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06.10.2025 05:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⚙️ In our latest piece, Madhulika Tatigotla and Eshani Vaidya expose the hidden costs of convenience, uncovering the exploitative labor practices that continue to define Amazon’s warehouse work.
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Don’t miss Nandini Chami in conversation with Susan Sreemala on the stakes for digital justice today!
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Following up on the dispatches from the WSIS high level event in July, Susan Sreemala caught up with Nandini Chami for a substantive debrief on #WSIS, the #GDC, and the future of #digitaljustice on the international stage.
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Have you read Shobhit S.’ transformative proposals for democratic and worker-led digital futures, grounded in collective agency, socio-economic justice, and transnational solidarity?
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Explore how ongoing struggles are forging alternative visions of the digital economy.
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In this second part of the report we published last month, Shobhit S. follows up with a detailed excavation of the political economy of platform work with a framework for mitigating the injustices therein.
15.09.2025 13:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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💻 Our second piece reflects on a year of digital multilateralism and takes stock of where we are in the struggle for digital justice.
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🌍 Our first piece carries on from last month, offering a thoughtful policy framework for regulating platform work internationally.
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The latest issue of DataSyn is here!
This edition engages with the ongoing crises within the digital economy and delves into the path forward. The editorial focuses on the various facets of the AI arms race with an emphasis on the geopolitical tensions between the US and China.
In these dispatches, some of them reflect on key takeaways from the #WSIS+20 HLE, and what it portends for the future.
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This includes a number of the Global Digital Justice Forum’s members, who continued their determined advocacy agenda, participating in and organizing several sessions in recent weeks.
28.08.2025 14:14 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Marking two decades of vigorous activism, this month’s WSIS+20 High Level Event was a significant milestone for many who have long been in the trenches in the struggle for digital justice.
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In our latest article, Shobhit S. situates the global push for standards on platform work within the broader political economy of platform capitalism and the North-South divides that characterize it.
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In this context, our latest article unpacks the global architecture of the platform economy, tracing its visible interfaces and invisible cross-border infrastructures, and suggesting key frontiers for workers’ struggle to future-proof the platform economy.
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The ILO is expected to adopt a binding Convention and a non-binding Recommendation at its 2026 conference, with substantive protections for platform workers.
21.08.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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TAAK (2024) examines how surveillance at the workplace impinges on the privacy of workers, bleeding into their everyday lives.
Our interview with the filmmaker, Udit Khurana, offers a glimpse into how caste and class further propel these ideas of surveillance capitalism.
In our latest piece, writer and director, Udit Khurana discusses his new film, TAAK, which delves into the harms caused by intrusive technologies to workers’ rights, and privacy.
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In this article,Sally Burch traces the WSIS process through decades of social movement history, revealing its enduring significance for civil society’s struggle for digital justice.
#WSIS #DigitalJustice #CivilSociety #InternetGovernance #CommunicationRights #GlobalSouth #TechJustice
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11.08.2025 11:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sally Burch reflects on the WSIS process, situating it within decades of social movement history and underscoring its enduring importance for civil society’s fight for digital justice.
#WSIS #DigitalJustice #CivilSociety #TechForGood #InternetGovernance #CommunicationRights
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Our final piece is a conversation with a filmmaker whose latest film, TAAK, highlights how the politics of digitalization play out on the silver screen.
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Our third piece delves into the significance of the WSIS process and how its key moments frame the stakes of the contemporary struggles for digital justice.
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Our second piece is a series of reflections on the outcomes of WSIS+20 High Level event and what it portends for the struggle for digital justice going forward.
botpopuli.net/dispatches-f...
Our first piece situates the global push for standards on platform work within the broader political economy of platform capitalism and the lived realities of its dispersed workforce.
botpopuli.net/platform-pow...
