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<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
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<p>Hope you are well! Please find the Call for Papers ffor the IFIP 9.4 Conference on "Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World", Lima, Peru, 25-27 May 2022: <a href="https://ifip.ue.edu.pe/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk370103" previewremoved="true">https://ifip.ue.edu.pe/</a></p>
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<p>The track on <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aiBc-0EkqZzbt5rv-H8205e6GezW84uJ3V715OcmLB4/edit" class="OWAAutoLink">
Digital Platforms</a> is especially interested in field-based and critical understandings of the platforms-for-development discourse. The deadline for the submission of papers is 7 January 2022. Below is the full text of the track's CfP.</p>
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<p>All the best,</p>
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<p>The Track Chairs Silvia Masiero, Brian Nicholson, Petter Nielsen, Johan Sæbø</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Track 1: Digital Platforms</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Silvia Masiero, University of Oslo,
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(90, 159, 70); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">silvima@ifi.uio.no</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brian Nicholson, University of Manchester,
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(90, 159, 70); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brian.nicholson@manchester.ac.uk</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Petter Nielsen, University of Oslo,
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Johan Ivar Sæbø, University of Oslo,
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Koskinen et al. (2019) draw on Gawer (2014) and Evans & Gawer (2016)
in classifying platforms based on their purpose, distinguishing transaction (multi-sided markets facilitating transactions among counterparts) from innovation platforms (technological building blocks for developing services and products). They also suggest
a four-point research agenda for researchers on digital platforms in the Global South, inviting research on (1) how to release the developmental potential of innovation platforms, (2) systematic differences among digital platforms in the Global North and the
Global South, (3) the extent to which and ways how transaction platforms may exacerbate inequalities, and (4) alternatives to private platforms, such as in the public and non-profit sector. Over the last two years the platforms-for-development debate has evolved
into these four directions and new ones, which papers submitted to this track are invited to explore.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New directions for debate are characterised by an interdisciplinary
orientation, as well as an increasing pervasiveness of critical accounts of the platforms-for-development discourse. For example, innovation platforms have been framed as an instantiation of global public goods characterised, in principle, by features of non-rivalry
and non-exclusivity (Nicholson et al., 2019b), which invites attention from economic and redistributional theoretical lenses. Platforms and digital entrepreneurship present some optimistic themes for development of small and micro businesses such as Amazon
marketplace and freelancing platforms such as Upwork. At the same time, critical accounts that problematise the ability of platforms to pursue traditional “development” objectives (for example, empowering marginalised communities) have emerged, for instance
around the precarity and vulnerability induced in workers of digital labour platforms (Anwar & Graham, 2020; Graham et al., 2020). Highlighting the persistence of structural power asymmetry in such platforms, these accounts question the view that promptly
lumps platforms diffusion with the ability to promote development goals. Dominance of the major global platforms continues to threaten the growth of indigenous platforms and presents threats to privacy and surveillance (Scholtz, 2016; Srnicek, 2017; Taplin,
2017; Zuboff, 2019).</span></p>
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include (but are not limited to):</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conceptual contributions on digital platforms and their theoretical links with (different
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovation platforms as global public goods and their potential for generating development,
as well as the challenges encountered in generating this potential,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Livelihood-generating platforms (e-commerce, digital labour), their affordances and
constraints in empowering subjects and resulting into sustained development outcomes,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Digital entrepreneurship and the role of platforms in opening up small and micro business
opportunity in freelancing, app development,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development implications of the role of digital platforms in transforming traditional
sectors (e.g. fintech for development, consequences for the Global South),</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Digital cooperation as enabled, transformed, or otherwise influenced by different types
of platforms,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Critical accounts centred on the “dark side” of platforms, asymmetries, data injustices,
or any other forms of perverse effects problematising the view of platforms as enablers of positive development outcomes.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All submission information for the Conference is available at:
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission deadline: 7 January 2022</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full research Papers: 5000 words (excluding abstract, diagrams,
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3500 words (excluding abstract, diagrams, tables and references)</span></p>
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