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Dear Colleagues,
Hope you are well! Please find the Call for Papers for the IFIP
9.4
Conference on "Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World",
Lima,
Peru, 25-27 May 2022:
https://ifip.ue.edu.pe/
The track on Digital Platforms
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aiBc-0EkqZzbt5rv-H8205e6GezW84uJ3V715OcmLB4/edit>
is
especially interested in field-based and critical understandings
of the
platforms-for-development discourse. The deadline for the
submission of
papers is 7 January 2022. Below is the full text of the track's
CfP.
All the best,
The Track Chairs Silvia Masiero, Brian Nicholson, Petter Nielsen,
Johan Sæbø
IFIP 9.4 Conference Lima, Peru 2022
Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World
Track 1: Digital Platforms
Track Co-Chairs:
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Silvia Masiero, University of Oslo,
silvima@ifi.uio.no
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Brian Nicholson, University of Manchester,
brian.nicholson@manchester.ac.uk
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Petter Nielsen, University of Oslo,
pnielsen@ifi.uio.no
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Johan Ivar Sæbø, University of Oslo,
johansa@ifi.uio.no
Koskinen et al. (2019) draw on Gawer (2014) and Evans & Gawer
(2016) in
classifying platforms based on their purpose, distinguishing
transaction
(multi-sided markets facilitating transactions among counterparts)
from
innovation platforms (technological building blocks for developing
services
and products). They also suggest a four-point research agenda for
researchers on digital platforms in the Global South, inviting
research on
(1) how to release the developmental potential of innovation
platforms, (2)
systematic differences among digital platforms in the Global North
and the
Global South, (3) the extent to which and ways how transaction
platforms
may exacerbate inequalities, and (4) alternatives to private
platforms,
such as in the public and non-profit sector. Over the last two
years the
platforms-for-development debate has evolved into these four
directions and
new ones, which papers submitted to this track are invited to
explore.
New directions for debate are characterised by an
interdisciplinary
orientation, as well as an increasing pervasiveness of critical
accounts of
the platforms-for-development discourse. For example, innovation
platforms
have been framed as an instantiation of global public goods
characterised,
in principle, by features of non-rivalry and non-exclusivity
(Nicholson et
al., 2019b), which invites attention from economic and
redistributional
theoretical lenses. Platforms and digital entrepreneurship present
some
optimistic themes for development of small and micro businesses
such as
Amazon marketplace and freelancing platforms such as Upwork. At
the same
time, critical accounts that problematise the ability of platforms
to
pursue traditional “development” objectives (for example,
empowering
marginalised communities) have emerged, for instance around the
precarity
and vulnerability induced in workers of digital labour platforms
(Anwar
& Graham, 2020; Graham et al., 2020). Highlighting the
persistence of
structural power asymmetry in such platforms, these accounts
question the
view that promptly lumps platforms diffusion with the ability to
promote
development goals. Dominance of the major global platforms
continues to
threaten the growth of indigenous platforms and presents threats
to privacy
and surveillance (Scholtz, 2016; Srnicek, 2017; Taplin, 2017;
Zuboff, 2019).
Topics include (but are not limited to):
1.
Conceptual contributions on digital platforms and their
theoretical
links with (different understandings of) socio-economic
development,
2.
Innovation platforms as global public goods and their potential
for
generating development, as well as the challenges encountered in
generating
this potential,
3.
Livelihood-generating platforms (e-commerce, digital labour),
their
affordances and constraints in empowering subjects and resulting
into
sustained development outcomes,
4.
Digital entrepreneurship and the role of platforms in opening up
small
and micro business opportunity in freelancing, app development,
5.
Development implications of the role of digital platforms in
transforming traditional sectors (e.g. fintech for development,
consequences for the Global South),
6.
Digital cooperation as enabled, transformed, or otherwise
influenced by
different types of platforms,
7.
Critical accounts centred on the “dark side” of platforms,
asymmetries,
data injustices, or any other forms of perverse effects
problematising the
view of platforms as enablers of positive development outcomes.
Submission Instructions
All submission information for the Conference is available at:
https://ifip.ue.edu.pe/submissions
Submission deadline: 7 January 2022
Submission template:
https://ifip.ue.edu.pe/images/files/IFIP-2022-Template-for-Papers-v2.docx
Word Limits:
Full research Papers: 5000 words (excluding abstract, diagrams,
tables and
references)
Research-in-progress: 3500 words (excluding abstract, diagrams,
tables and
references)
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