Media Articles
Masculinities and platform labor in India
Interview of Sai Amulya for /DigiLabour`
07-04-2022
The need for ‘techbridization’ in the digital platform economy
Op Ed by Pallavi Bansal for Times Of India (TOI)
07-12-2021
Obstacles remain for hiring women and minorities in India’s platform sector
Interview of Pallavi Bansal by PlatformsIntelligence
03-12-2021
Will e-commerce revive Bangladesh’s artisanal economy?
Opinion piece by Upasana Bhattacharjee, Payal Arora, & Usha Raman, GlobalDev Blog
08-11-2021
No Woman’s Land: Female Cab Drivers On Indian Roads
Opinion piece by Pallavi Bansal for Outlook magazine
03-08-2021
How creative design strategies help sustainability and inclusion
Interview of Payal Arora by Your Story, DesignUp Media Coverage
03-06-2021
Thoughts on the design of a fair society
Interview of Payal Arora by MASHING UP, a Japanese media platform
03-02-2021
From Unbanked to fully Digital: A look behind Bangladesh’s online money transfers (pages 28-29)
Essay by Mohammad Sahid Ullah for the Dhaka Courier, an Independent Newsweekly
01-08-2020
Where in India’s COVID-19 Response Is the Moral Compass That Guides Governance?
Essay by Usha Raman for the Science: The Wire
01-08-2020
Technology for a social cause: TikTok and Asia’s mobile-first nations
CoronaBrief Blog by Payal Arora for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
11-05-2020
Digital justice for the next billion users
Interview with Payal Arora for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
24.03.2020
Talks
Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor & Social Reproduction
Payal Arora
Keynote on Fairwork to FemWork? Feminist approach to the future of work University of Amsterdam
27-06-2023
Feminist design for the future of work
Payal Arora
Keynote on feminist design and the future of work, My data Conference, Helsinki
05-05-2023
Reflections on Women and Digital India
On International Women’s Day
Payal Arora, Nishant, Shah, and Bishakha Datta panel, Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, & Women and Gender Development Cell, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
06-03-2023
For the bangle makers of Hyderabad, time folds tightly in on itself
Usha Raman
Paper presented at the 2023 Wolf Conference, “Temporal Mediations in Digital Capitalism”, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
11-03-2023
The Future of faith and responsible technology & AI
Payal Arora, Arfah Farooq, Faten Hijazi on Driving Diversity and Inclusion within the tech industry Panel, Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
19-01-2023
Inclusive innovation: A new model for change
RSA Panel talk with Payal Arora, Innovation Growth Lab, BRAC Social Innovation Lab, Kings College London
12-01-2023
Ep. 76: Say YES! Writer and academic Usha Raman on building a career on her own terms
Podcast for the Indian Edit
08-11-2022
Feminizing transactions: learning from the FemLab project
Keynote by Usha Raman at Digital Transactions in Asia IV.
10-02-2022
FemWork: Critical Pivot towards Design for Inclusive Labor Futures
Keynote by Payal Arora for ACM CHI22
05-05-2022
Adobe Design Mix: AI and Creativity: How to build inclusive design
Talk by Payal Arora for Adobe India
10-12-2021
Feminist tech and the future of work
Keynote by Payal Arora for NetHope 20th Anniversary Global Summit
18-11-2021
Designing for Work and Workers
Talk by Payal Arora for New School Parsons, New York
04-11-2021
The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work PhD Symposium
presentation by Pallavi Bansal. Dimmons
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya & DigiLabour Research Lab
27-09-2021
‘AI for Law and Justice’ panel presentation with Amulya Sai and Siddharth deSouza
Sai University
24-09-2021
Exploring everyday feminism in India presentation on by Sai Amulya Komarraju
Association of Indian Research Scholars (AIRS)
23-09-2021
Digital marginalization: A report card on the Internet as a public good Panel presentation by Chinar Mehta. IdeoSync Media Combine
17-09-2021
Feminist Internet and the Problem With Social Media Algorithms
Dr. Usha Raman is in conversation with Shrishti Malhotra, producer at The Swaddle, on cyberfeminism, algorithm biases, and reimagining the internet.
29-07-2021
Peace & Justice Cafe Keynote Launch on building care economies by Payal Arora & panel discussion with directors at Asser Institute, Clingendael Institute, and Leiden’s Center of Innovation
Hague Humanity Hub
15-06-2021
ICA ‘Rethinking borders and boundaries’ 2021: Talk by Usha Raman on ‘Platform work and the planetary economy: global design, local experience’
International Communication Association (ICA)
27-05-2021
Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Symposium 2021: Talk by Payal Arora on ‘A feminist design manifesto for the future of work in the Global South’
University of Glasgow
26-05-2021
‘New Frontiers of Digital Governance’ Digital Pathways: Talk by Payal Arora on ‘Fair work, feminist design and women’s labour collectives in the digital age’
Oxford University
06-05-2021
Development & its Futures Istanbul2021 Innovation Days Plenary with Payal Arora
UNDP
24-03-2021
Feminist approaches to designing location-based platforms in India
Talk by Pallavi Bansal at Etmaal2021 ‘Communication, Diversity, Democracy’
04-02-2021
Women, Work, and Voice in the Gig Economy
Arthan Future of Work Forum and Just Jobs Network with Payal Arora
16-12-2020
Exploring Democratizing the future of work: Feminist approaches to digital collectives Edge Session at Ministry of Change with Payal Arora
UNDP
27-10-2020
Data sovereignty and data colonialism Keynote Roundtable Panel with Payal Arora, Nick Couldry, Ralph Litzinger, Amir Anwar
London School of Economics
02-09-2020
Unchain the human in the global value chain LIVE show with Payal Arora on
Whats NEXT-Hamburg
25-06-2020
Webinar on informal labour & platform economy with Payal Arora
Pondicherry University
12-06-2020
Deconstructing the Data Gaze Round table talk by Usha Raman
University of Hyderabad
12-05-2020
The digital economy in Asia: feminist perspectives Webinar with Payal Arora organized by
Friedrich Ebert Foundation
22-04-2020