Policy frameworks for digital platforms - Moving from openness to inclusion

Making Travel Platforms Work for Indonesian Workers and Small Businesses

2020 - Ongoing

This research details how Indonesians working in the tourism sector are included or excluded from the travel platform economy. It investigates why these actors are choosing to use travel platforms and how they express the benefits and constraints in this context. Inclusion in the platform…

Digitization and Domestic Work: The Policy Environment in the Philippines

2020 - Ongoing

In recent years, the Philippines has seen a trend of platformization in domestic and care work through small-scale digital platforms that offer on-demand cleaning services. The nascent and informal nature of this system has given rise to new modes of employment and labor relationships that do…

Deliver on the Promise of the Platform Economy

2020 - Ongoing

This paper examines the influence of digital platforms on Chinese workers across two booming on-demand service industries: ride-hailing and food-delivery. Though digital platforms have attracted considerable scholarly and legal attention in the past few years, this project is among one of the…

Investigating Labor Policy Frameworks for Ride-Hailing Platforms

2020 - Ongoing

This research project investigates the institutional, policy and operational dynamics of ride-hailing platforms in South Africa. A limited number of studies on platform economies in African nations have been conducted from business and economics perspectives that often do not focus on issues of…

Protection of Users in the Platform Economy: A European Perspective

2019 - Ongoing

This report aims to investigate the current gaps in protection suffered by users of the platform economy in Europe and to propose legal solutions. The research particularly focuses on the inequalities (understood as information asymmetries affecting the weak party) and unfair practices…

Rebooting Indian Tourism in a Post-Covid Economy: A Policy Brief

2020 - Ongoing

The tourism industry across the world is staring at bleak prospects in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In India, the sector is staring at a potential loss of Rs 1.25 trillion over the next two quarters while 38 million jobs stand in grave danger in the coming months.

In 2019, we…

Background paper on Policy frameworks for digital platforms

2017 - Ongoing

In this background paper, IT for Change maps the key issues/concerns for the rights and inclusion agenda, stemming from pervasive platformization.…

Mid-Project Reflections Report: Policies for the platform economy: Current trends and future directions

2018 - Ongoing

This report presents emerging insights from the research studies being undertaken under the project. Covering 14 countries and a range of domains and sectors, it examines the…

Research Framework: Policy frameworks for digital platforms - Moving from openness to inclusion

2018 - Ongoing

This document puts forth a research framework for ‘Policy Frameworks for Digital Platforms - Moving from Openness to Inclusion’. It outlines and clarifies the key concepts invoked in…