Bologna Open Innovation Lab on alternative urban delivery schemes launched
On December 5th 2024, the Bologna Open Innovation Lab (OIL) was launched within the Just Transition 2nd Forum in the dedicated event…
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Joint International Workshop: “Global Infrastructures: Aesthetic Power and Affective Networks in the (Post-)colonial Present”
On 28 November, Joint International Workshop has taken place in Lisbon, organized by the Institute of Contemporary History of Lisbon and the…
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Final stretch of the INCA documentary filming
On 21 to 23 October, the INCA filming team was conducting the final set of interviews in Bologna. On this occasion, we…
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INCA RESEARCH SEMINAR: Big Tech politics and infrastructures. Current developments and potential alternatives
On 22 October, a research seminar was held in Bologna, organized by INCA partners UNIBO, SUPSI, and Fondazione IU Rusconi Ghigi. Under…
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INCA’s findings at the 7th Social Boundaries of Work International Conference
On 16-18 October, the 7th edition of the Social Boundaries of Work International Conference was held in Wroclaw, co-organised by INCA members…
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Talk with artists selected for the INCA Exhibition: ‘Cables, Data and Labour. How to Visualize Digital Capitalism’
On 17 October, taking advantage of the fact that the artists selected for the INCA exhibition were doing their residency in Bologna,…
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The INCA exhibition residency is underway
From October 14 to 18 is being held the residency for the INCA exhibition “The Big Tech and Counter-Technologies”. The five selected…
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Reconfiguration of labour power resources within platform capitalism
In the INCA’s project report entitled ‘Reconfiguration of labour power resources within platform capitalism’ (D2.2) our aim is to understand the interplay…
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Political Foundations of Evolving Capitalism in Eastern and Central Europe
The political and economic transformation of Eastern and Central Europe (ECE) since the fall of the Iron Curtain has been a complex…
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400 litres of water for a movie
“If we are lucky and humanity starts to take the climate crisis seriously, we will probably end up spending even more time…
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Selected projects for the INCA EXHIBITION: Big Tech and Counter-Technologies
After an unforeseen quantity of applications, we are very pleased to announce the four projects selected for the INCA EXHIBITION: Big Tech and…
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The INCA team in the 16th Sociological Congress of the European Sociological Association
On 27-30 August, INCA partners Olga Gitkiewicz and Szymon Pilch (University of Wrocław) participated in the 16th Sociological Congress of the European…
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Progress on INCA’s documentary
We are pleased to announce that we have completed half of the interviews for INCA’s documentary on data. Data has become a…
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A panel discussion organised by INCA at the 8th edition of the TILTingPerspectives Conference
On 9 July, in the context of the INCA project, a panel was held on ‘What We Know About How Algorithms Affect…
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INCA presentation on data intermediaries as big tech alternative at the 19th Annual ASCOLA Conference
From 4 to 6 July, INCA partner Inge Graef (Tilburg University) presented ongoing work about data intermediaries at the ASCOLA Conference, which…
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INCA presents its results at the 40th EGOS Colloquium
On 4-6 July 2024, the INCA partners Edoardo Mollona (the project coordinator, from UNIBO), Alina Contareva (HIIG) and Stephan Bohn (HIIG) participated…
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Book publication with the collaboration of the INCA team
INCA project coordinator Edoardo Mollona has co-edited a book entitled: “Disruptive Digitalisation and Platforms: Risks and Opportunities of the Great Transformation of…
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Big Tech Emerging Power: Insights from the European Landscape
Fourth INCA workshop On 16 May, as part of the programme of the first INCA scientific meeting held in Donostia/San Sebastian, took…
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INCA attracts media attention
The INCA project is generating media interest. Taking advantage of the first Scientific Meeting held in Donostia/San Sebastian on 16-17 May, some…
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INCA launches an open call for proposals for the INCA EXHIBITION: Big Tech and Counter-Technologies
We are pleased to announce an open call for projects exploring themes of Big Tech and Counter-Technologies. Big Tech and Counter-Technologies is an…
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First INCA Scientific Meeting
On 16 and 17 May San Sebastian/Donostia is hosting the first INCA scientific meeting. A year and a half after the project…
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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…