---------- Forwarded message --------- From: IT for Change <[email protected]> Date: Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:20 PM Subject: Bot Populi's Special May Day Series To: <[email protected]> A deep dive into the intersections of labor, the digital economy, and the Covid pandemic. *Mayday!* We might only be at the cusp of the economic crisis that has been brewing within the belly of the Covid pandemic, but it is already starting to blow up around the world. In this special series on Bot Populi, we bring you a range of incisive analyses that combine critique, prognosis, hope, and even anger. Check them out here <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=0722967898&e=3bd86fc969> . Our effort has been to take a deep dive into the intersections of labor, the digital economy, and the Covid pandemic through engaging and critical long and short reads and interviews that delve into various facets of worker rights in the global economic context. This crisis has seen millions across nations, rich and poor, sliding into unemployment over the past six weeks. Livelihoods that are not essential in a time of global lockdown are no longer viable. Informal workers at the very edges – farm and wage workers, and micro entrepreneurs – are struggling with lack of access to work. Even as precarity looms large over their future, gig workers are battling it out on the frontlines as the world orders in everything. Never has there been a more important or urgent time to talk about labor. Scroll down for highlights from our series. Also check out more articles over at Bot Populi’s New Precariat track <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=79e538b73a&e=3bd86fc969> . *Feature articles* ‘Crowds as Code’ in the Global Data Value Chain <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=a2d283099d&e=3bd86fc969> Kai-Hsin Hung, a PhD Scholar at HEC Montreal, takes us behind the scenes into the hidden world of data-based microworkers whose labor fuels some of the world’s most complex and elegant AI solutions. A 3-Point Agenda for Platform Workers; as if the South Matters <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=1eec72a978&e=3bd86fc969> Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami of IT for Change outline a new labor rights agenda for platform workers—an alternative to the mainstream model, defined and led by the Global South. Networked Desolation in Indonesia’s Platform Tourism Industry <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=c70c612fa9&e=3bd86fc969> Caitlin Bentley, Research Fellow at Australian National University walks us through the cracks in Indonesia’s travel industry in the aftermath of tourism platforms and now, the Covid crisis. A Catch-22 for On-Demand Cleaners in the Philippines <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=1a3799ed81&e=3bd86fc969> Jessamine Pacis of the Foundation for Media Alternatives identifies a paradox of sorts of on-demand domestic work amid this crisis - greater emphasis on cleanliness and greater precarity for workers. How Public Sector Workers and Unions can Shape the Digital Economy <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=3924e390b9&e=3bd86fc969> Parminder Jeet Singh of IT for Change argues for collective ownership rights over data by communities and workers as a vital means through which to shape a greater role for the public sector in a digital society. Precarity in Times of Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Crisis in India’s Informal Labor Markets <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=f42f1f160b&e=3bd86fc969> What happens when the world’s second most populous country goes on lock down. Sohel Sarkar and Deepti Bharthur examine the ways in which the pandemic has disrupted the livelihood’s of India’s vast informal labor force. *In conversation with...* Securing Data and Labor Rights in the Post-Covid Digital Era <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=6255eb0767&e=3bd86fc969> Daniel Bertossa of Public Services International speaks to us about how the Covid-19 crisis is precipitating an organic build-up of solidarity among various worker movements and PSI's strategies to meet the challenges of the post-Covid digital era. Uncertainties Galore in the Post-Pandemic Labor Market <https://itforchange.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6fd97454ef6c0671ea92b5cb4&id=a5980c77c6&e=3bd86fc969> Sabina Dewan of the Justjobs Network analyses the mid to long-term impact of the pandemic on global labor markets, and the possible outcomes for a post-Covid future of work. 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