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Research
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25 Mar 2024
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Understanding Feminist Infrastructures: An Exploratory Study of Online Feminist Content Creation Spaces in IndiaThis report explores the growth of feminist infrastructures (including the various interpretations of the term), through research on feminist publishing, content creation and curation spaces and how they have informed the contemporary …
22 Dec 2023
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Unpacking Algorithmic Infrastructures: Mapping the Data Supply Chain in the Healthcare Industry in IndiaThe Unpacking Algorithmic Infrastructures project, supported by a grant from the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab, aims to study the Al data supply chain infrastructure in healthcare in India, and aims to critically analyse auditing …
15 Dec 2023
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User Experiences of Digital Financial Risks and HarmsThe reach and use of digital financial services has risen in recent years without a commensurate increase in digital literacy and access. Through this project, supported by a grant from Google(.)org, we will examine the landscape of …
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 …
27 Jun 2022
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Making Voices HeardWe are happy to announce the launch of our final report on the study ‘Making Voices Heard: Privacy, Inclusivity, and Accessibility of Voice Interfaces in India. The study was undertaken with support from the Mozilla Corporation.
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 …
6 Dec 2021
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Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig EconomyIn response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020.
25 Jun 2021
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IFAT and ITF - Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers’ Occupational Health and SafetyBetween July to November 2019, Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, conducted 2,128 surveys across 6 major cities: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, …
26 Feb 2021
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Sameet Panda - Data Systems in Welfare: Impact of the JAM Trinity on Pension & PDS in Odisha during COVID-19This study by Sameet Panda tries to understand the integration of data and digital systems in welfare delivery in Odisha. It brings out the impact of welfare digitalisation on beneficiaries through primary data collected in November 2020. …
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. …
30 Dec 2020
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Parichiti - Domestic Workers’ Access to Secure Livelihoods in West BengalThis report by Anchita Ghatak of Parichiti presents findings of a pilot study conducted by the author and colleagues to document the situation of women domestic workers (WDWs) in the lockdown and the initial stages of the lifting of …
23 Dec 2020
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Data Lives of Humanities TextThe ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers …
17 Sep 2020
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IFAT and ITF - Locking Down the Impact of Covid-19This report, by Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), New Delhi office, explores the responses to the outbreak of Covid-19 by digital platform based companies, trade …
1 Aug 2020
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Raina Roy and Abhiraj Bag - Kolkata’s trans community has been locked out of healthcare and livelihoodOver six months into the outbreak of Covid-19 in India, it has become clear that the pandemic does not affect everybody equally. It has amplified the sufferings of the already-marginalised trans community. Raina Roy spoke to 10 trans …
30 Jun 2020
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Brindaalakshmi.K - Gendering of Development Data in India: Beyond the BinaryThis report by Brindaalakshmi.K seeks to understand the gendering of development data in India: collection of data and issuance of government (foundational and functional) identity documents to persons identifying outside the cis/binary …
22 Jun 2020
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'I feel the pain of having nowhere to go': A Manipuri Trans Woman Recounts Her Ongoing Lockdown Ordeal"My life and work in Bengaluru came to an abrupt halt with the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown this March. We no longer had jobs and were forced to plan our departure from the city." -- As told to Santa Khurai, Manipur-based queer and Nupi …
16 Jun 2020
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DWRU, BBGS & MKU - The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Invisible Workers of the Household EconomyDomestic Workers Rights Union (DWRU), Bruhat Bangalore Gruhakarmika Sangha (BBGS), and Manegelasa Kaarmikara Union (MKU) have prepared a report on the invisibilisation of domestic workers under the Covid-19 pandemic and a set of demands …
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 …
14 Apr 2020
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Zothan Mawii - COVID-19 and Relief Measures for Gig Workers in IndiaCIS is cohosted a webinar with Tandem Research on the impact of the COVID-19 response on the gig economy on 9 April 2020. It was a closed door discussion between representatives of workers' unions, labour activists, and researchers working …
17 Feb 2020
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Platformisation of Domestic Work in India: Report from a Multistakeholder ConsultationOn November 16, 2019, The Centre for Internet and Society invited officials from the Department of Labour (Government of Karnataka), members of domestic worker unions, domestic workers, company representatives, and civil society researchers …
13 Feb 2020
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Announcing Selected Researchers: Welfare, Gender, and SurveillanceWe published a Call for Researchers on January 10, 2020, to invite applications from researchers interested in writing a narrative essay that interrogates the modes of surveillance that people of LGBTHIAQ+ and gender non-conforming …
5 Feb 2020
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Roundtable on India’s Gig-work EconomyWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
15 Jan 2020
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Noopur Raval and Rajendra Jadhav - Power Chronography of Food-Delivery WorkWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
1 Jan 2020
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Anushree Gupta - Ladies ‘Log’: Women’s Safety and Risk Transfer in RidehailingWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
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, …
18 Dec 2019
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Sarah Zia - Not knowing as pedagogy: Ride-hailing drivers in DelhiWorking in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every …
18 Dec 2019
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Digital Humanities and New Contexts of Digital Archival Practice in IndiaPuthiya Purayil Sneha attended and presented at a conference on 'The Arts, Knowledge, and Critique in the Digital Age in India: Addressing Challenges in the Digital Humanities' organised by Sahapedia and Department of Liberal Arts, Indian …
5 Dec 2019
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Making Voices Heard: Privacy, Inclusivity, and Accessibility of Voice Interfaces in IndiaWe believe that voice interfaces have the potential to democratise the use of internet by addressing barriers such as accessibility concerns, lack of abilities of reading and writing on digital text interfaces, and lack of options for …