{"id":113,"date":"2017-11-23T06:06:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T06:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2018-09-28T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T11:33:46","slug":"research-network","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/research-network\/","title":{"rendered":"RESEARCH NETWORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mpl-content-wrap\"><p><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-283132  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\">Research and Policy Making Through the Data of Platform Enterprises<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">Canada<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"2\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/17918065_10158556020875430_534441298751248801_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Katherine Reilly\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Katherine Reilly<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Simon Fraser University<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Katherine Reilly is Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.  She has a long history of research in the field of ICT4D and Open Development and has recently begun studying the peer-to-peer mobile economy in developing countries.  She is co-editor of a special edition on the Sharing Economy in the Journal of Developing Societies with Anil Hira (2017), and co-editor of Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development with Matthew Smith (MIT Press, 2014).\r\n<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/profile-pic-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Carol Mu\u00f1oz Nieves\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Carol Mu\u00f1oz Nieves<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Simon Fraser University<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Carol is a Cuban scholar in the field of mass communication and media industries, with experience as a researcher, university lecturer, journalist, social media manager and webmaster. She is just completing an MA in Communications at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her research interests relate to the political economy of telecommunications and wireless systems, state socialism, sharing economy and Marxism. <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-30745  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\">Towards Inclusive Platformization in Nigeria<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">Nigeria<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <ul class=\"mpl-list-md-4\">    <li>  <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kemi-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Kemi Ogunyemi \">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Kemi Ogunyemi <\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Lagos business school<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Kemi Ogunyemi is the Director of the Christopher Kolade Centre for Research in Leadership and Ethics at Lagos Business School, Nigeria. Her consulting and research interests include personal ethos and organizational culture, responsible leadership and sustainability, and work-life ethic. She has authored over thirty articles, case studies and book chapters and the book titled \u2018Responsible Management: Understanding Human Nature, Ethics and Sustainability\u2019. She edited the series 'Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum' and is a member of the expert group for UNODC's Education for Justice (E4J) initiative. <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/li>    <li>  <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ogechi-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ogechi Adeola\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Ogechi Adeola<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Lagos Business School<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Ogechi Adeola\u00a0teaches Marketing Management at the Lagos Business School (Pan-Atlantic University), Nigeria. Her research interests include tourism and hospitality marketing, strategic marketing, digital marketing strategies, brand management, export marketing strategies, microfinance and financial inclusion in developing economies, particularly sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/li>    <li>  <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Martha-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Onyeajuwa\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Martha Onyeajuwa<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Pan-Atlantic UNIVERSIty<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Martha Onyeajuwa, holds a PhD in Communications policy from the University of Westminster, UK and an Executive MBA from the International Graduate School of Management, University of Navarra, Spain. In 2011, Martha joined the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University as member of faculty. Currently she facilitates Market Research and Digital Color Technology. Previously, she has had an extensive career in the telecommunications industry, working as Director, Standards and later Director, Traffic and Network Optimization at the Nigerian Communications Commission.<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/li>    <li>  <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Uchechukwu-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Uchechukwu Aneke\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Uchechukwu Aneke<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">University of Ibadan<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Uchechukwu Aneke is a legal practitioner and a volunteer Research Assistant at the Christopher Kolade Centre for Research in Leadership and Ethics (CRLE). She is a graduate of law from the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu. She later went to the Nigerian Law School in 2011 and was called to\u200e the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2012. Uche is currently working on a LL.M degree at the University of Ibadan while volunteering with Lagos Business School.<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/li>    <\/ul>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-165891  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\">Data Policies: Regulatory Approaches for Data-Driven Platforms in the UK and EU<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">United Kingdom<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"3\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Arne_Hintz.jpg\" alt=\"Arne HIntz \">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Arne HIntz <\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Cardiff University<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Arne Hintz is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University\u2019s School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, where he leads the MA Digital Media and Society, and co-directs the Data Justice Lab. His research addresses questions of digital democracy and communication policy. He has led the collaborative research project Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks and chairs the Global Media Policy Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and has contributed as policy expert to the work of organisations such as the Open Rights Group. His publications include, among others, Beyond WikiLeaks (2013).