Balaji Parthasarathy is Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, and a co-founder of the Institute’s Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy. His interests are rooted in economic geography and economic sociology, and explore the relationship between technological change and innovation, economic globalization, and social transformation, especially in underprivileged contexts. His publications have spanned the organisation of production in the global software industry, to the political economy of e-governance, e-waste and social innovation. As the principal investigator of Fairwork India, his current research examines the opportunities and constraints afforded by gig work in the digital platform economy.