Labour futures: Intersectional policy making for the platform economy

25 July 2025
Image with silhouettes of people.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS This project set out to achieve the following main research questions: 1. What are the determinants and characteristics, historical and emergent, of digital platform entities’ recruitment, workforce management, and economic value creation strategies? 2. What institutional roles, vis-à-vis civil society, markets, and the state, are digital platform entities in the global south(s) occupying…

Online Mental Health and the Future of Therapeutic Labor

25 July 2025
Online Mental Health: a man is talking with his psychologist online.

RESEARCH QUESTION  The research asks how the work of mental health professionals is changing as they increasingly provide services through online digital platforms, and how such shifts impact therapeutic expertise, therapeutic labor, and professional practice.  The project aims to understand how the work of mental healthcare professionals is changing as it moves to teletherapy and…

Internet Poverty Index (IPI): Methodology, Additional Granularity, Interactive Data Platform & Annual Rankings

25 July 2025

RESEARCH QUESTION  In order to further support the equitable increase of global Internet usage, this research project leverages the current Internet Poverty Index (IPI) — developed by World Data Lab (WDL) with support from the Internet Society Foundation — and upgrades its features to analyze and model with greater granularity the segments of the population…

Incentivized network and localized services growth with mutual credit-based community vouchers

25 July 2025
Abstract representation of the project - helping to build connections between people who want to trade using a community currency and share local knowledge or digital resources using our iNethi cloud platform

RESEARCH QUESTION  The question that is addressed in this research is: Can a decentralized mutual credit-based community voucher combined with a community network and localized services incentivize (i) custodianship of commons infrastructure, (ii) creation of more locally generated digital content, and (iii) act as a catalyst to the stability and expansion of a local market? …

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