Fairer Futures for Businesses and Workforces
What business models offer fairer opportunities & working conditions for all in the platform economy?
Annual Reports
Not-Equal released two reports including the main findings from initial engagements and the call for proposals and commissioning process.
Tool
Award events
Two events celebrating the launch of the 17 projects we have funded from the UKRI Not-Equal Network+
Event
Between Digital Platforms and the Deep Sea
Examining the food delivery sector in India
Funded Micro Project
Can platform co-operatives offer an alternative model for the gig economy?
Ann Light gives a short summary of Duncan McCann’s talk at the University of Sussex looking at whether platform cooperatives could offer a new alternative model for the platform economy.
Blog
Co-Designing a Food Delivery Platform Co-operative
Developing an understanding of the challenges facing a food delivery platform co-operative
Funded Project
Democratising Access to Digital Technology and Services
Video from HCI Summer Festival 2020.
Talk / Video
Design, Technology & Social Justice
Ann Light talks about Design, Technology and Social Justice for the ESRC Festival of Social Science in Brighton.
Talk / Video
Early Career Researchers
Issues of precarity and interdisciplinarity for Early Career Researchers in Justice-oriented technology spaces
Funded Project
Equitable Digital Economies
Webinar as part of the Not-Equal Summer Webinar Series 2021.
Talk / Video
Fostering Collaborations
Fostering collaborations in first and second cycle of commissioning including Catalyst
Tool
Gender Platforms
How do digital platforms restructure power relations in the care economy?
Funded Project
Invisible Worker
Exploring the interface between work and technology in contemporary capitalism
Project
Making Data Work for Social Justice
Webinar as part of the Not-Equal Summer Webinar Series 2021.
Talk / Video
Not Equal London Launch - Chi Onwurah
Chi Onwurah's keynote from the Not Equal Launch.
Talk / Video
Power Struggles in the Digital Economy: Platforms, Workers, and Markets
In early November, 25 researchers from Europe and North America met in New York to talk about the themes and tensions in the worldwide development of the gig economy and more broadly about the future of workforces.
Blog
Smart Small Farms
Distribute the opportunities of the digital economy through the development of Smart Farming Technologies (SFTs)
Funded Project
Stories from our socially just, digital futures
Webinar as part of the Not-Equal Summer Webinar Series 2021.
Talk / Video
Switch Gig
Exploring digital opportunities to switch the gig-economy to fair and just work
Funded Project
Universal Credit
How can we talk about fairer futures for businesses and workforces without also considering what happens when you have no work or exist on a low income?
Blog
V&A Digital Design Weekend
Workshop at V & A Digital Design weekend to coincide with the London Design Festival
Event
Who cares?
Platform Work and Low-income home service work in the digital economy
Funded Project
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