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An Urgent Call for Fair Working Conditions in Africa
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork; African Platform Workers Representatives (APWR) (2024), 10 pp.
"The APWR calls on regional institutions and national government agencies to consider the following recommendations: 1. Standardise commission rates [...]
2. Mandate platforms to provide risk mitigation strategies and safety nets [...]
3. The contracts and/or terms and conditions must be subject to
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A Review of Policy Options and Scenarios on Philippine Platform Work
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2024), 38 pp.
"The Policy Brief covers pathways for reform of government regulation or public policy with respect to areas applicable to platform workers. These include: a) Laws and statutes enacted by the legislative branch or Congress; and b) Administrative issuances made by the executive branch [...] Further,
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Fairwork India Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy.
Bangalore; Oxford: Fairwork (2024), 39 pp.
"1. Only bigbasket and Urban Company were awarded the first point under Fair Pay for instituting a minimum wage policy that guaranteed all their workers earn at least the hourly local minimum wage after factoring in work-related costs. No platform earned the second point under Fair Pay, which requir
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Mentorship toolkit: Creating sustainable business and funding models with open source AI
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); FAIR Forward - Artificial Intelligence for All (2024), 48 pp.
"This toolkit is designed to help you create and run a successful mentorship program that will support and empower opensource AI entrepreneurs to develop sustainable businesses and funding models for their projects. Open source AI is a rapidly growing field that offers many opportunities for innovat
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Performing Technocapitalism
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Hans Böckler Stiftung (2024), 298 pp.
"In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev
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Fairwork Ecuador Ratings 2023: Working Conditions in Unsafe Contexts
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
Time, January 18 (2023)
"[...] ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI, is now reportedly in talks with investors to raise funds at a $29 billion valuation, including a potential $10 billion investment by Microsoft. That would make OpenAI, which was founded in San Francisco in 2015 with the aim of building superintelligent machines, o
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Fairwork Egypt Ratings 2022/23: Platform Workers Amidst Egypt's Economic Crisis
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 51 pp.
Fairwork Mexico Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
Mexico; Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
"An urgent finding of this first Fairwork Mexico report was impact platform work has on the physical and mental health of workers. Indeed, in megacities like Mexico City, and in urban environments marked by traffic congestion, pollution and fast-paced city life, workers’ bodies are being reduced t
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Fairwork South Africa Ratings 2023: Advocating for Safety and Dignity in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Albania Ratings 2023: Assessing Work in the Albanian Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 35 pp.
Fairwork Colombia Ratings 2023: The Mobilities of Gig Work in Colombia
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Bosnia and Herzegovina Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
Fairwork Brazil Ratings 2023: Still Pursuing Decent Work in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 47 pp.
Fairwork Uganda Ratings 2023: A Need for Pro-Worker Change
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 33 pp.
"In 2023, Fairwork conducted the first year of research in Uganda among twelve selected digital platforms. The selected platforms are in the sectors of ride hailing and food delivery. The research and rating of platforms was done as per the five Fairwork principles." (Executive Summary)
Fairwork Indonesia Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
