Arbeidsmarketresearch UvA BV (ARR) is affiliated with the Labour Law department of the University of Amsterdam and was founded in 2010 by Professor Evert Verhulp. ARR develops digital, legal knowledge systems in the field of labour law. Its main goal is to make the law more accessible and give users insight into their legal position.

Since the inception of the CoLab for eInclusion and Social Innovation at the University of the Western Cape (2009) and the establishment of the partnership with national government, it regarded its role as providing research-based thought leadership in terms of the national and provincial discourse and action agenda towards equitable digital inclusion and competitiveness in the digital economy.

To this end, the CoLab participated in national and especially provincial processes to further the digital skills agenda and to develop research outputs, learning content and products for the benefit of the national network of CoLabs and in support of the national digital skills agenda.

Over the past 6 years the CoLab has actively developed its ecosystem of entrepreneurial digital inclusion intermediaries all over the province. The CoLab has invested in the development of this network of trusted delivery partners in order to build our capacity to more sustainable scale our interventions.

The most important role fulfilled by the CoLab is that of catalyst and change agent role, engaging with various stakeholders to elicit support for the human capital development (digital skills) interventions that will contribute towards a digitally inclusive and sustainable society.

There are now tens of millions of digital platform workers that live all over the world, doing work that is outsourced via platforms or apps.

Platform work provides essential income and opportunities to many. However, lacking protection from employment law or collective bodies, many platform workers face low pay, precarity, and poor and dangerous working conditions.

Fairwork is committed to highlighting best and worst practices in the emerging platform economy. We have brought together platforms, workers, trade unions, regulators, and academics to set global principles for fair work in the platform economy. Those principles have been revised in a series of tripartite workshops in South Africa, India, and Germany. Using those principles, we give every platform a ‘fairness’ score.

Fairwork draws on the expertise of staff at the Universities of Oxford, Cape Town, Manchester, and the Western Cape in work practices and working conditions on digital labour platforms. Project staff work to translate our principles into measurable thresholds, conduct rigorous research to evaluate platforms against those thresholds, and publish our results in a transparent manner.

The Hugo Sinzheimer Institute for Labour and Social Security Law (HSI) is a research institute of the Hans Böckler Foundation based in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). In the spirit of Sinzheimer, the HSI cultivates an understanding of labour and social security law research that integrates different aspects and includes sociological, legal policy, international and comparative law elements. International law plays a special role, especially the Europeanisation of labour law.

The Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism -as it was originally called- was established in 1978 by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), and affiliated with the International Association of Legal Science (IALS), on the initiative of professor G. van den Steenhoven, of the Institute of Folk Law, Nijmegen University, the Netherlands.

The Law and Development research group studies whether and how law can enhance human dignity and global justice, in particular for those adversely affected by economic and other forms of globalization. This question is addressed through the prism of both structural inequality between states in North and South (‘developed’ versus ‘developing’ states), and within states.

Leiden Law School is one of Leiden University’s seven faculties. Its research is not limited to one single spearhead; rahter, it strives to conduct cutting-edge research across the full breadth of the law.

The Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is Nigeria’s apex Institution for research and advanced studies in law. It was a brainchild of the legal academic community established in March 1979. One of the main ideas in founding the Institute was to establish it as the centre for advanced legal research for all the Nigerian universities with Faculties of Law, so that all postgraduate work could be undertaken there under the joint auspices of the most experienced and learned academic lawyers available in the country, whether indigenous or foreign.

The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) aims to bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the globe to advance the understanding and protection of human rights and equality. Through the vigorous exchange of ideas and resources, we strive to facilitate a better understanding of human rights principles, to develop new approaches to policy, and to influence the development of human rights law and practice.