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\n\t\tResearch Sprint: Sustainable digital economies\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

This research sprint addresses the topic of online gig work in Ghana and specific aspects of work brokered via online platforms in the region. Over the course of eight weeks the research fellows, guided by the project team, develop approaches to inform practitioners and policy makers in Ghana about the country’s online gigwork ecosystem and its governance. The sprint is taking place online and closes with a finishing week in Accra, Ghana.<\/p>\n

Digital platforms have become central ecosystems for economic activity in the 21st century. On two-sided markets, they mediate between buyers and sellers of digital work or enable novel business opportunities. At the same time, they amplify existing polarisation of work, workers and economic resources and call for new regulatory measures in an increasingly uneven digital economy. Both the benefits and perils of the digital platform economy on the economic development pathway are distinctly visible in\u00a0 sub-Saharan Africa. How can platform work in sub-Saharan Africa be shaped sustainably? What role does fairness play in regulation and the exchange between different interest groups? These are just some of the many pressing questions related to platform economy and regulation, which we address in an interdisciplinary research sprint with exciting structures for policy impact (both public and private).<\/p>\n

The fellows collaborate in two research groups, each dealing with a different research question:<\/p>\n

Group A<\/b> is researching marketable skills and their teaching in local environments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Group B<\/b> is looking at platform infrastructure and how it could be improved from a workers’ rights perspective.<\/p>\n

The research process was accompanied by several input sessions on methodology, work structure and research impact optimisation, utilising the Research Impact Canvas<\/a>. This canvas – developed at HIIG – supports the fellows’ aim of placing their findings with people and institutions involved in policy making and with agenda setting power, seeking to maximise the political consideration of their findings.<\/p>\n

The findings will be presented at the closing week in Accra, Ghana in late July of 2022. The audience for these presentations will consist of relevant stakeholders such as local policy makers. Key questions regarding policy recommendations are the following:<\/p>\n