Issues, Challenges and Opportunities addressed:
The data-propelled tendency towards monopoly in the digital age means that small players stand little chance at reaping the data dividend. To realize the objective of inclusion for all actors in the platform economy, we need a new social contract for data that can serve the needs of different actors – developing nations, small and mid-sized platform firms, workers, platform users and so on. This session will therefore aim at enriching the current understanding of evolving policy spaces, data regimes and platform ecosystems is useful to be able to inform this process