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Submission Format
1) A personal statement (under 500 words) describing your background and motivation/interest in attending the workshop or
2) An extended abstract or case study (under two pages) about a type of platform-based work.
In addition to addressing the workshop themes outlined in the section below, we highly recommend submissions to include the following:
specify the type(s) of platforms/work where they have the most interest/experience - to help optimize group assignments.
reflect on concepts of power, ethics and their own positionality as related to platform-based work and counter-data.
Submissions are not required to be anonymous
Workshop Themes
Stakeholder roles/collaborations in addressing worker challenges: Discuss how different stakeholder groups can collaborate to address challenges and opportunities of worker data-sharing collectives for empowering platform workers, particularly worker data (practices) for auditing platforms, surfacing platform manipulation, or informing the need for policy and regulation.
Whose preferences should the collective prioritize when gathering and analyzing worker data?
Which relevant stakeholder groups should participate in making changes to labor policy using data collectives?
How can/should we design, deploy and sustain ecosystems of worker data collectives that benefit platform-based workers while respecting priorities and needs of related stakeholder groups?
Contextualize worker data within broader questions of worker rights, well-being and autonomy.
What kinds of worker data are meaningful and what are limitations of data as a tool?
How is data shaped by conditions of constant worker surveillance?
What are potential mechanisms for gathering and contextualizing novel worker data so as to de-invisibilize labor?
Which data infrastructures can advance counter-data practices and policy changes that address pressing issues such as platform surveillance, discrimination and wage theft?
Governance & Regulation: how can data collectives be governed, and what labor regulation impacts they should aim for across geographic regions and nations.
What are design and ethical considerations to keep in mind beyond protecting worker privacy, maintaining trust among stakeholders, and establishing reliable governance mechanisms?
How can worker data collectives be designed to complement policy initiatives, e.g., enforcing platform data disclosures?
In general, what role can/should policy play in supporting platform-based workers?
Timeline
Submission Deadline: August 20th, 2024 Extended to Sept 30th, 2024
Notification Deadline: September 24th, 2024
*All deadlines times are by the EOD, anywhere on Earth.
Suggested Formatting
While we are not strict about the template and formats of submission, below we offer some templates for reference.
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