The Call for Papers for the ninth conference of the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-9) is now open!
INDL-9 will take place between 9 and 11 September 2026 and will be hosted by the International Labour Organization in beautiful Geneva, Switzerland.
INDL conferences provide a unique opportunity to share knowledge and new perspectives in research and practice related to digital labor.
The topic of this year, “AI Supply Chains,” has the ambition to build an interdisciplinary research agenda on AI and work. Submissions are particularly encouraged in the following thematic areas:
• Transparency and traceability in the AI models and their supply chains
• Working conditions, occupational safety and health of workers in the human-in-the-loop
• Best practices for ethical AI procurement and corporate social responsibility in data labelling
• Role of social dialogue in governing AI-mediated work
• Organisational, legal and financial perspectives on the rate of investment of ethical AI and challenges of regulatory compliance (eg., the EU AI Act)
• New frameworks for a “human-centric” AI supply chain
• Ecological impacts and environment sustainability of AI infrastructures
Proposals are also invited in topic areas that previously garnered substantial interest from conference presenters:
• Algorithmic management, labor control, and workers’ resistance
• Platform cooperativism and alternative business models
• Legal frameworks, regulatory initiatives, and institutional responses to platform labor
• Gender and digital labor
This edition of the INDL-9 conference is organised through a collaborative partnership between the ILO (International Labour Organization), the TASC Platform of the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Centre for Trade and Economic Integration, DiPLab (Digital Platform Labor), ACM SIGCAS (the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computers and Society), and Yale University.
Abstracts can be submitted on or before 7 May 2026 here.
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