Author
Aayush Rathi
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15 Oct 2024
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Platforming precarity: Data narratives of workers sustaining urban platform servicesCIS conducted quantitative surveys with over 800 workers employed in the app-based taxi and delivery sectors across 4 cities in India as part of the ‘Labour Futures’ project supported by the Internet Society Foundation. The surveys covered …
18 Apr 2024
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The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban IndiaAmbika Tandon and Aayush Rathi contributed an essay on how gated society management apps like MyGate and NoBrokerHood feed on caste and income inequalities in new datafied forms. The essay features in The Formalization of Social …
15 Feb 2024
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Workers’ experiences in app-based taxi and delivery sectors: Key initial findings from multi-city quantitative surveysIn 2021-22, the labour research vertical at CIS conducted quantitative surveys with over 1,000 taxi and delivery workers employed in the app-based and offline sectors. The surveys covered key employment indicators, including earnings and …
3 Jul 2023
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Metaphors of Work, from ‘Below’Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon authored a chapter that describes platforms as more than technological interfaces. The chapter invokes some of the metaphors that gig workers use to make sense of platforms. This chapter was part of an edited …
16 Apr 2022
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Feminist Design PracticesAayush Rathi and Akash Sheshadri and Ambika Tandon co-authored a research paper on 'Feminist Design Practices' which was published in a special issue of Apria, a peer-reviewed journal hosted at ArtEZ University. The special issue "Feminist …
1 Apr 2022
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Comments to the draft Motor Vehicle Aggregators Scheme, 2021This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Motor Vehicle Aggregators Scheme, 2021 published by the Transport Department, Government of National Capital Territory of …
27 Jun 2021
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Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in IndiaCIS has been undertaking a two-year project studying the entry of digital platforms in the domestic and care work in India, supported by the Association for Progressive Communications as part of the Feminist Internet Research Network. …
25 Jan 2021
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Reclaiming the right to privacy: Researching the intersection of privacy and genderIt was our privilege to be supported by Privacy International, UK, during 2019-2020, to undertake a research project focusing on reproductive health and data surveillance, and to engage on related topics with national civil society groups. …
31 Dec 2020
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Labour futures: Intersectional responses to southern digital platform economiesIt is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a two-year research project to comprehensively analyse dominant and emerging sectors in India’s platform economies. The project is funded by a research grant of USD 200,000 from …
23 Dec 2020
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Gender, Health, & Surveillance in India - A Panel DiscussionWomen and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons face intensive and varied forms of surveillance as they access reproductive health systems. Increasingly, these systems are also undergoing rapid digitisation. The panel was set-up to discuss the …
22 Dec 2020
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Inputs to the public consultation on the draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020 - Joint submission by an alliance of trade unions and civil society organisationsThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) contributed to a joint submission by IT for Change and various trade union and civil society organisations in response to the public consultation of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on the …
19 May 2020
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A Compilation of Research on the Gig EconomyOver the past year, researchers at CIS have been studying gig economies and gig workers in India. Their work has involved consultative discussions with domestic workers, food delivery workers, taxi drivers, trade union leaders, and …
30 Apr 2020
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From Health and Harassment to Income Security and Loans, India's Gig Workers Need SupportDeemed an 'essential service' by most state governments, and thereby exempt from temporary suspension during the COVID-19 lockdown, food, groceries and other essential commodities have continued to be delivered by e-commerce companies and …
30 Apr 2020
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COVID-19 Charter Of Recommendations on Gig WorkTandem Research and the Centre for Internet and Society organised a webinar on 9 April 2020, with unions representing gig workers and researchers studying labour rights and gig work, to uncover the experiences of gig workers during the …
5 Mar 2020
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‘Future of Work’ in India’s IT/IT-es SectorThe Centre for Internet and Society has recently undertaken research into the impact of Industry 4.0 on work in India. Industry 4.0, for the purposes of the research, is conceptualised as the technical integration of cyber physical systems …
30 Dec 2019
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Is India's Digital Health System Foolproof?This contribution by Aayush Rathi builds on "Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?" (by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon, EPW Engage, Vol. 54, Issue No. 6, 09 Feb, …
27 Oct 2019
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Comments to the Code on Social Security, 2019This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet & Society, India (CIS) to the draft Code on Social Security, 2019 (hereinafter “ Draft Code ”) prepared by the Government of India’s Ministry of Labour and …
24 Oct 2019
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Comments to the United Nations Human Rights Commission Report on Gender and PrivacyThis submission to UNHRC presents a response by researchers at the CIS to ‘gender issues arising in the digital era and their impacts on women, men and individuals of diverse sexual orientations gender identities, gender expressions and sex …
10 Oct 2019
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Doing Standpoint TheoryFeminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist standpoint theory, feminist empiricism, and feminist relativism. Standpoint …
1 Oct 2019
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Digital mediation of domestic and care work in India: Project AnnouncementIt is our great pleasure to announce that we are undertaking a study on digital mediation of domestic and care work in India, as part of and supported by the Feminist Internet Research Network led by the Association for Progressive …
27 Sep 2019
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Capturing Gender and Class Inequities: The CCTVisation of DelhiAmbika Tandon and Aayush Rathi generated empirical evidence about the CCTV programme well underway in Delhi. The case study was published by Centre for Development Informatics, Global Development Institute, SEED, in the Development …
1 Sep 2019
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Doing Standpoint TheoryFeminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist standpoint theory, feminist empiricism, and feminist relativism.
31 Aug 2019
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Future of Work in the ASEANA literature review of the future of work in automotive manufacturing and IT services in the ASEAN region, authored by Aayush Rathi, Vedika Pareek, Divij Joshi, and Pranav M B.
29 Aug 2019
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Kashmir’s information vacuumLegislative backing is being appropriated to normalise communication shutdowns.
7 Aug 2019
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Comments on the National Digital Health BlueprintThe Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had released the National Digital Health Blueprint on 15 July 2019 for comments. The Centre for Internet & Society submitted its comments.
30 Jul 2019
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The Digital Identification ParadeNCRB’s proposed Automated Facial Recognition System impinges on right to privacy, is likely to target certain groups.
20 Jun 2019
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Unpacking video-based surveillance in New DelhiAayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon presented at an international workshop on 'Urban Data, Inequality and Justice in the Global South', on 14 June 2019, at the University of Manchester. The agenda for the workshop and the slides from the …
2 May 2019
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How privacy fares in the 2019 election manifestos | OpinionWe now have a rights-based language around privacy in the mainstream political discourse but that’s where it ends.
30 Apr 2019
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FinTech in India: A Study of Privacy and Security CommitmentsThe unprecedented growth of the fintech space in India has concomitantly come with regulatory challenges around inter alia privacy and security concerns. This report studies the privacy policies of 48 fintech companies operating in India to …
14 Feb 2019
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Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” …