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COP30 in Belém: Pioneering an Open Digital Network for Sustainability

This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP) will be held in Belém, located in the Amazon region of Brazil. Among the key initiatives linked to the event is the Open Network of Belém (Rede Belém Aberta, in Portuguese), a collaborative project involving local communities,…

Aprendizajes sobre tecnologías trans y trabajo en Brasil y Argentina

Joaquim Renato Alves de Souza Me llamo Joaquim, soy una persona transmasculina brasileña, me identifico como “boyceta” y mis pronombres son ele/dele o elu/delu. Soy miembro de la cooperativa de reparto Señoritas Courier y también soy miembro del Instituto Brasileño…

Learning About Trans Technologies and Work in Brazil and Argentina

Joaquim Renato Alves de Souza My name is Joaquim. I’m a Brazilian transmasculine person, and I identify as a boyceta. My pronouns are he/him or they/them. I’m a member of the delivery cooperative Señoritas Courier and the Brazilian Institute of…

DigiLabour newsletter is back

DigiLabour Lab, now based at the University of Toronto, is resuming its successful newsletter – with 3,000+ subscribers between 2019 and 2022 – now in English. This biweekly newsletter will highlight the research of DigiLabour Lab and its partners around…

DigiLabour 2023-2024 Visiting Graduate Students

In 2023-2024, DigiLabour hosted three visiting graduate students at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. All three came from Brazil and spent months in Canada with scholarships from Brazilian and Canadian agencies. Get to know a little about each…

New research on worker-owned platforms and intersectionality

DigiLabour announces that it has received the first research funding in Canada, the Insight Development Grant, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The research, coordinated by Rafael Grohmann, focuses on worker-owned platforms and intersectionality, an action research…

Homeless Worker Movement in Brazil Launches a Primer on Digital Sovereignty

The Homeless Worker Movement in Brazil (MTST) launched a primer on digital sovereignty. It addresses issues of sovereignty and technology from social movements, workers’ struggles and the majority world. The primer was supported by the University of Toronto through the…

AI as Financial Infrastructure: interview with Edemilson Parana

This Monday, he will give a talk at the University of Toronto

Post-Elections Narratives in Brazil and the Philippines: Cross-Country Learning for Democratic Resilience

By Jose Mari Lanuza, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Rafael Grohmann, Raquel Recuero, Marcelo Alves and Camilla Tavares