#Tech4Worse: The problem with digital labour initiatives for the Middle East
(WorldNews Africa)

Contrary to their marketing, digital labor schemes don´t work in spite of predicaments like the occupation or the refugee crisis - they work because of them. Graffiti on the separation wall in the West Bank, Palestine. Photo by Wall in Palestine. Flickr.com (CC BY-SA 2.0) Some rights reserved. `Be yOuR OwN BosS.` Two twenty-something Palestinians are pictured leaning over an iPad and laughing: a ColourSplashTM filter makes their eyes and frayed festival wristbands glow a radioactive green. Their suits are whatever they put on that morning and their offices are wherever they turned their screens on. On a Facebook group for online freelancing work in Gaza and the West Bank, these mantras come...