I am an Experienced Environmental Engineer having worked on Environmental and Social Impact Assessments for the past 15 plus years in various transaction contexts from Oil refinery at Duqm to Oman’s National Reuse Master Plan to Oman’s first RAP. I have also worked on policy projects in Singapore and Malaysia including government and UN work. The frontier of Human Rights Impact Assessment and its relationship with technology is a deep intellectual interest which I explored in my research work at the National University of Singapore and with an USAID program in Malaysia in the recent years.
Algorithms are shaping the relationship between workers and the principal employer in ways which are not anticipated in terms of reference which were formed a generation back. In this paper accepted at International Association of Impact Assessment Conference 2025, in a panel on Human Rights Impact Assessment and the Technology Sector I will share my ideas on how social licence to operate be conceptualised in the platform work space, as the sight of the ubiquitous platform worker is the buzz of the urban.
This is my fifth paper acceptance to IAIA in a row. This is a significant development as impact assessment is a fast moving process with a multitude of contexts. This is a sociotechnical process with many moving parts from scientific innovation to geopolitics impacting how risks as assessed for resilience in particular new areas such as the platform sector.
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