9th Conference of the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-9)
Geneva (Switzerland)
9-11 Sep 2026
Program
Wednesday 09 September 2026
| 7:30 - 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome address - Caroline Fredrickson, Director, Research and Statistics Department - Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST, CNRS)
Room II - R3 South |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Transparency and traceability in the AI models and their supply chains - Chair: Anis Rahman, University of Washington
Room II - R3 South |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Stratified AI: Intra-National Inequalities and the Coloniality of Digital Labour - Pankhuri Agarwal, King‘s College London - Damian Grimshaw, King‘s College London |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Building Fair AI Supply Chains: Governance, Accountability, and the Fairwork Certification Scheme - Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - Patrick Feuerstein, Berlin Social Science Center |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Digital Colonialism and AI Supply Chains: Labour and Infrastructure in Indonesia's Data Centre Economy - Petra Molnar, Berkman Center for Internet and Society [Harvard University], York University [Toronto] |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop - Chair: Gemma Newlands, University of Zurich
Room V - R3 South |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Affective traces of AI labor: workers' emotions, job-market narratives, and emerging vulnerabilities in Madagascar - Aina Anjara Fitahiana Razafimahenina, Africa Center For Artificial Intelligence - Myriam Raymond, Université d'Angers |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Artificial Degradation: Generative AI and the Deskilling of Creative Labor - Wiktor Sokół, University of Gdańsk |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Encoding Marginality: AI Supply Chains and Linguistic Data Work in India - Lorenzo De Lellis, Ca' Foscari University [Venice, Italy] |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Psychosocial and Health-Related Risks in AI value chains: the Case of Latin American Data Workers - Matheus Viana Braz, State University of Maringá - Lucas Souza, Fluminense Federal University [Niterói] - Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST, CNRS) - Mathilde Abel, Télécom Paris - Antonio Casilli, Télécom Paris |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance - Chair: Caetano Patta Barros, Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP)
Room IX - R2 South |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | A gig within a gig: A comparative study of intermediation and market creation in ride hailing and home services platforms in India - Anna Elias, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | “Is This Really Gonna Help Someone?” Alienation Among European Data Workers - Floor Fiers, Universiteit Utrecht, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Algorithmic Control, Gamification, and Resistance among Platform Delivery Workers in Mexico City - José Angel Cerón Hernández, El Colegio de México A.C. - Minor Mora Salas, El Colegio de México A.C. |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | HETEROMATING MACHINES, ISOLATION, INVISIBILITY AND THE USAGE OF TIME: A DISCUSSION ABOUT CHILEAN MICROWORKERS SUBJECTIVITY. - Diego Rivera, Universidad de Chile, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, FAIR |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Legal frameworks, regulatory initiatives, and institutional responses - Chair: Uma Rani, Research Department, ILO
Room Jura - R2 South |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Active Algorithmic Transparency as an Operational Principle of Location-Based Platform Work - Laura Mantilla León, Derechos Digitales |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Centring Microworkers' Needs in EU Platform Regulation - Luisa Burchartz, Universiteit Utrecht |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Between Welfare and Control: Rethinking Social Protection Policies for Platform Workers in India - Kinchan Chakma, Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies (ADCPS), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Beyond the Black Box: A Comparative Analysis of Algorithmic Management Regulation in Latin America (Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay) and Lessons From the Global South - Federico Rosenbaum Carli, Universidad Católica del Uruguay [Montevideo, Uruguay] |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break Gobelin - R2 South |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Transparency and traceability in the AI models and their supply chains - Chair: Matheus Viana Braz, State University of Maringá
Room II - R3 South |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | The Social Penalties and Rewards of AI-Augmented Work. - Gemma Newlands, Universität Zürich - Christoph Hassler, Universität Zürich |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Mapping workers skills across AI supply chains across geographies - Uma Rani, International Labour Organization - Morgan Williams, International Labour Organization |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | One arm of the Assembly line of AI. EU data workers and privacy regulation - Thomas Le Bonniec, Télécom Paris |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Visible Yet Unseen: Unpacking the (In)visibilities of Food Delivery Riders in Public Space - Emilia Bruck, Vienna University of Technology |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop - Chair: Lucas Santos Souza, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Room V - R3 South |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | An Exploration of Instability: The Association of Fluctuating Conditions in Microwork with Workers' Daily Well‑Being through Basic Need Satisfaction - Sofie Schuller, Universiteit Utrecht |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Intermediary assemblages and platform fetishism: understanding entanglements of AI-enabled tools, subcontracting, and platform-mediated labor - Quinn O'Dowd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Artificial Intelligence in the movie industry and live entertainment - Eliana Como, Fondazione Di Vittorio |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | The Global Color Line of AI Labor: Digital Colonialism in the OpenAI–Sama Supply Chain - Anis Rahman, University of Washington |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance - Chair: Nuno Meira Simoes Cunha, Labour Market Institution Specialist, ILO
