All resources: digital labour + digital divide + artificial intelligence + gig economy + data protection + algorithmic management

Digital labour platforms in Kenya: Exploring women’s opportunities and challenges across various sectors

This report explores how the expansion of digital technologies such as digital labour platforms is reshaping Kenya’s economic landscape, and the experiences of workers engaged on these platforms, especially women.

Govt of Karnataka-ILO organize technical consultation on extending social protection to gig and platform workers

PROSPECTS podcast series - Episode 3

Inclusion is good for business: Private sector practices to include refugees and host communities in the digital economy

Transcript: Inclusion is good for business: Private sector practices to include refugees and host communities in the digital economy

Digitalize your Business

Empowering entrepreneurs and freelancers to leverage digital economy opportunities in Kenya

Through an intensive programme, ILO PROSPECTS Kenya rolled out training that supports entrepreneurs and freelancers to apply a new tool for business digitalization.

Easy-to-read version of "Making the green transition inclusive for persons with disabilities" report

Making sure that people with disabilities can take part in changes to work because of climate change

This easy-to-read version of the 2023 publication "Making the green transition inclusive for persons with disabilities" by Fundación ONCE and the ILO Global Business and Disability Network takes a closer look at the transition to a greener world of...

Digital economy

Impact of digitalization on work in developing economies revealed by new ILO research

While many see technology as a key part of the solution to contemporary development challenges, new research points to its limitations in promoting development and structural transformation.

Digitalise your Business

Digital Strategies for Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Navigating the future: Insights from Kenya's envisioning event on digital policy

The Community of Practice on Digital Skills and Jobs in Kenya convened to evaluate its strategic direction and chart the course for joint advocacy and a coordinated approach to driving an inclusive and productive digital transformation.

Future of work

Algorithmic management practices in regular workplaces are already a reality

While it can improve productivity and service quality, algorithmic management also presents risks to workers’ surveillance and job quality, particularly if there aren’t robust legal safeguards.

Note on the proceedings - Technical Meeting on Digitalization in the Retail Sector as an Engine for Economic Recovery and Decent Work...

Tackling water woes: ILO’s vocational training success in Kenya

With support from the Government and partners, ILO PROSPECTS introduced a skill development programme supporting maintenance of water sources and supply systems in a drought prone community of Garissa, Kenya. The first batch of trained Water System...

Vulnerable youth, digital skills and vocational training in Latin America

Report

Algorithmic Management practices in regular workplaces: case studies in logistics and healthcare

An analysis of algorithmic management in logistics and healthcare, examining its global impact on job quality and work organization

AI-related sectors

ILO forges alliance to unlock opportunities through digital innovation in Kenya

The ILO PROSPECTS programme facilitated an agreement between Learning Lions and Humans in the Loop, creating pathways for young people from host and refugee communities in Kenya to access opportunities in the digital economy.

Italian Presidency of the G7, 2024

Harnessing the potential of a human-centred ethical use of Artificial Intelligence on labour markets and societies

Presentation by Ms Celeste Drake, ILO Deputy Director-General, to the G7 Employment Working Group, Rome, 8 February 2024

ILO Working paper 106

Are platform workers willing to unionize? Exploring survey evidence from 14 European countries

This study contributes to the understanding of unionization in the platform economy, both in terms of membership rates among different groups of platform workers and the potential for unionization among those who are not yet members. Findings are...

AI and occupational evaluation

AI’s role in evaluating job prestige and value spotlighted by new ILO research

The utility and accuracy of AI tools in evaluating a range of job occupations, in comparison to human assessments, has potential benefits such as efficiency, cost effectiveness and speed, but some obstacles need to be overcome.

Bridging digital divide

ILO drives the inclusion of hosts and refugees in Ethiopia's digital economy

The agreements signed between International Labour Organization and Ethiopian government authorities will promote employment and policy solutions for inclusion of hosts and refugees in country's expanding digital economy.

Learning memos: Inclusive private sector development in forced displacement contexts

The learning memos capture key discussions and takeaways from the technical knowledge-sharing event on engaging and developing the private sector in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus organized by ILO PROSPECTS.