<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dencik-lina.png\" alt=\"Lina Dencik\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Lina Dencik<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Cardiff University<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Lina Dencik is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Her\u00a0research concerns the interplay between media developments and social and political change, with a particular focus on resistance and globalization. Recently, she has moved into the areas of digital surveillance and the politics of data and is Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University, UK. Her publications include Media and Global Civil Society (2012), Worker Resistance and Media (2015) and Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest (2015). Lina is Principal Investigator\u00a0on the project 'Data justice: understanding datafication in relation to social justice' funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Joanna-Redden.jpg\" alt=\"Joanna Redden\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Joanna Redden<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Cardiff University<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Joanna Redden is a Lecturer at Cardiff University\u2019s School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on the datafication of governance. She investigates how government information systems and service provision are changing, the democratic implications of changing government practices and how these changes are affecting people. Previous work has considered the relationships between digital media and poverty politics. Joanna is Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University, UK. She is co-editor of Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data (2015) and author of The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media and Politics (2014).\r\n<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-340350  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\">Peer to Peer lending platforms as tools for financial inclusion in Uruguay<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">Uruguay<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"2\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Mercedes-Aguirre-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mercedes Aguirre \">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Mercedes Aguirre <\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">ORT University<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Mercedes Aguirre holds a Master\u2019s degree on Financial Management, a bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics from Universidad ORT Uruguay and a specialization in Risk Management from Alcal\u00e1 University. In line with her specialization in Microfinance from the Boulder Institute of Microfinance, she has devoted several years to research topics related to Small and Medium Enterprises as well as the microinsurance market. She has more than 12 years\u2019 experience working in the area of financial markets in fields such as capital markets, retirement pension financials and sovereign wealth funds, among others. As team lead of the Risk and Financial Services in Willis Towers Watson\u2019s Research and Innovation Center she has participated in several research initiatives such as the book Enterprise Risk Management for Small and Medium Enterprises, published in collaboration with the US Society of Actuaries. Her academic experience involves more than 5 years teaching at both bachelor and Master degree programs in Universidad ORT Uruguay and Universidad Americana of Paraguay, covering the fields of risk management and capital markets. \r\n<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sandra-Garcia-Rivadulla.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Garcia-Rivadulla \">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Sandra Garcia-Rivadulla <\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">independent researcher<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Sandra Garcia-Rivadulla holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Library and Information Science from Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica (UdelaR, Uruguay), and a Master\u2019s degree on Digital Libraries and Information Services from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She has more than 15 years\u2019 work experience in different types of libraries: university, research centers, popular and schools libraries, later joining Willis Towers Watson\u2019s Research and Innovation Center. She has been part of the research group Information Literacy and Reading Competences supported by the Program for the Academic Development of Information and Communication (PRODIC), an initiative of the Faculty of Information and Communication (FIC), UdelaR. Her research has focused on information literacy and the social web in libraries.\r\n<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-925690  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\"> A New Land of Giants: Policy for Digital Platforms in Media and Audiovisual Markets in Brazil<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">Brazil<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"3\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/francisco-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Francisco Brito Cruz\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Francisco Brito Cruz<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">InternetLab<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Francisco is a co-Director of the InternetLab and the project lead for the InternetLab Reports project. Francisco holds a master\u2019s degree in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil), where he also earned his bachelor of laws degree (LL.B., 2011). He is a member of Brazil\u2019s Empirical Legal Research Network (REED) and winner of the \u201cBrazil\u2019s Internet Framework Bill & Development Award\u201d (Google\/FGV-SP). In 2013, Francisco was a visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society from the University of California at Berkeley. He was also a teaching assistant at Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Getulio Vargas Law School. Between 2012 and 2014, he acted as the coordinator of the Internet, Law & Society Nucleus at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (NDIS-USP).