Digitalisation is reshaping markets, agriculture, finance, and public services. For informal women workers, these shifts often deepen exclusion—through data capture, opaque platforms, and systems designed without their realities in mind. When digital tools are introduced without ownership and safeguards, women lose agency rather than gain it.
Our digital work feeds directly into cooperative strengthening, market engagement, and policy conversation on data rights, agricultural platforms, and digital public infrastructure—rooted in the lived realities of informal women workers.
Read our research on building worker-owned data cooperatives.
SEWA Cooperative Federation works towards worker-centred digitalisation, where digital tools strengthen cooperatives instead of overriding them. Our focus is on slow, grounded adoption—ensuring that technology responds to cooperative structures, frontline labour, and women’s leadership rather than imposing logics.
