Jonathan Donner
@jcd
As Director of the Caribou Digital Institute, I am a researcher, author, and consultant focused on advancing digital inclusion in the majority world.
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Large language models cannot replace human participants because they cannot portray identity groups
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Could you make it as an Uber driver?
ig.ft.comFeeling Proud, Feeling Embarrassed: Experiences of Low-income Women with Crowd Work
The document explores the experiences of low-income women in India engaging with crowd work platforms and examines the challenges and opportunities they face.
adityavashistha.comWomen’s economic empowerment is central to gender equality.
However, work opportunities available to low-income women in
patriarchal societies are infrequent. While crowd work has the
potential to increase labor participation of such women, much
remains unknown about their engagement with crowd work and
the resultant opportunities and tensions. To fll this gap, we critically
examined the adoption and use of a crowd work platform by low-
income women in India. Through a qualitative study, we found
that women faced tremendous challenges, for example, in seeking
permission from family members to do crowd work, lack of family
support and encouragement, and often working in unfavorable
environments where they had to hide their work lives. While crowd
work took a toll on their physical and emotional wellbeing, it also
led to increased confdence, agency, and autonomy. We discuss
ways to reduce frictions and tensions in participation of low-income
women on crowd work platforms.
we gathered data from gig work ers working for Uber and Zomato in India , and from secondary sources on gig work in India. Some workers were able to realise capabilities such as decent income, freedom from ill -health and exclusion, and skill development. However, others were not, and t here were general constraints on achievement of capabilities... See more
Hiroto Yanaka • Analysing the Development Impact of the Gig Economy using Sen’s Capability Approach: A Case Study of the Physical Gig Economy in India
Platform workers as infrastructures of global technologies | ACM Interactions
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AR features in mobile apps are plagued by usability issues such as poor discoverability and findability of items with AR, low-visibility instructions, or vague icons and signifiers
Raluca Budiu • The Usability of Augmented Reality
Mobile internet and income improvement: Evidence from Vietnam
The paper analyzes the positive economic impacts of mobile Internet adoption in Vietnam, highlighting its effects on household income, employment, and wage growth, particularly in lower-income and rural areas.
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