Session
Organizer 1: S Vignesh, Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University Delhi
Organizer 2: Fawaz Shaheen, Centre for Communication Governance - National Law University, Delhi
Organizer 3: Shashank Mohan, 🔒
Organizer 4: Elea Himmelsbach, Open Data Institute
Speaker 1: Thomas Carey-Wilson, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 2: Shashank Mohan, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 3: Elea Himmelsbach, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Fawaz Shaheen, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Elea Himmelsbach, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
S Vignesh, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Classroom
Duration (minutes): 90
Format description: The primary intent behind the session is to provide a deeper understanding to the participants on the policy considerations and the various data access models and governance principles that go into establishing data institutions to secure individual and collective data rights. The classroom format allows the speakers to share their learnings and experiences in a manner that maximises interactions with participants, and is supplemented with interactive stakeholder exercises, polls, and other learning methods to further engage the participants.
Prior to the session, we will invite stakeholders from a large cross-section of industry and policy makers to attend the workshop. This will ensure that a diverse group of stakeholders are a part of the conversation. It will also create a space for discussing data governance principles for the gig economy in light of case studies and illustrations from different jurisdictions in the Global North as well as the Global Majority.
A. What best practices and principles in data governance can be leveraged to create a more just and fair ecosystem within the gig economy in India and other Global Majority countries?
B. Which forums and participatory mechanisms will need to be supported in order to share these best practices and co-design systems capable of addressing the needs of Global Majority countries?
What will participants gain from attending this session? The session will provide participants with the tools to understand different models for enabling access to important data about gig workers and the role that data institutions can play in protecting individual and collective data rights. The session is structured to be equally interactive and informative so that the participants can apply the learnings from the workshop session in the interactive stakeholder exercises and participant polls.
The participants will gain a deeper understanding of the functioning of data institutions in the EU, UK and North America, the differing considerations for establishing data institutions, and the different legal, commercial, technical and governance mechanisms these institutions deploy in protecting the rights of gig workers. The mix of speakers and moderators from Europe and India, coming from diverse backgrounds and identities, will allow for an exchange of ideas across jurisdictions and perspectives from both the Global Majority and the Global North.
Description:
This workshop (classroom session) aims to inform the participants of the growing body of work on data rights within the gig economy, and the practical applications of data governance in bolstering individual and community data rights amongst workers. It will also discuss the implications of these principles in the context of the emerging framework of gig workers’ welfare and rights in India and other Global Majority countries.
In the session, we will present a range of emerging models for stewarding data relating to workers in the gig economy, including data institutions in the EU, UK and North America. We will compare these approaches to the developing legal landscapes in India, and the additional assistance data institutions may be required to provide due to insufficient legal protections on collective data and non-personal data. In line with CCG’s core mission and expertise, we are also looking to explore how data institutions can adapt to the developing regulatory systems related to gig work in Global Majority countries.
The session will cover certain key factors that determine the effectiveness of implementing various data governance models or data institutions for gig workers. Speakers from the ODI will share their experience of running a data-for-workers’-rights peer-learning network to help organisations to compare insights, share knowledge and best practices, and support efforts to improve conditions for workers and address shared data challenges. The session will reflect on data governance principles. such as providing for contestability and governing for both economy as well as community, in order to design fit-for-purpose institutions for the gig economy.
The session will also use various interactive exercises to gauge the participants’ views and approaches to resolving the conflicting interests with the various stakeholders involved in the data rights discourse in the gig economy (government regulators, aggregator platforms, users, gig workers, civil society).
1) The session will highlight the centrality of robust data governance and rights framework in shaping better working conditions within the digital economy.
Insights gained from this session will be published on the CCG Blog - which is a rich space for deliberations on issues related to tech policy - as well as an episode on the CCG podcast.
2) It will feed into research and advocacy around developing better and more context-sensitive data governance practices and policies in different regions and jurisdictions.
3) It will create pathways for collaborative research and advocacy on improved data governance for the gig economy.
4) It will enrich the discourse around the emerging legal framework around gig work in India. In particular, we expect the session to provide insights for expanding the conversation from welfare and social security to better data governance for fairer work.
Hybrid Format: At the beginning of the session, all participants (online and offline) will be given links to an interactive poll containing questions measuring perceptions related to key issues within data governance, the gig economy and platform-based work. The poll will also ask them to identify the stakeholder group they belong to in order to understand the composition of the participants as well as their particular perspectives.
The session will be designed as a structured conversation on practices and principles of data governance that can make a fairer ecosystem of platform-based gig work. After each of the two parts within this session, the moderator will take questions and interventions from the participants inside the room as well as written questions from the participants joining online.
We will be making use of platforms like Top Hat and Mentimeter to conduct the poll.