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Centering Trust in Product Design: Pathways to Involve Community Mediators to Gain and Keep Trust of Low-resource Women Users on Digital Public Infrastructure
Aditi Surie, Achyutha Sharma, Antara Rai This policy brief contains design pathways that will deliver on a shared digital future which...
Feb 31 min read
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Understanding and Improving Women’s Work on Digital Labour Platforms (for ILO, Geneva)
Between 2020 and 2023, I along with my team at IIHS, and Center for Internet and Society were commissioned by the Internatioanl Labour...
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Ecosystems of Engagement: Digital Platforms and Women's Work in Sri Lanka and India
End of Project report for a collaboration between IIHS, Center for Policy Research, World Resources Institute and Lirne Asia. We sought...
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Journal Editorial Boards
I am thrilled to be part of three compelling journal editorial boards that create space for the big debates on an ever digitizing and...
Apr 25, 20241 min read
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Platformization and Informality: edited book
Editors: Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian, 2023 In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru,...
Aug 8, 20231 min read
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Coalitions of Socio-Technical Infrastructure: Platforms as Essential Services
In Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 539–544, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab044 This...
Sep 6, 20211 min read
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On-demand platforms and pricing: how platforms can impact the informal urban economy
Journal article published in Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Vol 14, Issue 1 Pricing is the one of the most powerful...
Jul 24, 20201 min read
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Emerging Nature of Work in the Platform Economy: Evidence from Bengaluru, Karnataka
This paper investigates the work experiences, perceptions of security and risk of platform economy drivers in Bengaluru, India from a...
Sep 15, 20191 min read
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Climate change, Agrarian distress, and the role of digital labour markets: evidence from Bengaluru
In this article, we explore the use of the digital labour market set up by mobility platforms in Bengaluru, Karnataka, as a mechanism to...
Jul 19, 20192 min read
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Are Ola and Uber Drivers Entrepreneurs or Exploited Workers?
Early 2017 was a difficult period for Ola and Uber drivers: Their earnings plummeted[1] by 30-45% throwing their economic planning and...
Jul 19, 20191 min read
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Tech in Work: Organising Informal Work in India
The “platform economies” of today can provide traditional informal sector workers the opportunity to formalise and organise their work....
Jul 19, 20191 min read
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