Educational platforms and ecosystems in digital economy

Rules for Electronic Platforms: the role of platforms and intermediaries in digital economy A Case for Harmonization

UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce successfully addressed and effectively tackled the challenges posed by the use of electronic communications in the formation and the performance of contracts. These are essentially ‘transaction-oriented’ rules and represent the first generation of e-commerce law. The accelerated evolution of digital economy has shown that technology is not only transforming...

WP 11: Bridging Digital Ecosystems Research to Regional Development and Innovation in the Knowledge Economy

Communities in the Digital Economy: Concepts, Models and Platforms - Minitrack Introduction

Community building and development are a key success factor in the digital economy. They differentiate business models in the digital economy from traditional one’s. Examples of these communities are Internet shops, portal sites, groupware systems, electronic auctions, billboards, enterprises or organizations. Product-centered communities as well as communities of interest are relevant for elec...

Digital Ecosystems

We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems, which are considered to be robust, self-organising and scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex, dynamic problems. So, this work is concerned with the creation, investigation, and optimisation of Digital Ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems. First, we ...

Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods

As ever more policy-makers, governments and organisations turn to the gig economy and digital labour as an economic development strategy to bring jobs to places that need them, it becomes important to understand better how this might influence the livelihoods of workers. Drawing on a multi-year study with digital workers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-east Asia, this article highlights four ke...