Bot Populi @PopuliBot
An alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. botpopuli.net Joined June 2019-
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This month’s editorial sheds light on the anticlimactic character of the Trump-Xi Summit and the potential impact of the widely anticipated IPOs of OpenAI and Anthropic.
#NewsletterAlert From the BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations meeting in New Delhi to the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, there is a broad consensus...
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The experiences of ASHAs show a complex algorithmic control embedded in the public sector and welfare work, especially where women work from the margins of formal recognition.
ASHA workers across the country have been protesting for better pay, increased incentives, and more recognition for their key role as the backbone of India’s public health system. Just this week, the state of Kerala announced an Rs 3000 hike for these community healthcare workers
Ruth Castel-Branco, explores how labor organizing in Africa is adapting to the realities of platform work where solidarity has to be built across apps, algorithms, and isolation. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/datasyn/p/… #GigWork #PlatformEconomy #LaborRights #FutureOfWork #TechPolicy
Read the full story here: datasyn.substack.com/p/workers-vs-p… #GigWork #PlatformEconomy #LaborRights #FutureOfWork #DigitalLabor #GigWorkers #TechPolicy #PlatformCapitalism
She calls upon workers to lobby for their interests just as platforms lobby for theirs. Fair rules for platform work cannot come to fruition without listening to platform workers. Anything else is regulation without reality. Find out what’s at stake for platform workers.
Placed at the faultline between technological change & political choice, platform work has become a crucial battleground within the modern labor movement. What's at stake is not only the future of millions of platform workers in Europe, but the credibility of labor law itself.
Read on Bot Populi: datasyn.substack.com/p/poetry-is-no…
Existing policy frameworks still treat culture as an economic sector rather than a social infrastructure. But artistic and aesthetic labor are essential to our civic and political health. Why is the artists’ fight against AI central to preserving our cultural commons?
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Joan Kinyua writes for Bot Populi, reflecting on the state of data workers’ struggle for decent work in the age of platforms, and why the people behind the AI can no longer remain invisible.
As AI industries expand globally, many African content moderators and data labelers continue to face exploitative conditions, poor pay, and severe mental health impacts.
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