\r\n<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/mariana1-1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mariana Valente\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Mariana Valente<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">InternetLab<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Mariana is a co-Director of the InternetLab and a PhD candidate in Sociology of Law at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, where she also earned her Masters degree. She was a Visiting Researcher at the UC Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall between 2016 and 2017. In 2015 and 2016, she coordinated the Law, Internet and Society Nucleus at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (NDIS-USP). Between 2014 and 2016, she was a researcher and consultant for the Digital Collections Project at the Center for Technology and Society at FGV, where she also co-coordinated the Open Business Models Project, focusing on copyright in the digital music era (2012-2014), and taught the Intellectual Rights class (2014) at the Law school. At FGV, she was one of the legal coordinators of the Creative Commons Brazil. Since 2008, she is also a reasearcher at the Brazilian Center of Law and Democracy for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), where she co-authored projects for the Thinking the Law program (Ministry of Justice), in the areas of women\u2019s rights, legislative process and intellectual property. <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2017-08-03-01.12.23-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Luciano\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Maria Luciano<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">InternetLab<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">In addition to being a researcher at InternetLab, Maria is currently pursuing her Masters in Law at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, where she also earned her Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B., 2016).  She is a former scholarship holder from Programa de Tutoria Cient\u00edfico-Acad\u00eamica, Programa de Est\u00edmulo ao Ensino de Gradua\u00e7\u00e3o (PEEG) and Programa de Educa\u00e7\u00e3o Tutorial (PET), of the Brazilian Ministry of Education.  She has previously worked as a  researcher at FGV DIREITO SP. <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-122244  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\">Protection of Users in the Platform Economy: a European perspective<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">France, Belgium, Italy<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"3\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DUCATO-Rossana-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Rossana Ducato\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Rossana Ducato<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Rossana is a postdoctoral researcher in Law at Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain and Universit\u00e9 Saint-Louis de Bruxelles.  She is currently working as principal investigator on the project \u201cThe Internet of Platforms: an empirical research on private ordering and consumer protection in the sharing economy\u201d.  She is also a lecturer in Comparative e-Health Law at the University of Trento (Italy) and a fellow of the Law and Technology research group (Faculty of Law, University of Trento). Her research interests are always pursued in a comparative vein and range from Tort and Contract Law, to Consumer protection, Intellectual Property, and Privacy, with a special focus on the problems related to new technologies and their impact on society. \r\n<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/STROWEL-Alain-200x300.png\" alt=\"Alain Strowel\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Alain Strowel<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Saint-Louis University<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Alain is professor at the Saint-Louis University (Brussels) and the UCLouvain. \r\nHe specializes in intellectual property and information and technology law.\r\nHe teaches courses in digital copyright and media and information law. The intersections between\u00a0law and technology\u00a0and\u00a0law and innovation\u00a0are at the core of his teachings and research. At UCLouvain, Alain teaches among others, a course on \u2018Intellectual Property and New Technology\u2019. He also teaches for LLM programs organized by the KULeuven (course of \u2018Design law\u2019) and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (\u2018Practice of copyright law\u2019). <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KLECZEWSKI-Anne-Grace-.jpeg\" alt=\"Anne-Grace Kleczewski \">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Anne-Grace Kleczewski <\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">After graduating from the Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, Anne-Grace started her career as a corporate lawyer handling mergers and acquisitions in one of Belgian major law firms. Participating at a start-up contest and attending entrepreneurship themed conferences however triggered her interest in the business of collaborative platforms and being part of the sharing economy phenomenon.  She now researches this topic and its regulatory implications in terms of liability, governance and taxation of both platforms and their providers as a full-time researcher at the CRIDES center of the law faculty at the Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain. <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-36476  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"2\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/MARIQUE-Enguerrand.jpeg\" alt=\"Enguerrand Marique\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Enguerrand Marique<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">University Catholique De Louvain<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Enguerrand Marique holds a Masters in Transnational, Comparative and Foreign Law (MA, UCLouvain, Belgium, 2016). Enguerrand also studied International Commercial Law at UC Davis, California and began his doctoral research in September 2016. His research focuses mainly on the legal means to build trust in the platform economy with a multidisciplinary focus (law, economics and sociology). He is a member of ROSELS, the Research Observatory on Sharing Economy, Law, and Society.\r\n<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wattecamps.png\" alt=\"C\u00e9line Wattecamps\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">C\u00e9line Wattecamps<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">C\u00e9line works as a teaching assistant and is a PhD candidate at the Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain, where she obtained her law degree. She specialized in labor and social security law at the Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles. She started her career by working as an employment lawyer during 6 years at the Barreau de Bruxelles.  Going back to university has been the perfect opportunity for her to engage in the stimulating and international world of scientific research. Celine became passionate about labor law because of its focus on human relationships.  