About DPCP
The Digital Platform Cooperative Project (DPCP) was conceptualized in 2018 and seeks to develop an alternative model capable of realizing the transformative potential of the platform economy. It is aimed at addressing the speed at which technology, particularly, digital platforms, has evolved and has taken the traditional ways of working by surprise. This project takes in to account the remaining effects of Apartheid geography and the lack of full economic inclusion for a domestic and care work sector that is largely female with low levels of entry, where the work is increasingly casualised.
DPCP Webinars and Resources:
The focus is on capacitating workers to participate in the digital economy
Women in Gig Work
DPCP coordinator, Fairuz Mullagee joins in the panel discussion
“Women in Gig Work” about the different platform models operating in domestic work, we will hear about how platforms are impacting working conditions, and we will share examples of worker-led movements and innovative policy/regulation.
Domestic work and platformisation in India and South Africa: A look at enablers and barriers
Globally, the domestic work sector is both highly informal and highly
feminised. This article will compile learnings from the domestic work
sector in two countries of the Global South — India and South Africa
concerning the emerging digital economy and its effects on workers.
To do so, it will explore the rise of the platform economy in the context of a digital gender divide and highlight initiatives from India and South Africa seeking to improve access to the opportunities offered by digital platforms as well as empowering platform workers through the development of platform cooperatives.
