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Algorithmic systems must include worker voice, argues Christina Colclough in this guest blog

  • Christina Colclough
  • 8 March 2021

By excluding the staff reps and shop stewards, and therefore the voice of workers, from audits and impact assessments, companies risk approving potentially highly discriminative algorithmic systems.

Across the world, a new wave of audits and/or impact assessments for digital technologies are popping up. None include workers in the process. This must change, argues this blog.

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