Fair Digital Kazi Manifesto
Across Africa, digital technologies are reshaping the nature of work. From ride-hailing and delivery services to cloud work, content moderation, and data labelling, millions of Africans now earn a living through digital platforms. The digital ecosystem, as it currently stands, disregards the lived experiences of workers, instead serving the relentless pursuit of profit, data extraction in the name of “market interests.” In addition, contrary to the beliefs often sold to us regarding digital spaces being “democratic,” or “inherently progressive” by virtue of the things they enable, such as connection and innovation, digital spaces are entrenched in and sometimes even worsen the inequalities we face “offline not limited to low and unpredictable wages, algorithmic exploitation, weak and nonexistent legal protections, and a lack of social security. Workers, especially women and other historically marginalised groups in the platform economy, face unique vulnerabilities that are often overlooked in national and regional labour policy frameworks.