Platform Livelihoods

We’ll look at how unconscious biases become obvious barriers for women entering platform work and who needs to make it work better for…

There’s tension behind the flexibility of online work that platforms and policy makers need to recognize.

For many, the hustle is also key to surviving and thriving across digital platforms.

A methodology, including successes, challenges & tips, for putting people at the center of their own story.

Platforms offer opportunities and, more importantly, access to work and markets, but it doesn’t always translate into enough earnings.

“The problem is that there is curfew. Many of the clients were people who would go out on weekends,” Michael told me in September.

“Clients are too conscious and everybody is afraid to offer us jobs to clean their homes or offices,” Stanley told me in June.

21-year-old Tosin’s shoe & handbag online business was thriving at the start of the pandemic. All that changed between June & September.