[Air-L] incentives

[Nishant Shah]

This is a good question, and in a recent longitudinal study where we wanted
to honor the participants with a 30 Euro equivalent, we were stuck with
this problem. A lot of the big-tech exploitative services that we have
taken for granted in this part of Europe, were either not available or
ethically not acceptable to our 30+ participants.
We then realised that we do not have to dictate where the participants
spend their honorarium.
We created a simple poll. We asked each participant to choose the giftcard
that they would prefer, and hey, it took some extra work, but we did it. It
was amazing that so many of them actually chose to give the gift to
charities in their names, and a couple of them even re-gifted them to their
students or research assistants who had helped with the process. One of
them asked for their mobile phone to have an addon. One of them even got a
subscription for flowers. Let the persons decide instead of tying them to a
platform.
It was more work, but I had an amazingly caring team that was making sure
that we do this extra work in a way that feels fair to everybody.
Hope this helps.
Warmly,
Nishant

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 9:22 AM Helen Kennedy <h.kennedy at sheffield.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Please folks, not Amazon gift cards. I'm hoping I don't have to explain why
> here.
>
> Let's find ways to support independent, tax-paying businesses with the
> incentives we use in our research.
>
> Helen
>
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 08:09, <elanor at inventati.org> wrote:
>
> > If it is market research, I can tell you that in Italy (and other
> European
> > countries) is illegal to pay people by cash.
> > So, Amazon card is a good idea. I think you can ask them to differentiate
> > the card by country.
> >
> > You should check out the list of gifts on the website of Toluna or
> Dynata.
> > You can get an idea of what they offer in the different countries.
> > I hope this helps,
> > Elanor
> >
> >
> > -----Messaggio originale-----
> > Da: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> Per conto di Lauri Goldkind
> > Inviato: martedì 23 marzo 2021 00:58
> > A: AoIR mailing list <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> > Oggetto: [Air-L] incentives
> >
> > Hello Researchers,
> >
> > I was wondering how people handle offereing a gift card incentive when a
> > project is global in scope?
> > We are planning on offering a $50 USD gift card but then I realized that
> > one
> > cannot use a US amazon or staples card outside of the US (yes,
> elementary,
> > I
> > realize).
> >
> > I wonder if any of you have offered a cash or cash-like incentive and how
> > you distributed it to out-of-country participants.
> >
> > Thoughts appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Lauri
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-- 
Dr. Nishant Shah (Ph.D.)
Professor, Aesthetics & Cultures of Technology, Director Research
ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands.
Knowledge Partner, Digital Earth Project, Hivos
Mentor, Feminist Internet Research Network, APC
https://nishantshah.online