Tracing the change in the concepts of development and labor in the digital age, and analyzing strategies of developing countries and workers to recalibrate the current state of inequity.

Amid the global surge in inflation, massive sell-offs in stock markets, and recurring plunges in the value of many assets in the crypto sphere, what can be said about the future of the digital economy?

While discussing his book, ‘Slow Computing’, Alistair Fraser says, “We wanted to ask what it would mean to have a digital life that wasn’t subjected to data grabbing and the constant rush to enact one’s presence within the seemingly unending chains of responses.”

People have been taking to Web 3.0 while looking for alternatives to dominant forms of predatory and destructive capitalism. But does Web 3.0 have the same power structures and logics that govern Big Tech?

Analyzing the gap between the need for sexuality-related information among youngsters and the lack of a school-based comprehensive sexuality education curriculum in China.

What goes wrong when society pins its hopes on tech billionaires to solve the world’s problems?

We are handing the keys of the food system to data giants, but does Big Tech really have the answers?

This article is based on a panel discussion organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and IT for Change as part of the NGO CSW66 Virtual Forum held on 15 March 2022.

The digital economy continues to be marked by deep power asymmetries between capital and labor. Work precarization, and opaque, inscrutable algorithmic regimes of management chip away at decent work conditions. Automation poses wicked conundrums for economic policy in the North and South alike.

How has the worker rights movement pushed back against the excesses brought forth by Big Tech? What battles are won, what remain, and what does the future hold? Experts weigh in.