie, Achyutha Sharma, Antara Rai This policy brief contains design pathways that will deliver on a shared digital future which...
Feb 31 min read
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Women x Tech: Intermediaries, Design and Literacy in low resource settings
In urban India, 52% of women have ever used the internet, compared to 72% of men ( NFHS, 2021 ). The gender digital divide, –differential...
Feb 33 min read
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Understanding and Improving Women’s Work on Digital Labour Platforms (for ILO, Geneva)
Between 2020 and 2023, I along with my team at IIHS, and Center for Internet and Society were commissioned by the Internatioanl Labour...
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Ecosystems of Engagement: Digital Platforms and Women's Work in Sri Lanka and India
End of Project report for a collaboration between IIHS, Center for Policy Research, World Resources Institute and Lirne Asia. We sought...
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Journal Editorial Boards
I am thrilled to be part of three compelling journal editorial boards that create space for the big debates on an ever digitizing and...
Apr 25, 20241 min read
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Book Talk on Platformization and Informality
IIHS hosted the first book talk for Platformization and Informality with three chapter authors Watch the conversation here:
Aug 8, 20231 min read
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Platformization and Informality: edited book
Editors: Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian, 2023 In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru,...
Aug 8, 20231 min read
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ILO, Geneva: Women, Work, and the Platform Economy: A Global South Perspective
From how we buy groceries and hail a cab, to how we access household services, technology is transforming the way we live and work. Much...
Jun 14, 20231 min read
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Rajasthan’s move spells some hope for gig workers
The initiation of a board is a win for platform workers, but there are many challenges ahead such as covering the gaps in labour...
Jun 14, 20231 min read
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Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy
Open access book on platform design + feminist principles available for download here I was invited to the book launch of ‘Feminist...
Apr 3, 20231 min read
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Bike taxi ban: Drivers bear the brunt of regulations aimed at tech platforms
There is a lag in regulation to every technological innovation. When platforms don’t subscribe to licensing requirements, in this case...
Mar 5, 20231 min read
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Cities of Workers: Understanding Platform Gig Work and Urban Life
Panel Discussion at the Bangalore International Centre hosted by Aapti Institute The growth of the gig platform economy represents a...
Oct 28, 20221 min read
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Why should the Indian platform economy keep a gender disaggregated data?
Global Perspectives on Women, Work and Digital Labour Platforms, a collection of 10 articles written by 26 gig economy experts.
Sep 16, 20221 min read
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Will EdTech go the way of the gig economy?
Published at Femlab.co on October 26, 2021 By Aditi Surie and Krishna Akhil The forced push towards digitization of schooling-related...
Oct 26, 20212 min read
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Delivery Wars: 15-Minute Groceries, Anyone?
The Covid-19 pandemic has turbo-charged the adoption of online grocery by consumers who want superfast delivery – the faster the ...
Oct 21, 20211 min read
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Nagrik Podcast: Labour Organising in Tech - I (Gig and Platform Work)
Aju John's podcast on In August and September of 2020, delivery executives of Swiggy struck work in many Indian cities. They wanted to...
Oct 1, 20212 min read
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Coalitions of Socio-Technical Infrastructure: Platforms as Essential Services
In Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 539–544, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab044 This...
Sep 6, 20211 min read
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No minorities, no meat? Gig economy deepens cities' divides
By Rina Chandran Thomas Reuters reboot-live August 22, 20195:41 AM “In cities, there is already implicit segregation in housing and in...
Sep 1, 20211 min read
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