Daily updates on what I’m reading. Links with my notes. I also just tweet links and things that interest me @dina
- Shedding light on the invisible workforce – livemint.com | Indian women contribute more than the official 23% in GDP – CLIP: Women officially contribute 23% of India’s gross domestic product. But their actual contribution is much larger, and goes unnoticed, says the ILO study authored by G. Raveendran, former additional director general of Central Statistical Organisation and consultant to the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector. Traditional occupations such as sewing, embroidering and even grinding and de-husking of rice—defined as economic activities by the United Nations System of National Accounts—do not figure in official records, it adds. The work of nearly 85 million women is not counted, and the incorrect data hobbles policy decisions, says Raveendran.
- Ethnography in Industry: Objectives? | UX Magazine – CLIP: “Ethnography adapted for industry. In today’s hard-nosed and often economically trying times, ethnography can be seen as a tactical weapon enabling companies to gather new insights and thus gain advantage over their competition.Traditional ethnographic studies were conducted at a relatively leisurely pace ……….. Out of the academic Garden of Eden, modern ethnographers have been driven to move and produce compelling results faster, while operating within a number of budgetary constraints and oft-conflicting business demands. Ethnographers’ data collection and analysis methods have therefore been condensed, recombined, adapted—both systematically and as-needed—to meet these business demands.”