Room IX - R2 South |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Bonded to the algorithm: how ratings shape platform-based domestic work in India - Eleonora Paesani, School of Oriental and African Studies |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Cartography of Digital Labor: The De-reterritorialization of Delivery Workers through the Co-creation of Maps - Igor Dalla Vecchia, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg - Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Chinese Delivery Workers on Short Video Platforms: From Everyday Self-Media to Alternative Video Activism - Ke Huang, Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Contesting Control: Algorithmic management in the era of platform work regulation - Didem Özkiziltan Wagenführer, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | PANEL: Data4Workers: Algorithmic Management in Food delivery and Care Platforms. A Participatory Research Project in Four Countries - Chair: Jessica Pidoux, PersonalData.io, Université de Neuchâtel
Room Jura - R2 South |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Decoding Algorithmic Management through Workers' Calculative Power: Potential and Limitations of a Participatory Methodology for AI Accountability in Platform Labour - Jessica Pidoux, PersonalData.io, Université de Neuchâtel - Núria Sánchez-Mira, Université de Neuchâtel |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Labour Control in Delivery and Care Platforms: A Comparative Study from Chile - Francisca Gutiérrez-Crocco, Universidad Austral de Chile, Data4workers - Monserrat Greene Núñez, Data4workers |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Data Rights and Platform Labour Markets in Uruguay - Luciana Zorzoli, Essex Business School - Catalina Wins Porta, University of the Republic of Uruguay |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Cafetaria - R2 North |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | ILO History Tour with ILO Historian Remo Becci |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Keynote: Data Work and Territory: The Latin American Experience by Julian Posada - Chair: Antonio Casilli
Room II - R3 South |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break Gobelin - R2 South |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Transparency and traceability in the AI models and their supply chains - Chair: Myriam Raymond, Université d'Angers
Room II - R3 South |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Ethically Distant? Awareness of Hidden Labor in AI Supply Chains Among Remote Workers - Barbara Švagan, University of Primorska, Faculty of Management |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | From microtask to requester: prompt commoning against the fragmentation of AI labor - Adrián Lombera, Universitat de VIC, Universitat Central de Catalunyo |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Shadow AI at Work: Labour Control and Everyday Resistance - Alex Miltsov, Bishop's University |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Outside the Doughnut: A Socio-Economic Framework for the True ROI of Human-Centric AI Supply Chains - Prachi Sharma, Future Shift Labs - Vidhi Sharma, Future Shift Labs |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop - Chair: Isabel María Barrero Velázquez, Universidad de Cádiz
Room V - R3 South |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | From Bad to Microwork: Playful Work Coping and the Loss Cycle - Yuri Scharp, Universiteit Utrecht |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Is it exploitation? Platform work through a human trafficking lens - Salomé Lannier, University of Luxembourg |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Algorithmic Management and Wage Dynamics: an Individual-level Survey Evidence - Claudia Collodoro, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Milano] - Maria Enrica Virgillito, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Milano], Institute of Economics of Sant'Anna [Pisa] |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | From Algorithmic Management to Organizational Cognitive Ecology - Manuela Paulon, The Adecco Group |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | PANEL: Corporate Accountability in AI Supply Chains: the AI-Workers' Rights Litigation (AI-WORLd) - Chairs: Baptiste Delmas & Luca D'Ambrosio, Université Paris 1 Panthéon / Sorbonne
Room IX - R2 South |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | PANEL: Corporate Accountability in AI Supply Chains: the AI-Workers' Rights Litigation (AI-WORLd) - Luca D'Ambrosio, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / École de droit de la Sorbonne - Baptiste Delmas, Institut de Recherches Juridiques de la Sorbonne - Rachel Beausejour, CGT-FAPT - Samira Alaoui, CGT-FAPT – Ephantus Kanyugi, Data Labelers Association - Joan Kinyua, Data Labelers Association - Anthony Kimani, Oversight Lab Africa - Anonymized, Independent scholar |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Role of social dialogue in governing AI-mediated work - Chair: Denis Neumann, Researcher, University of Leeds
