Research articles on DIVERSITY

Gendered digitalisation in the Social and Solidarity Economy

Nuria Vega-Rodríguez, Open University of Catalonia
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2072

This study demonstrates that digitalisation within Social and Solidarity Economy organisations reproduces the sexual division of labour, with men continuing to dominate both the more technical and specialised competences as well as the most technically oriented positions.

Kudumbashree's Lunch Bell project and digital solidarity economy in Kerala, India

Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, University of Toronto
Priyank Chandra, University of Toronto
Fibin Filal, Independent researcher
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2071

This study examines the Lunch Bell project, a state-supported, women-centred meal delivery platform in Kerala, India, embodying a digital solidarity economy that promotes sustainability and addresses gender inequalities through its inclusive labour model.

Based on a digital-urban ethnography of two queer spaces in Hong Kong, this paper argues that material, affective, and cultural forms of reproductive work with digital platforms illuminate both the tensions and potentials of platformised solidarity economies.

Beyond platform capitalism: Digital solidarity economy and free culture networks in Argentina and Brazil

Leonardo Foletto, University of São Paulo
Daniel Santini, University of São Paulo
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2061

This article shows how Latin American experience is an essential reference for why free culture principles are essential to the idea and the concept of the digital solidarity economy.

Engineering platform cooperativism: Contributions from the Brazilian solidarity economy

Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Marcelo Alves de Souza, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Camilla de Godoi, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Flávio Chedid Henriques, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2051

This study reveals how conventional digital platforms hinder worker collectives, and how engineering, reimagined through solidarity, can build cooperative alternatives from the ground up.

Solidarity across borders: Decoding the functionality of CoopCycle in Latin America

Alexandra Belén Gualavisí, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO Ecuador)
Daniel Vizuete-Sandoval, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO Ecuador)
PUBLISHED ON: 6 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2040

This paper analyses CoopCycle’s adaptation processes across Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, showing how solidarity, as a programmatic idea, shapes socio-technical change and challenges dominant models of the digital economy.

Beyond silos: Bridging the gap between law and software engineering – challenges, successes, and lesson drawing

Martina Siclari, University of Luxembourg
Salomé Lannier, University of Luxembourg
Olivier Voordeckers, University of Luxembourg
Stanisław Tosza, University of Luxembourg
Sallam Abualhaija, University of Luxembourg
Marcello Ceci, University of Luxembourg
Nicolas Sannier, University of Luxembourg
Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Nov 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.4.2042

Building flexible tools to approach law for interdisciplinary requirements extraction in software engineering.

Who’s at stake? The (non)performativity of “stakeholders” in UK tech policy

Maisy Taylor, University of York
Sarah Vollmer, University of Utrecht
Zaynab Ravat, Solent University
Garfield Benjamin, University of Cambridge
PUBLISHED ON: 4 Sep 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.3.2033

Tech policy often makes appeals to the interests of stakeholders, but in this study we show the different forms of power that are performed through the use of this term in UK tech policy.

Follow along as Members of the European Parliament navigate bias and discrimination in AI and explore their perspectives on regulatory measures, shedding light on the complexities of their understanding and paving the path towards informed policy development.