She likes to explore work and employment related questions from a legal point of view complemented by an interdisciplinary approach. Her doctoral research focuses on the issue of regulating crowd work in labor law. She is a member of ROSELS, the Research Observatory on Sharing Economy, Law, and Society.<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/plugins\/mageewp-page-layout\/assets\/images\/params\/team_370_370.jpg\" alt=\"Team 3\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Team 3<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">CEO<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam congue gravida.<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">  <li><a href=\"#\"><i class=\"fa fa-instagram\"><\/i><\/a><\/li>   <li><a href=\"#\"><i class=\"fa fa-facebook\"><\/i><\/a><\/li>   <li><a href=\"#\"><i class=\"fa fa-google-plus\"><\/i><\/a><\/li>   <li><a href=\"#\"><i class=\"fa fa-envelope\"><\/i><\/a><\/li>  <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-741580  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\">Mapping Rioplatense Platform Economy. The case of MercadoLibre in Uruguay and Argentina<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">Argentina, Uruguay<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"3\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rivoir.png\" alt=\"Ana Laura Rivoir\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Ana Laura Rivoir<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Ana Laura Rivoir is a full time researcher and professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de la Republica. She has been conducting the research group ObervaTIC (Observatory on Information and Communication Technologies) at Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica since 2007.<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/artopoulos-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandro Artopoulos\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Alejandro Artopoulos<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Universidad de San Andr\u00e9s<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Alejandro is Professor at the School of Education of Universidad de San Andr\u00e9s, Argentina. His research examines informational development in Latin America using Actor Network Theory. His fieldwork concerns educational change both in relation to use of Internet at schools, as the emergence of knowledge-based economy. He is  a Advisor to ConectarIgualdad and MOE Argentina and a visiting Professor at UBA, UNGS, y Universit\u00e0 di Bologna. Alejandro  has previously been  a consultant for INTEL, Samsung, AACREA, UNESCO, IADB, PNUD.\r\n<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/huarte-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Jimena Huarte\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Jimena Huarte<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Universidad de San Andr\u00e9s<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Jimena Huarte is a Research Assistant at the Universidad de San Andres. She has is currently pursuing her Masters in Education at Universidad de San Andr\u00e9s, Argentina.\r\n<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-180913  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\">Travel platforms: Addressing Social, Environmental and Gender Concerns<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">Indonesia<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"2\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Caitlin_Bentley-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Caitlin Bentley\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Caitlin Bentley<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">independent researcher<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Caitlin Bentley has been working within the area of information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D) since 2003. She began researching the use of ICT within civil society organisations in Africa and in Canada, and has contributed to a number of projects focused on enhancing learning and accountability through ICT. In 2015, she started working for the Singapore Internet Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University to pursue her interests in open development, which she views as a window to address structural inequalities and to take advantage of new collaboration opportunities afforded by networked ICTs. She helped to create a programme of research on open development, within which she has co-edited a book entitled Critical Perspectives on Open Development: Empirical Interrogation of Theory Construction (due for publication in 2018). Caitlin holds a PhD in Human Geography from Royal Holloway University of London, and an MA in Educational Technology from Concordia University, Canada. <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SHB.foto-pak-ilya-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ilya Fadjar Maharika\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Ilya Fadjar Maharika<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Universitas de Islam<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Maharika\u2019s research background is on urban - rural spatial dynamics. He holds a doctorate in engineering in the field of architectural theory and urbanism. His current research is on the interventions to urban-rural dynamics in Indonesia including through information technology and open design. He works primarily with students on expanding architectural and urban theories through conceptual and experimental intervention on built environment. He also  collaborated with external researchers such as  Marc B\u00f6hlen, professor in media science at the University of Buffalo on experimental architecture-and- data integration in the AirKami Project (airkami.org). Together, they have  published several conference articles including prototyping ubiquitous biosensing through speculative design and biosensing in the kampung. A full report on AirKami Project will be published in a journal entitled \u201cLearning from Waterbank: After Cloud Computing and Biosensing in the Kampung.\u201d Currently Ilya is researching the impact of environmental data for informal urbanism in Yogyakarta and a book on Open Urban Design with his students in architectural design studio. He is also a registered architect in Indonesia.