Room Jura - R2 South |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | When Machines Manage: Workers' Demands and Trade Union Responses to AI - Paolo Agnolin, Princeton University |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Technological Change, Occupational Structure, and Wage Inequality in India: The Role of Trade Unions and Labour Regulations - Prachi Tayade, Indian Institute of Technology [Bombay] - Kiran Mhaske, Indian Institute of Technology [Bombay] |
Thursday 10 September 2026
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Gender and digital labour - Chair: Núria Sánchez-Mira, Université de Neuchâtel
Room II - R3 South |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Digitalisation and Market Heterogeneity in the Domestic Economy: Workers' Profiles and Working Conditions across Formal and Platformised Markets in French-Speaking Switzerland - Camille Budon, University of Neuchatel - Sofia Kypraiou, Personaldata.io, University of Neuchatel |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Homemaking for the Algorithm: Reimagining Households as a Space for ‘Productive' Work - Sneha Roy, Graduate Institute of International and Development studies |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Coordination Labor and Reset: Naming the Invisible Time of Platform Childcare Work in South Korea - Minjeong Shin, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei University (Seoul) |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Reproductive Labor in Cross-Border Online English Teaching - Jelena Košinaga, Universität Graz |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop - Chair: Amanda Biazzi, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil] - Matheus Viana Braz, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil]
Room V - R3 South |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | “The world is not ready to listen to people behind AI”: Recognition and Justice for Data Workers - Tianling Yang, Weizenbaum Institut [Berlin] |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | From Digital Inclusion to Ethical AI Supply Chains: Centering Refugee Youth in the Future of AI-Mediated Work - Muranga Kandanda, Youth Initiative for Development |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Behind the Screens: Emotion work in GenAI content moderation - Gianlorenzo Meggio, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen] - Tanusree Jain, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen] |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | New frameworks for a “human-centric” AI supply chain - Chair: Marco Marrone, Università del Salento
Room IX - R2 South |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Credentialized Gatekeeping in AI Supply Chains: Toward a Human-Centric Framework of Labor Market Entry in North America - Maria Cervantes Macias, University of British Columbia [Canada] |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Datacraft: Digital Bodies in the Data Economy - Kanikka Sersia, Graduate Institute of International and Development studies, Université de Lausanne - Filipe Calvao, Graduate Institute Geneva |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | From Human-in-the-Loop to Workers-in-Governance: A Labour Bill of Materials for Human-Centric AI Supply Chains - Yang Zida, Peking University - Cao Yuxuan, Peking University [Beijing] |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | From Atomized Workers to Digital Solidarities: Everyday Resistance among Egyptian Data Workers - Myriam RAYMOND, GRANEM, Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Angers - Henrique Oliveira Da Motta, Capgemini [Berlin] |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance - Chair: Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST, CNRS)
Room Jura - R2 South |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | AI Beyond Job Loss: the Role of Labor Rights in Workers' Attitudes and Policy Preferences on AI regulation - Marie Labussiere, Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales (Sciences Po, CNRS) |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Platform Work and Older Workers in the Global South: Evidence from Brazil and Chile - Lourival Chaves Júnior, State University of the Tocantins Region of Maranhão - Marcio Cassandre, Universidade Estadual de Maringá - Arturo Arriagada, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | You Can't Be “Unbiased” on a Moving Train: The Framing of Consensus in Community Notes - Aishik Saha, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Gamification, Algorithmic Management, and Governmentality on Digital Taxi Platforms - Eamonn Sullivan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, ADAPT Centre, Taighde Éireann |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break Gobelin - R2 South |
| 10:50 - 11:00 | Group photo |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Keynote: From Rengong (artificial/human labor) to Intelligence: Rethinking AI and Labor in and from China by Julie Yujie Chen - Chair: Maria Mexi
Room II - R3 South |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Gender and digital labour - Chair: Mariana Fernández Massi, CONICET
