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.
Research articles on DIVERSITY
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.
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.
This study reveals how conventional digital platforms hinder worker collectives, and how engineering, reimagined through solidarity, can build cooperative alternatives from the ground up.
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.
Building flexible tools to approach law for interdisciplinary requirements extraction in software engineering.
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.
The paper contributes to the further development of platform studies by looking at the early stages of development. It draws on insights from an exemplary research and innovation project that aimed to develop a "diversity-aware online social platform".
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.