Credits and Funding

Fairwork is a project run out of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and the Berlin Social Science Center, and draws on the expertise and experience of staff at Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the American University in Cairo’s School of Business, Audencia Business School, Center for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research (CREDI), Centre for Labour Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong's Centre for Social Innovation Studies, CIPG Innovation Policy Governance, CIPPEC, CREDI, De La Salle University, FLACSO-Ecuador, Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute for a Fair Economy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB), International University of Rabat, iSocial, KU Leuven, Lagos Business School, Luigj Gurakuqi University of Shkodër, National University of Singapore, Observatorio de Plataformas Perú, Phenix Center for Economics & Informatics Studies, Pollicy, Public Policy Research Center (CENTAR), Qhala, REPOA, Sapienza University of Rome, Solidarity Center, Technical University of Berlin, TEDIC, The Policy Initiative, TU Wien, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad del Rosario, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Universitas Gadjah Mada's Center for Digital Society, University of California's Hastings College of the Law, University of Cape Town, University of Ghana Business School, University of Manchester, University of the Western Cape, Weizenbaum Institut, and XU Exponential University. 

Authors: Matthew Cole, Alessio Bertolini, Tatiana López, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Jonas Valente, Patrick Feuerstein, Murali Shanmugavelan, Mark Graham.

Fairwork Team: Jana Ababneh, Pablo Agüera Reneses, Iftikhar Ahmad, Gina Alaschkar, Maria Belen Albornoz, Luis Pablo Alonzo, Moritz Altenried, Oğuz Alyanak, Hayford Amegbe, Branka Andjelkovic, Viridiana Ángel, Thomas Anning-Dorson, Marcos Aragão, María Arnal, Arturo Arriagada, Daniel Arubayi, Tat Chor Au-Yeung, Ahmad Awad, Adam Badger, Marina Benedine, Ariane Berthoin Antal, Alessio Bertolini, Gautam Bhatia, Virgel Binghay, Richard Boateng, Manuela Bojadzijev, Ameline Bordas, Álvaro Briales, Joseph Budu, Callum Cant, Rodrigo Carelli, Eiser Carnero Apaza, Eduardo Carrillo, Chris King Chi Chan, Henry Chavez, Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil, Andrea Ciarini, Matthew Cole, Antonio Corasaniti, Pamela Custodio, Kavita Dattani, Olayinka David-West, Nadia De Jesús Pacheco, Luisa De Vita, Alejandra S. Y. Dinegro Martínez, Brikena Kapisyzi Dionizi, Markieta Domecka, Marta D'Onofrio, Elvisa Drishti, Darcy du Toit, Veena Dubal, Nagham El Houssamy, Haya El Zayat, Batoul ElMehdar, Elisa Errico, Fabian Ferrari, Pia Garavaglia, Chana Garcia, Beatriz García, Sharon Geeling, Navneet Gidda, Shikoh Gitau, Slobodan Golusin, Saúl Gomez, Mark Graham, Markus Griesser, Rafael Grohmann, Martin Gruber-Risak, Julieta Haidar, Khadiga Hassan, Richard Heeks, Mabel Rocío Hernández Díaz, Kelle Howson, Francisco Ibáñez, Shahidul Islam, Neema Iyer, Tanja Jakobi, Athar Jameel, Abdul Bashiru Jibril, Ermira Hoxha Kalaj, Zeynep Karlidag, Lucas Katera, Mishal Khan, Bresena Dema Kopliku, Maja Kovac, Anjali Krishan, Martin Krzywdzinski, Amela Kurta, Ilma Kurtović, Morad Kutkut, Arturo Lahera-Sánchez, Sebastian Lew, Jorge Leyton, Tatiana López Ayala, Georgina Lubke, Bilahari M, Raiyaan Mahbub, Amruta Mahuli, Oscar Javier Maldonado, Laura Clemencia Mantilla León, Claudia Marà, Paolo Marinaro, Ana Flavia Marques, Margreta Medina, Caterina Morbiato, Nacef Mouri, Jamal Msami, Baraka Mwaura, Bonnita Nyamwire, Oluwatobi A. Ogunmokun, Kemi Ogunyemi, Caroline A Omware, Leonhard Plank, Frederick Pobee, Valeria Pulignano, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ananya Raihan, Antonio Ramírez, Juan-Carlos Revilla, Alberto Riesco-Sanz, Nabiyla Risfa Izzati, Nagla Rizk, Moisés K. Rojas Ramos, Cheryll Ruth Soriano, André Sobczak, Kristin Thompson, Kiko Tovar, Pitso Tsibolane, Wing Yin Anna Tsui, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Jonas Valente, Jean-Paul Van Belle, Giulia Varaschin, Eduardo Vargas, Daniel Vizuete, Laura Vogel, Jing Wang, Robbie Warin, Nadine Weheba a Najlae Zhani. Wirawan Agahari, Sami Atallah, Ladin Bayurgil, Maren Borkert,Joe Buckley, Maria Catherine, Hussein Cheaito, Ana Chkareuli, Adriansyah Dhani Darmawan, Ha Do, James Dunn-Willimason, Khatia Dzamukashvili, Trevilliana Eka Putri, Patrick Feuerstein, Roseli Figaro, Milena Franke, Sandra Fredman, Jackeline Gameleira, Teona Henderson, Luis Jorge Hernández Flores, Victor Manuel Hernandez Lopez, Benjamin Herr, Nur Huda, Huynh Thi Ngoc Tuyet, Amelinda Pandu Kusumaningtyas, Wassim Maktabi, Melissa Malala, Hilda Mwakatumbula, Beka Natsvlishvili, Mounika Neerukonda, Ana Negro, Chau Nguyen Thi Minh, Sidra Nizambuddin, Thando Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa, Claudia Nociolini Rebechi, Anesthesia H. Novianda, Nermin Oruc, Christian Nedu Osakwe, Balaji Parthasarathy, Francesca Pasqualone, Obed Penu, Lucero Pinedo Huerta, Julice Salvagni, Derly Yohanna Sánchez Vargas, Maricarmen Sequera, Murali Shanmugavelan, Ruth Tarullyna Simanjuntak, Shanza Sohail, Janaki Srinivasan, Anna Sting, Zuly Bibiana Suárez Morales, David Sutcliffe, Dinh Thi Chien and Jami Zoughaib.