Room II - R3 South |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Gendered precarity in platform labor: invisible work, care responsibilities and algorithmic management in the Czech platform economy - Markéta Švarcová, Institute of Sociology of Czech Academy of Science |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Navigating precarity and algorithmic control in digital care platforms - Isabel María Barrero Velázquez, Universidad de Cádiz |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | The Underside of the AI Supply Chain: Ghost Workers, Occupational Health, and Gendered Vulnerability in India's Content Moderation Industry - Sonam Rai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Transparency and traceability in the AI models and their supply chains - Chair: Ivana Pais, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Room V - R3 South |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Artificial Intelligence and the Firm: Transformations, Impacts, and Patterns of Innovation - Simone Vannuccini, Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Tracing Value Added in the AI Hardware Supply Chain: An Analysis of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Server Rack - Luukas Heydemann, UNCTAD - Nicolas Maystre, UNCTAD |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Mapping Labor's Leverage Points in the AI Hardware Global Production: The Case of Samsung - Brandon Hunter-Pazzara, Georgetown University |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | New frameworks for a “human-centric” AI supply chain - Chair: Mathilde Abel, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Room IX - R2 South |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Labor as Critical Infrastructure: Worker-Verified Traceability for Human-Centric AI Supply Chains - Yang Zida, Peking University |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Origins of data work: Thinking about “lead” obligations for the data work sector - Ritvik Gupta, Aapti Institute - Sreya Nair, Aapti Institute - Aditi Shah, Aapti Institute |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | The human labour force in supply chains: Digital technologies and warehouse automation in India - Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance - Chair: Kanikka Sersia, Geneva Graduate Institute
Room Jura - R2 South |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Task creep: The hidden expansion of unpaid labour in platform work - Prakriti Dasgupta, National University of Ireland Maynooth |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Unpacking Collective Organization of Platform Workers: A Multi-Level Analysis of Three Sectors in Argentina - Julieta Haidar, Workers Innovation Centre, National Research Council |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Algorithmic Management and the Erosion of Procedural Accountability - Gonzague Isirabahenda, ''1 Decembrie 1918'' University of Alba Iulia |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Cafetaria - R2 North |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Organizational, legal and financial perspectives on the rate of investment of ethical AI and challenges of regulatory compliance - Chair: Timothy Newman, Tech Equity
Room II - R3 South |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Deep Labor: Beyond the Platform/BPO Divide in Data Work - Antonio Casilli, Institut Polytechnique de Paris |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | AI and the Rebalancing of Open Source Contributions - Dong Yue, Verona University |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Making promises: Ethical Investment, Regulatory Compliance and the enactment of Labour in the Pacific Alliance AI policies. - Oscar Javier Maldonado, Universidad del Rosario [Bogota] - Derly Sánchez Vargas, Universidad del Rosario [Bogota] |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | AI Supply Chains and the New Technological Feudalism: Standard Hegemony and Labor Co-Construction - Miaotong Yuan, School of Music and Recording Arts, Communication University of China |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Worker Voice and Post-Deployment Governance in AI Supply Chains: Evidence from Unionised Workplaces - Claudine Tinsman, Queen Mary University London - Anjali Krishan, Queen Mary University London |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | PANEL: Regulating AI supply chains in the sector of logistics, European Union and comparative national legal perspectives - Chair: Claire Marzo, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12
Room V - R3 South |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Banning subcontracting and AI supply chains in Germany - Manfred Walser, Hochschule Mainz/University of Applied Sciences |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Reshaping logistics supply chains in Italy: the role of AI and digital technologies - Silvia Borelli, Università degli Studi di Ferrara |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Towards a European Union regulation of AI supply chains - Claire MARZO, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Silvia Borelli, Università di Ferrara |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Monitoring AI supply chains in the sector of Logistics via due diligence in France - Claire MARZO, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Barbara Palli, Université de Lorraine |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break Gobelin - R2 South |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop - Chair: Julie Chen, University of Toronto
Room V - R3 South |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Not all equal: A multidimensional vulnerability indicator for platform data workers - Paola Tubaro, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST, CNRS) |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Remote Control: A Cross-platform Analysis of How Algorithmic Control shapes Platform Satisfaction in Online Gig Work - Karthika Nadarajah, Radboud university [Nijmegen] |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | From Laptop to Living Room: Spillover-Crossover Effects of Microwork on Workers' and Their Partners' Social Well-Being - Sofie Schuller, Universiteit Utrecht |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Digital Autoethnography and the Affective Economy of Data Work in the Global South - Matheus Viana Braz, State University of Maringá |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Role of social dialogue in governing AI-mediated work - Chair: Morgan Williams, Research Officer, ILO
