Three of Caribou Digital’s Medium channels provide discussions and analysis of platform livelihoods.
A variety of research groups and civil society organizations are contributing to the broader conversations around platform work and platform sales in the Global South.
Instituton | Projects | About | Partnership for Finance in a Digital Africa | Microentrepreneurs in the Platform Era | Earlier work by Caribou Digital that looks specifically at platform sales in Kenya |
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Caribou Digital | Platform-Led Upskilling | Explores how platforms around the world upskill individual workers and sellers, even outside a traditional employer – employee relationship |
Tufts University | Are new jobs good jobs? | Various writings from Julie Zollmann’s Ph.D. project on ‘good’ platform work in Kenya |
Oxford Internet Institute and the ILO | Fairwork | “Fairwork is committed to highlighting best and worst practices in the emerging platform economy. In a partnership with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), [It has] brought together platforms, workers, trade unions, regulators, and academics to set global principles of fair work in the platform economy.” |
International Labour Organization | Digital Platforms and the Future of Work | The ILO is a rich source of research and policy guidance on livelihoods and “digital platforms” |
University of Manchester | Development Implications of Digital Economies (DIODE) Strategic Research Network | Dozens of researchers sharing insights about digitization and platformization in the Global South |
cenfri and Finmark Trust | Insight2Impact – Platforms Research | Several studies of platform work in sub-Saharan Africa |
CIDE and CIPPEC | Future of Work in the Global South | Studies and a knowledge network on platformization and the future of work |
IT for Change | Platforms Research | A long-running and generative set of studies and policy analyses on platformization and the Global South. For an overview see “Platform Planet” |
UNCTAD | Digital Economy Report 2019 | Broad analysis of links between platformization, value creation, and equitable and inclusive development |
BFA | iWorkers and Livelihoods | BFA’s studies in this area link ‘superplatorms’ to the livelihoods of MSEs and individual platform workers |
Research ICT Africa | Platform research at Research ICT Africa | Research ICT Africa has authored several analyses of how platformization impacts livelihoods in sub Saharan Africa |
LIRNEasia | Future of Work, and SMEs research at LIRNEasia | LIRNEasia has produced several analysis of the impacts of platformization on livelihoods in S. Asia and beyond |