Editing: Pablo Aguera Reneseses, Navneet Gidda, and David Sutcliffe

Please cite as: Fairwork (2022) Fairwork Annual Report 2022. Oxford, United Kingdom; Berlin, Germany.

Please note that this report contains sections in common with other Fairwork reports, notably the Fairwork Framework, parts of the Impact and Next Steps section and the Appendix.

Designers: Laura Whitehouse and One Ltd.

Funders: The Fairwork Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC), The Economic and Social Research Council through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF, grant number ES/S00081X/1), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Ford Foundation, The John Fell Fund, The Minderoo-Oxford Challenge Fund in AI Governance, the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), and the International Development Research Centre’s Future of Work in the Global South initiative (FoWIGS).

Special thanks to: Vicki Nash, Jo Barlow, Katia Padvalkava, Duncan Passey, Maisy Gills, Sara Spinks, Lucy Hennings, John Gilbert, Ornella Sciuto, Caroline Hampshire, and David Sutcliffe at the University of Oxford and Ursula Noack, Samantha Gupta, Eileen Jahnke and other colleagues at the WZB for their extensive administrative support for the project since its inception. The project team is deeply grateful to Shakhlo Kakharova, Lukas Sonnenberg, and Kirsten Schuettler at GIZ for their continuing support and guidance as we take our work to the next stage. We would like to thank the University of Oxford’s Business Engagement and Partnerships Development Fund for supporting some of our workshops and outreach activities. Finally, we would like to acknowledge a large number of workers as well as platform managers across the world for taking the time to help us build our platform ratings. Their roles are understated by a simple acknowledgement. All of the work in this project was shared not just amongst our research team, but also amongst the stakeholders who our ratings ultimately affect.

Conflict of interest statement: None of the researchers have any connection with any of the platforms and the work undertaken received no funding or support in kind from any platform or any other company, and we declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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