Room IX - R2 South |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Mapping worker-led AI governance in the global cultural industries - Rafael Grohmann, University of Toronto - Helena Wright, University of Toronto |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Counter-Laboratories for reimagining AI: What does "ethical AI" mean for Social Digital Movements from the South? - Paula C. Santos Menezes, Laboratório de Território e Comunicação/UFRJ |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Labour at the margins: how European public discourse forecloses social dialogue on AI and work - Nikos Smyrnaios, Université de Toulouse - Charis Papaevangelou, Université de Toulouse |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Absence of Social Dialogue and Vulnerability of Digital Labourers: AI-Mediated Freelancing Platforms and Agency Exploitation in Bangladesh - Md Mahmud Hasan, Assistant Professor |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance - Chair: Anthea Bicakcioglu, ILO
Room Jura - R2 South |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Labour Control and Supervision on Delivery Platforms in Portugal - Patrícia Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | From algorithms to the shop floor: Labour process dynamics and job quality in AI supply chains. - Daina Bellido de Luna, Universidad de Santiago de Chile |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | From Protest to Policy: How News Framing of Gig Workers' Strikes Influence on Social Security Code Implementation in India. - Shikha Shalini, Research Scholar - Dr. Sweta Singh, Associate Professor |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Reconciling risk and workers' rights: the EU's risk-based approach to algorithmic management and its implica-tions for labour law - Giovanni Gaudio, University of Turin - Law Department |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Cocktail: Restaurant Ariana Rue de Montbrillant 83, 1202 Genève https://www.restaurant-ariana-geneve.ch/ |
Friday 11 September 2026
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Transparency and traceability in the AI models and their supply chains - Chair: Nicolas Maystre, UNCTAD
Room II - R3 South |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Extracting Workers' Cognition: an NLP Approach to AI Annotation Guidelines - Mathilde Abel, Institut interdisciplinaire de l'innovation, Télécom Paris - Thomas Le Bonniec, Télécom Paris - Donatella Delpiano, Università degli studi di Torino |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Epistemological Laundering and the Invisible Labour of AI Supply Chains - Adio Dinika, DAIR Institute - Camilla Salim Wagner, DAIR Institute - Milagros Miceli, DAIR Institute, Weizenbaum Institut [Berlin] |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | The False Consciousness of LLMs: Representations of “Ghost Workers” in Artificially Generated Images - Lorenzo Incardona, United International Business School, Milan |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | The expression and suppression of upstream workers' voice in contemporary global value chains - Myriam Bouyakhlef, Rotterdam School of Management (Eramus University Rotterdam) |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop - Chair: Claartje Ter Hoeven, Universiteit Utrecht
Room V - R3 South |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Drawing boundaries: inequalities on digital platforms across geographies - Julieta Longo, Laboratorio de Estudios en Sociología y Economía del Trabajo - Mariana Fernandez Massi, Laboratorio de Estudios en Sociología y Economía del Trabajo |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Just-in-Time Embeddedness in AI Value Chains: Content Moderation, Data Work, and Infrastructures of Circulation in Southern Europe - Marco Marrone, University of Salento - Antonio Casilli, Institut Polytechnique de Paris |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Students Behind the Scenes of Digital Labor - Saadeddine Igamane, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University - Morocco - Fidae El Hassouni, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University - Morocco - Khamar El Khomssi, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University - Morocco |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Teachers as Data Annotators: Human-in-the-Loop Labor and the Platformization of Educational AI - Paula Menezes, Faculdade de Educação |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Legal frameworks, regulatory initiatives, and institutional responses - Chair: Diego Rivera, Universidad de Chile
Room IX - R2 South |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Children and Youth in Platform Labour and the Limits of Regulation in Brazil - Amanda Biazzi, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil] - Matheus Viana Braz, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil] |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Regulating platform labour in Brazil: precarity, contestation, and workers' agency - Lucas Souza, Universidade Federal Fluminense [Rio de Janeiro] |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Governance Instrument or Governance Performance? National AI Strategies and the World of Work in Europe and Latin America - Anthea Bicakcioglu, International Labour Organization - Caetano Patta Barros, Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | The Rise of the Rule of Algorithms: From Lex Laboris to Lex Algorithmica and the Erosion of Just and Equitable Labour Protection in Algorithmic Governance. - Sathiyaseelan Janani, University of Colombo [Sri Lanka] |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance - Chair: Sofie Schuller, Universiteit Utrecht
