Policy frameworks for digital platforms - Moving from openness to inclusion
Background paper on Policy frameworks for digital platforms
In this background paper, IT for Change maps the key issues/concerns for the rights and inclusion agenda, stemming from pervasive platformization.…
Background paper: Policy frameworks for digital platforms - Moving from openness to inclusion
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Understanding platformization
Platformization is a key facet of the global economy today…
Policy Frameworks for Digital Platforms: Moving from Openness to Inclusion
Platforms are to the network age what the factory was to the industrial revolution. From popular imagination to research activity, there is a palpable sense of a new turn in economic reorganization, implicating productivity, growth, jobs and skills in the future economy. The dominant mood is…
Research Framework: Policy frameworks for digital platforms - Moving from openness to inclusion
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…
Mid-Project Reflections Report: Policies for the platform economy: Current trends and future directions
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…
Launching Platform Planet: Development in the Intelligence Economy
The platform model has emerged as a game…
Rebooting Indian Tourism in a Post-Covid Economy: A Policy Brief
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…
Protection of Users in the Platform Economy: A European Perspective
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…
Investigating Labor Policy Frameworks for Ride-Hailing Platforms
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…
Deliver on the Promise of the Platform Economy
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…