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As digital labour platforms continue to expand across Asia, debates on the future of work often circle back to a familiar reference point: ride-hailing apps such as Uber. But focusing on one dominant model can obscure more than it reveals—particularly in countries like India, where platform work has taken on diverse forms across sectors such as home-based services, education, logistics, agriculture, and healthcare. This was the central argument of a recent FutureWORKS Asia kn

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Aditi Surie, Achyutha Sharma, Antara Rai This policy brief contains design pathways that will deliver on a shared digital future which...

In urban India, 52% of women have ever used the internet, compared to 72% of men ( NFHS, 2021 ). The gender digital divide, –differential...

Between 2020 and 2023, I along with my team at IIHS, and Center for Internet and Society were commissioned by the Internatioanl Labour...

End of Project report for a collaboration between IIHS, Center for Policy Research, World Resources Institute and Lirne Asia. We sought...

I am thrilled to be part of three compelling journal editorial boards that create space for the big debates on an ever digitizing and...

IIHS hosted the first book talk for Platformization and Informality with three chapter authors Watch the conversation here:

Editors: Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian, 2023 In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru,...

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...

The initiation of a board is a win for platform workers, but there are many challenges ahead such as covering the gaps in labour...

Open access book on platform design + feminist principles available for download here I was invited to the book launch of ‘Feminist...

There is a lag in regulation to every technological innovation. When platforms don’t subscribe to licensing requirements, in this case...

Panel Discussion at the Bangalore International Centre hosted by Aapti Institute The growth of the gig platform economy represents a...

Global Perspectives on Women, Work and Digital Labour Platforms, a collection of 10 articles written by 26 gig economy experts.

Published at Femlab.co on October 26, 2021 By Aditi Surie and Krishna Akhil The forced push towards digitization of schooling-related...

The Covid-19 pandemic has turbo-charged the adoption of online grocery by consumers who want superfast delivery – the faster the ...

Aju John's podcast on In August and September of 2020, delivery executives of Swiggy struck work in many Indian cities. They wanted to...

In Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 539–544, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab044 This...