On 16-17 May 2025, DiPLab’s Paola Tubaro was invited by the French Institute in Argentina to participate in its landmark event “Night of Ideas.” At world-famous Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, she spoke in panels that provocatively questioned the “new voluntary servitude” of platform work and asked whether “in AI Read more
On February 14, 2025, the AEI International School at Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) hosted a roundtable on regulating AI’s hidden workforce. DiPLab co-founder, sociologist Antonio Casilli took center stage in this conversation about the invisible human labor powering artificial intelligence systems.
DiPLab member Thomas Le Bonniec is an invited speaker at the annual conference of Nexa Center for Internet & Society. This year the conference is titled “War, Peace and Algorithms” and will take place on Friday 13th, 2024, at the University of Torino, Italy. Thomas Le Bonniec will participate in Read more
The Digital Platform Labor (DiPLab) research initiative is proud to announce its collaboration with leading Chilean academic institutions in organizing the seventh International Network on Digital Labor (INDL 7) conference. This landmark event, scheduled for October 28-30, 2024, in Santiago de Chile, brings together a diverse array of scholars, activists, Read more
In the landscape of global development, the intersection of AI and human progress has become a focal point for future policies. Between January 11 and 13, 2024, in New Delhi, India, the Global Conclave “Advancing Human Development in the Global South,” served as a platform for intellectual exchange and collaboration. Read more
We are delighted to announce the call for abstracts for our new initiative, the Middle East and Africa chapter of the International Network on Digital Work (INDL-MEA). The conference, organized by the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL) and the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at The American Read more
On Monday, 21 November 2023, Panoptiwork.eu and the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology, and AI invited DiPLab’s Antonio Casilli to give a talk at the University of Groningen (NL) on “How Artificial Intelligence Fosters Global Inequalities: A Four-Country Study on Data Work.” The talk was followed by a Read more
The contemporary job market resembles a digital Wild West, fraught with contradictions, inequalities, and precarious employment. DiPLab’s Antonio Casilli, serving as the scientific director of this year’s event, delves into the intricacies of the algorithmic workplace at the Jobless Society Forum 2023, scheduled for October 19-20 at the Fondazione Giangiacomo Read more
From October 9 to 11, 2023, researchers, activists, artists, and policymakers will gather in Berlin for the sixth annual conference of the International Network on Digital Labor. INDL-6 “Digital Labor in the Wake of Pandemic Times” will feature over 100 presentations and contributions from 150 speakers from around the world. Read more
Between January 16 and 26, 2023, Paola Tubaro (CNRS) and Antonio Casilli (Polytechnic Institute of Paris) will be in Chile for a series of talks digital platform labor, artificial intelligence, inequalities, and coloniality. Here’s the complete list of talks. Lunes 16 enero 2023, 13:00, CUT, Talca — Antonio Casilli & Read more