Re-wiring India’s digitalizing economy for women’s rights and well-being – An action-oriented knowledge intervention – Puddukotai,Tamilnadu, programme funded by EUROPEAN UNION

Date- 4^th-8^th December, 2024

Visual Documentation & Report by Taniya Sarkar

A knowledge network focused on the creation, testing, and improvement of novel digital platform models for advancing the economic empowerment pathways of marginalized women farmers and women micro workers in India is being brought together by IT for Change between April 2021 and June 2024 with funding from the European Union.

This initiative has three knowledge partners: the women’s cooperative federation Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), and the social enterprises LabourNet and Vrutti.

Vrutti works with over 130,000 small farm households in India to establish prosperous, sustainable agriculture enterprises. The organization attempts to accomplish these three main goals by working with social enterprises and worker cooperatives to help them create and refine scalable platform models in agriculture and service work to empower women workers, developing techno-institutional design principles for platform models that can enhance the economic rights and well-being of women workers in the informal sector in the platform economy, establishing inclusive platform models as a solid foundation for implementing comprehensive policy measures at the intersection of gender and the future of work.