Policies for an equitable platform economy anita gurumurthy IT for Change WTO Public Forum - 4 Oct 2018
Fintech: transforms financial transactions VoD: disrupts E-commerce r content emakes the production global and Tourism & marketplace consumption hospitality: remodels local economic Platformization Agritech and and cultural grocery autonomy e-tail : Reengineers the value Care/gig work : chain Ride-hailing : reconfigures restructures work and mobility labor infrastructure relations
Data Governing the platform economy: a multi-level governance policy challenge for developing states frameworks lack thinking Global trade around data’s Sectoral paradigms continue to economic transformations privilege global North value on account of interests and platformization undermine economic make old justice regulation Current approaches to approaches regulating the digital inefficient and lead to economic and obsolete. social injustice
Understanding the The The The The inter-connected The The policy The dimensions
Data Competition Governance Ride-hailing Taxation Anti-trust Citizen privacy Transport safeguards Online Data localization SME rentals amd E-commerce Data sharing incentivization bookings Trade, FDI Tourism and hospitality Regulating the platform Consumer economy Citizen rights rights Fintech Agritech and grocery e-tail Finance and Labor Banking Agriculture VoD Worker rights Platform Livelihood governance protection and guarantees Media
Revamping Creating policy spaces macro-economic for alternatives frameworks Data-governance for economic sovereignty Directions for Establishing a level Reframing global justice cross-cutting playing field policy Ensuring livelihood security Protecting citizen rights
Revamping macro-economic frameworks - creating a strategic policy road-map Reframing policies in traditional socio-economic sectors Updating capacities of officials in public systems Differentiated policies for data Enhancing educational curriculum to optmize platform participation for citizens Institutional mechanisms for social audit of platforms
Data governance for economic sovereignty - towards data as a public good Building public Digitizing legacy data digital infrastructure sets to build digital Mandating data that can contribute sharing by private intelligence solutions to the aggregation of platforms in key with due attention to data and the creation sectors. privacy, transparency of digital intelligence and accountability solutions. safeguards
Establishing a level playing field Foster domestic innovation through incentivizing startups and MSMEs Create domain agnostic competition laws that have clear and comprehensive enforceability Create tax-compliance policies to ensure local economies benefit from the presence and operations of digital platforms.
Ensuring livelihood security Targeted approaches that Social protection and promote equal Systems of liability traditional employment participation of for platforms to benefits for platform women and hold them workers -- employment marginalized accountable benefits and collective communities in the bargaining rights gig economy, with due attention to their rights
Guaranteeing citizen rights in a datafied society Governments should enforce quotas for local, indigenous and independent content in the catalogues of VoD Frameworks of data platforms. privacy must maximize real choice for citizens and take into account group/community right to data Consumer rights frameworks should be updated to apply to digital platforms.
Reframing global economic justice- a way forward Developing countries Developing countries should work through need to regulate their regional blocs to better capital markets by protect their interests drawing up strategic Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Digital TNCs need to be regulation. brought into the binding treaty for TNCs being negotiated now.
Enabling environments that formally recognize and support alternative platforms Promoting Creating policy innovative spaces for Creating city/local level national policy alternatives - led platforms that pathways towards a function as a public through applied solidarity economy good research Provisioning of public goods - digital and non digital to lay the ground for a culture of innovation.
Meituan-Dianping - Chinese super platform
Diverse market places - independent platforms
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