<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-947595  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\">Investigating the operational and labour policy frameworks for taxi-hailing platforms: Case of Uber and Taxify in South Africa<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">South Africa<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"3\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chiumbu-Sarah-5-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Chimbu\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Sarah Chimbu<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">INdependent researcher<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Sarah Chiumbu is an independent researcher working in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sarah has over 15 years of teaching, research and media activist work. Her areas of research expertise are in: Digital Media, Media Policy & Regulation, Media & Democracy, Community & Alternative Media and Policy Analysis. Sarah has been Principle Investigator on several scholarly projects and has undertaken a range of advisory and consultancy assignments with several funding and NGO institutions. <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Admire-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Admire Mare\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Admire Mare<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">University of Johannesburg<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Admire Mare is currently a Global Excellence in Stature Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the department of Journalism. Film and Television at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), Auckland Campus. He was a senior qualitative researcher in the UNESCO project on \u201cWorld Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development.\u201d His research interests include: social media, political communication, digital activism and journalism, youth studies, critical political economy of platforms, war and peace journalism as well as communication surveillance in Southern Africa.<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Mopfu-199x300.png\" alt=\"Shepherd Mpofu \">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Shepherd Mpofu <\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">university of johannesburg<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Shepherd Mpofu holds a Ph.D. in Media Studies and is currently a Global Excellence Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg. His research and teaching interests are in media and identity, politics, digital media, citizen journalism and comparative media systems. His latest publications include the following: \u2018Making heroes, (un)making the nation?: ZANU-PF\u2019s imaginations of the Heroes Acre, heroes and construction of identity in Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2015\u2019 (African Identities), and \u2018Toxification of national holidays and national identity in Zimbabwe\u2019s post 2000 nationalism\u2019 (Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28: 1, pp. 28\u201343).<\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><section class=\"mpl-section-team mpl-elm mpl-css-816547  mpl-section mpl-section-inner\" id=\"\"> <div class=\"mpl-section-content\"> <div class=\"mpl-container\">  <div class=\"mpl-section-title-wrap text-center\">  <h2 class=\"mpl-section-title\">Deliver on the promise of the platform economy in China: A policy agenda for inclusive development<\/h2>   <p class=\"mpl-section-subtitle\">China<\/p>  <\/div>  <div class=\"mpl-section-content-wrap\"> <div class=\"mpl-team\">  <div class=\"mpl-carousel-wrap\"> <div class=\"owl-carousel mpl-carousel mpl-team-carousel \" data-owl-options='{\"items\":\"3\",\"speed\":500,\"navigation\":\"\",\"pagination\":\"\",\"autoheight\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"\"}'>     <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Julie-1.png\" alt=\"Julie Yujie Chen\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Julie Yujie Chen<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">University of Leicester<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Julie Yujie Chen is Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. Studying and writing about digital labor issues, Chen is particularly interested in how interplay among technologies, cultural contexts, and existing socio-economic structures impacts on the experience and perceptions of digital work and how workers\u2019 lived experience with ICT constructs their own narratives.\u00a0She has spent 14 months on studying ride-hailing platforms and care worker platforms in mainland China and Hong Kong. Chen published the first studies on ride-hailing apps in China in\u00a0New Media & Society.\u00a0Chen specializes in studying how ICT and the narratives around technology and development shift, shape, and reorganize work. Currently she is working on a book manuscript studying datafication power and digital labor rights.\u00a0 <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jack-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Linchuan Qiu\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Jack Linchuan Qiu<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Jack Linchuan Qiu is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he serves as deputy director of the C-Centre (Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research).Qiu is specialized in ICT policy, digital labor, and social development. His publications include Goodbye iSlave (Univ of Illinois Press, 2016), World\u2019s Factory in the Information Age (Guangxi Normal Univ Press, 2013), Working-Class Network Society (MIT Press, 2009), Mobile Communication and Society (co-authored, MIT Press, 2006), some of which have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean. He is on the editorial boards of 12 international academic journals, including six indexed in the SSCI, and is Associate Editor for Journal of Communication. He also works with grassroots NGOs and provides consultancy services for international organizations. Qiu is also a member of Information Society 50 Forum, a consortium of policy-makers and leading scholars from economics and ICT studies in China. <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>      <div class=\"mpl-person text-center\"> <div class=\"img-box figcaption-middle text-center fade-in\">  <img src=\"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sophie-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sophie Ping Sun\">   <\/div> <div class=\"person-vcard\">  <h3 class=\"person-name\">Sophie Ping Sun<\/h3>   <h4 class=\"person-title\">chinese academy of social science<\/h4>   <p class=\"person-desc\">Sophie Ping Sun is Assistant Professor at the Department of Journalism and Communication in Chinese Academy of Social Science. She has studied IT industry and knowledge workers in China. Sun has also conducted interviews with corporate leaders from food delivery platform companies and start preliminary researches on workers on food delivery platforms. Her publication has appeared in Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. She is also the recipient of best student paper for International Communication Association Post-Conference and 14th Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC). <\/p>  <ul class=\"person-social\">     <\/ul> <\/div> <\/div>     <\/div> <\/div>  <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>  <\/section><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/platformpolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}