Moizza Salahuddin

Moizza Salahuddin

Class of 2018
BSc (Honors) Social Development & Policy

Core Skills

  • Ethnography
  • Cross-cultural Communication Skills
  • Academic Research, Academic Writing
  • Critical Thinking
  • Microsoft Office
  • Workshops
  • Research Design
  • Qualitative Research
  • Community Engagement
  • User Experience (UX)
  • Public Relations

Academic Awards / Achievements

  • Stanford Summer International Honor's Program, June 2016 - Aug 2016
  • United States Undergraduate Exchange Program, Jan 2017 - May 2017
  • President’s List, Fall 2016

Experience

Leadership / Meta-curricular

  • Chair, Society for Sustainability, Nov 2014 - Aug 2017

Internship / Volunteer Work

  • Intern, Monitoring, Evaluations, and Research, Jhpiego- A Johns Hopkins Affiliate, June 2017 - Aug 2017
  • Research Intern, Urban Resource Centre, July 2015 - Aug 2015

Final Year Project

Project Title

Sharing Economy Disrupted: Studying the (Un)doing of Platforms in Karachi’s Urban Political Economy

Description

With much literature focusing on the emergence of the sharing economy in the global north, this thesis is an attempt to understand the development of two platforms – Uber and Careem – in a previously understudied economy of the global south, Karachi. Through qualitative interviews with various stakeholders, Uber and Careem providers, vendors, and riders, the essential questions of income, access, and power are brought to light. Research findings indicate an assimilation, as opposed to disruption, of conventional business models, suggestive of the contextual distinctiveness of Karachi’s political economy and society. Results indicate that in Pakistan, unlike the global north, the underlying characteristics of Industry 4.0 are reversed as Uber/Careem map on to the model of prevailing capitalism. The research is significant in outlining the vast implications for future forms of exchange and livelihoods in Pakistan as they are altered by the urban political economy and its overarching determining ability.

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