The project strives to build empathy through public outreach activity, and to foster accountability and corporate social responsibility. The research is expected to guide programmers and designers in their understanding of how their tools can enable female workers in the Global South in their collectivization efforts, with a particular interest in understanding the lived reality of women workers and the possibilities offered by such platforms to bring together and amplify their voices.
June 15, 2021, FemLab.co pitch for the Global Forum Colabora.Lat 2021:Governing the Pandemic: Challenges to build a Collaborative Governance
[By Payal Arora and Usha Raman] Conversations around Palestine-Israel have become exponentially heated and have permeated into academia. Camps have been formed. Support and condemnation fall along national and religious lines. Many face polarizing choices – are you with us or against us. Silence is viewed as cowardice and a…
[By Sreshta Ladegaam] In January 2023, Mohammed Rizwan tragically lost his life while attempting to deliver an order for Swiggy in Hyderabad, Telangana. Swiggy is one of India’s largest food and grocery delivery platforms. Rizwan was attacked by a customer’s pet dog, prompting him to jump off a building to…
[By Sreshta Ladegaam] “Women still experience the city through a set of barriers—physical, social, economic, and symbolic–that shape their daily lives in ways that are deeply (although not only) gendered,” writes Leslie Kern in her seminal work ‘Feminist City’. These barriers are universal and are responsible for denying women opportunities…
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