Background
Digital Platform Employment (DPE) is transforming the world of work – creating new economic and job opportunities, enabling flexible income generation, and reshaping labour market structures globally. For businesses, the platform economy can drive economic efficiency, open new markets and create opportunities to broaden their client reach. However, as this segment of work expands, it raises concerns around job visibility, income stability and access to existing employment and social protection frameworks for the growing number of platform workers. This requires action to understand the digital platform economy and steer it, not just to achieve its potential but to also protect those working within it.
However, DPE remains under-measured and inconsistently defined globally despite its scale. The lack of robust and consistent data makes it difficult to assess the true prevalence and impact of platform work. Urgent attention is needed to establish robust, trusted and harmonised measurement standards that set the foundation for evidence-based policy making, balance innovation with protection, and promote international comparability.
The Global Dialogue on Digital Platform Work, hosted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and Ministry of Manpower (MOM) Singapore’s Manpower Research and Statistics Department (MRSD), brings together various stakeholders, including international delegates, policymakers, statisticians, employers’ and workers’ representatives, platform operators, and researchers. They will engage in thought-provoking discussions on the latest developments in the digital platform economy and the need to develop harmonized and future-ready measurements that reflect the realities of DPE across countries. Through cross-border dialogue, knowledge exchange and multilateral cooperation, this conference aims to support the creation of international measurement standards that support effective analysis, promote decent work and enable the platform economy to thrive.
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