The struggle for employment rights in digital platforms: an insight on the Spanish “Rider-Law”
Digital platforms have drastically changed the way we buy, move, take care of each other and work, among other things. In the…
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March 2024: a significant advancement in the European Union’s legal framework on digital technologies
March has been a significant month for advancing the European Union’s legal framework on digital technologies. After over two years of intense…
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The struggle of workers and the consent of the state? Strategies towards platformisation in the case of Amazon in Poland
On April 4, 2024, Dr. Szymon Pilch, from the University of Wrocław team, presented a paper titled “The struggle of workers and…
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INCA presents the genealogy of digital transformations in Romania
On 14 March 2024, the INCA partners Niccolò Cuppini and Maurilio Pirone offered a Sociology Research Seminar in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, hosted by the Babeș-Bolyai…
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Lecture by Dr. Adam Mrozowicki on the regulation of platform work at Cornell University, USA
On March 4, 2024, INCA partner Dr Adam Mrozowicki, from the University of Wrocław team, held a guest lecture during the course…
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“The strategies of industrial relations actors towards platformisation and working conditions. The case of Amazon Poland”
On 22 February 2024, the INCA team from the University of Wroclaw presented a paper based on INCA project findings at the…
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International Workshop “Exploring new patterns of platform urbanization and citizenship”
From 6 to 8 February, a workshop on the relationship between digital platforms and the urban environment took place in Singapore. This…
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Exploring Gender Equality in Science: Insights from INCA Project Partners
On Sunday, 11 February, is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and INCA wants to get closer to the…
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“Infrastructure and Platforms. Emerging Political Mutations” paper published
The INCA partner Niccolò Cuppini, from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), has curated the last issue…
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Successful INCA Platform Architecture Workshop
A group of 20 experts met at the Tilburg University campus on Thursday 25 January 2024 to discuss different forms of platform…
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Chokepoints in Logistics. Organising potentials in the logistics sector in Poland in times of crises
On 9 January 2024, the members of the Department of Sociology of Work and the Economy (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) Prof. Adam Mrozowicki and…
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Investigating the Hegemony of Digital Platforms: What INCA is about
While promoting economic growth and labour transformations, digital platforms pose challenges to policymakers and citizens in relation to people’s participation in decision-making…
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To share or not to share: can data sharing be a viable strategy in platform competition?
Third INCA workshop On 13 December 2023, the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) team of the INCA project…
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Report on the historical relationship between democracies and the economy
The INCA partner UNIBO has conducted an ambitious and in-depth historical analysis of the historical relationship between democracies and the economy. This…
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Political Foundations of Evolving Capitalism in Eastern and Central Europe
The University of Tartu and the University of Wrocław have dug into a sweeping account of the politics behind the varieties of…
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Spain’s Rider Law at the Twentieth Historical Materialism Conference
On 9 November 2023, the University of Barcelona’s INCA teams gave a presentation at the Twentieth Historical Materialism Conference at SOAS (London)….
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Looking forward to a new year at INCA
The second day of the INCA Technical Meeting in Wroclaw was very productive. On the one hand, the work packages on communication,…
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INCA Technical Meeting in Wrocław
From 25 to 27 October, the second technical meeting of the INCA project is taking place in Wrocław (Poland), in the main…
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Towards a fairer platform work: policy processes and social demands
On 13 October 2023, a seminar was held in Milan on the politics of platform work for better working conditions: “Towards a…
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From ‘Big Tech’ to ‘Small Tech’: Values, Norm-Building, and Open-Source
Second INCA workshop On 12 October 2023, the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) team of the INCA project…
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INCA celebrates its first anniversary
INCA has completed its first year of operation. Since October 2022, the project consortium has been laying the foundations to make INCA…
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It’s soon time for DMA compliance
On 28 September, the European Commission offered the third round of the “Let’s Talk competition”: It’s soon time for DMA compliance. The…
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Industrial Relations in Europe Conference
Members of the INCA consortium are participating in the Industrial Relations in Europe conference in Durham, UK. The conference, which is taking…
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Global Infrastructures: The Production of the Modern World
The first INCA workshop Infrastructures have been always conceptualized as being at once an invisible and fundamental substrate of modern societies: a…
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Who is who in INCA?
A consortium of 11 partners from different countries in Europe makes up the multidisciplinary team of this project. We have conducted interviews…
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Exhibition by INCA: Data is a relation, not a property
The Bologna Attiva team by the INCA partner Fondazione Innovazione Urbana (FIU), worked together with Into the Black Box, formed among others by…
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The INCA project gets underway
On October 2022, the INCA project came into being. INCA, “Increase corporate political responsibility and accountability”, is a Horizon Europe project, coordinated…