Buongiorno, se ci sono dei nexiani interessati, INDL (International Network on Digital Labor), in collaborazione con la MSH Paris Saclay e France Stratégie (un servizio di prospettiva economica del primo ministro francese), organizza un convegno di due giorni su micro-work, crowd-work, IA e politiche del lavoro. Ci saranno parecchi ospiti internazionali e un panel "Meet the micro-workers" in cui dei lavoratori delle piattaforme incontreranno proprietari e clienti. L'iscrizione è gratuita. Il primo giorno è aperto a tutti e con traduzione simultanea in inglese, il secondo è su invito e solo in inglese. Vi allego il programma e il link per saperne di più è: http://endl.network/events/conferences/indl-1-conference/ Se la cosa vi interessa, non tardate a iscrivervi o a scrivermi per più informazioni. ---- MICROWORK PLATFORMS: A CHALLENGE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, A CHALLENGE FOR EMPLOYMENT? In the wake of digitalization and artificial intelligence, what role do microtasking platforms play in the transformation of work? Two days to discuss micro-work from policy and academic perspectives. Day 1 (Policy perspectives, 13 June 2019). Register here: https://f.infos.france-strategie.fr/c/?s=162A-9D-2 Day 2 (Academic perspectives, 14 June 2019). By invitation only. France Stratégie, MSH-Paris Saclay, and INDL (International Network on Digital Labor), convene a two-day international conference in Paris on June 13-14, 2019. The event will include a « meet the microworkers » panel on June 13, where workers, platform owners and client companies will take the stage, as well as the first INDL PhD workshop on June 14. There will also be presentations of the results of national and international surveys on these emerging forms of work, and discussions with French and international academic and institutional experts, as well as worker representatives. After Uber, Deliveroo and other on-demand services, microwork is a new form of labor mediated by digital platforms. Internet and mobile services recruit crowds to perform small, standardized and repetitive tasks on behalf of corporate clients, in return for fees ranging from few cents to few euros. These tasks generally require low skills: taking a picture in a store, recognizing and classifying images, transcribing bits of text, formatting an electronic file… Despite their apparent simplicity, these micro-tasks performed by millions of people around the world, are crucial to create the databases needed to calibrate and « train » artificial intelligence algorithms. Internationally, Amazon Mechanical Turk is the most widely known micro-work platform. In France and in French-speaking Africa, other platforms are attracting a growing number of workers to supplement or even substitute for their primary income. How widespread is the phenomenon? How to recognize, organize and regulate this new form of work? How, finally, does it relate to traditional forms of employment? Presentations and discussions on Day 1 will be held in French and English, with simultaneous translation. For Day 2 presentations and discussions will be in English. Conference speakers include: Mariya Aleksynska, IZA Gilles Babinet, CNNum Daniel Benoilid, co-founder of Wirk / Foulefactory Stijn Broecke, OECD Antonio Casilli, Telecom ParisTech & DiPLab project Alessandro Delfanti, University of Toronto Joseph Dureau, CTO of Snips Ulrich Laitenberger, Telecom ParisTech Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute Clément Le Ludec, MSH Paris Saclay Johan Lindquist, University of Stockholm Anoush Margaryan, Copenhagen Business School Gilles de Margerie, Commissioner General of France Stratégie Florian Alexander Schmidt, Dresden University of Technology Paola Tubaro, CNRS & DiPLab project Patricia Vendramin, Catholic University of Leuven Louis-Charles Viossat, IGAS Thiebaut Weber, independent researcher, former CES Niels Van Doorn, University of Amsterdam -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor (HDR), Telecom ParisTech Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS) Associate Member, LACI-IIAC (EHESS) Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet & Society