| Title | 2. Enabling and resisting the platform economy from below: |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Platform immigrant workers in Ecuador |
| Contributor | Henry Chávez (author) |
| María Belén Albornoz(author) | |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/technoscientific-globalisation-from-below |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Henry Chávez and María Belén Albornoz |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Published on | 2025-09-08 |
| Page range | pp. 57–80 |
| Print length | 24 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 2 illustrations |
Henry Chávez is an associate researcher at CEPED (Université Paris Cité), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and CTS Lab FLACSO Ecuador. He holds a PhD in social sciences from the École de hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and has an interdisciplinary background in social sciences, economics, politics, and data science. He has worked as a researcher and consultant in the public and private sectors, as well as in social organisations, NGOs, and international agencies. His work focuses on socioeconomic cycles, techno-economic transformations, social studies of science and technology (STS), big data artificial intelligence, and platform economics.
María Belén Albornoz is a professor and researcher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador). She is the principal investigator of the Fairwork Project in Ecuador. Her current research concerns technology transfer models; public policy of science, technology, and innovation; big data; ICTs in education; social innovation; and fairwork. In 2017 she was a Fulbright Scholar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Visiting Scholar at Aalborg University in Denmark, where she worked on theorising imaginaries of innova- tion and policy network analysis.