Room Jura - R2 South |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Labor Dependency and the Reconfiguration of Labor Relations in Digital Platforms - Pía Garavaglia, Universidad de Buenos Aires |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Negotiating Contextual Legitimacy: Migrant Workers' Interpretations of Precarity Beyond the Platform in Italy and Germany - Padmini Sharma, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Uberized and Undocumented: Legal Status and Working Conditions of Migrant Platform Delivery Workers in France - Marwân-Al-Qays Bousmah, Institut national d'études démographiques, Centre Population et Développement |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Designing Control and Autonomy: A Taxonomy of Online Gig Platform Configurations - Karthika Nadarajah, Radboud university [Nijmegen] |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break Gobelin - R2 South |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Keynote: The particulars of data work in AI’s Supply Chain by Alex Taylor - Chair: Balaji Parthasarthy
Room II - R3 South |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Gender and digital labour - Chair: Floor Fiers, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Room II - R3 South |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Relocating Reproductive Labor in the Platform Economy - Avantika Tewari, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, O.P. Jindal Global University |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Platform Bias and Communication Gaps: Mapping inclusion and Exclusion Pattern of Female-centric Instant Home Service Apps in Urban India - Shikha Shalini, Research Scholar - Dr. Sweta Singh, Associate Professor |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Reconfiguring Human Labour in AI Supply Chains: Gendered Constraints and AI-Enabled Customer Service - Yizhen Wang, Université Paris Cité |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop - Chair: Aishik Saha, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Room V - R3 South |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | The Irruption of generative AI in art worlds: Reconfigurations of work in the creative sectors - Rania Bouabdallah, Université Paris Saclay - Lisa Amari, Université Paris Saclay |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Auditing African Content Moderators' Working Conditions by Using the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Jessica Pidoux, Université de Neuchâtel - Kauna Malgwi, Pan African Christian University Africa - Sonia Kgomo, African Content Moderators Union (ACMU) |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Artificial Intelligence and Exploitation: A Labour Regime Analysis of India's Data Annotation Economy - Gautam Suresh Kumar, Independent researcher - Alessandra Mezzadri, School of Oriental and African Studies |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Cafetaria - R2 North |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop - Chair: Thomas Le Bonniec, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Room V - R3 South |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | From Data Cascades to Better (and Worse) Work Cascades: Three AI Labour Governance Mechanisms Driving More Responsible AI Value Chains - Hung Kai-Hsin, HEC Montreal, International Development Research Centre |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Juggling Microwork, Traditional Employment, and Personal Life: A Playful and Activity-Based Perspective - Yuri Scharp, Universiteit Utrecht |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Trapped in Hope: A Discourse on Persistence and Continuity of Indebted Life of Migrant Workers in Digital Labour Platforms in Urban India - Kinchan Chakma, Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies (ADCPS), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India - Rahul Sapkal, Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies (ADCPS), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Algorithmic management, labour control, and workers’ resistance - Chair: Gonzague Isirabahenda, Universitatea “1 Decembrie 1918” Alba Iulia
Room Jura - R2 South |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Social Dialogue and the Governance of Workplace AI: Evidence from Italian Collective Bargaining - Davide Bisi, Università degli studi di Parma - Ivana Pais, Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Working Without Dignity: The Production and Negotiation of Indignity in Platform Food Delivery across India and Italy - Padmini Sharma, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) - Premilla D'Cruz, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad - Ernesto Noronha, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Remote Migrants, Digital Borders: Migration and the Global AI Economy - Stefano Piemontese, University of Birmingham - Lawrence Jabs, University of Birmingham, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15 - 16:45 | Round table: Setting up an inter-disciplinary Research Agenda on AI Supply Chains - Chair: Uma Rani Panellists: Timothy Newman, Paola Tubaro and Alex Taylor
Room II - R3 South |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Closing remarks: Co-Chairs: Matheus Viana Braz and Antonio Casilli - Mariana Massi (INDL-LatAm), Myriam Raymond (INDL-MEA), Aishik Saha (INDL-SA), Julian Posada (INDL-NA), Julie Chen (INDL-EA)
Room II - R3 South |
