Oxford Internet Institute

11 July 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online Labour Index top occupation by country, 1-6 July 2017 The Internet has created a global market for digitally delivered freelance work, which is currently growing rapidly. Our new ... Read More Where are online workers located? The international division of digital gig work

11 July 2017

Authors: Otto Kassi

As more and more tasks and projects are transacted via online platforms and apps, national governments and statistical agencies face increasing challenges in tracking the growth of this phenomenon. ... Read More Measuring the supply of digital labour: How the OLI worker supplement is constructed

10 July 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online Labour Index, July 2016 – June 2017 (28-day moving average) Online freelancing and crowdwork are some of the terms used for temporary and project-based work conducted remotely over ... Read More The online gig economy grew 26% over the past year

29 June 2017

Authors: Otto Kassi

We are happy to announce that the Online Labour Index won the first prize in an annual OxTALENT competition organised by the University of Oxford IT services in the ... Read More Online Labour Index wins in a University data visualisation competition

13 February 2017

Authors: Alex Wood

Millions of people across the planet use online labour platforms to make their living as part of the global gig or platform economy. One part of the iLabour project ... Read More Variable geographies of protest among online gig workers

27 October 2016

Authors: Otto Kassi

Our colleagues over at the Geonet project have drawn some wonderful maps based on our Online Labour Index country data. The open vacancies are plotted in the figure below. As ... Read More Mapping the demand for online labour

21 September 2016

Authors: Otto Kassi

The Online Labour Index  is an index measuring the changes in the volume of projects transacted in major online platforms. As a part of OLI, we also report a breakdown ... Read More How is online work classified in the OLI?

20 September 2016

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online Labour Index, May-September 2016 (28-day moving average) Employers and workers are increasingly using online platforms to engage in project- or task-based freelance work delivered over the Internet. This ... Read More Is the online gig economy growing?

19 September 2016

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

The Online Labour Index (OLI) is a new economic indicator that provides an online labour market equivalent of conventional labour market statistics. It is available online as an interactive visualization ... Read More Which countries and occupations are embracing the online gig economy?

12 January 2013

Authors: Scott A. Hale

I recently had the pleasure of building my first interactive map visualization using Leaflet with Joshua R. Melville and the Floatingsheep team, who have written more about the methodology. ... Read More Interactive map of Twitter mentions in geotagged tweets

5 November 2012

Authors: Scott A. Hale

Update: 6 November 2012 – US map featured in the Guardian. I’ve not blogged for a while on this site, because I’ve been doing lots of blogging on the ... Read More Interactive Maps