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Uneven Geographies of Digital Wages
Dollar Inflow and Median Wage by Country Our previous post contained a few maps that shed light on the geographies of online work. But what we didn’t do there was explore the spatial variance of wages....
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The World Online
Internet Population cartogram (click for larger version) Description This map shows the total number of Internet users in a country (size of the country) as well as the percentage of the population...
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Changing Internet Access
The Importance of Being Connected The Internet is ever more important to contemporary economic, social, and political activity. Thus, it is important to map who and where is (and isn’t) connected and...
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The Archipelago of Disconnection
The archipelago of disconnection (click for larger version) The two previous blog posts in this small series discussed Internet population and growing Internet access worldwide. In this post we turn...
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“Virtual products aren’t built with virtual work”: a comment piece about...
SciDevNet has just published some of my preliminary thoughts about digital labour in development. The argument being that just because digital work is international, doesn’t mean it operates outside of...
View Article“E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and...
I’m delighted to be giving a Kapuściński Development Lecture on Nov 9. The talk will be titled ‘E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development’ You can sign up...
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Kapuścinski Public Lecture –“Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in...
I recently had the opportunity to give a Kapuścinski public lecture titled “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era.” You can watch the whole lecture at the link above. For...
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Hubs vs. Incubators: What Are the Pain Points for Impact and Efficiency?
With tech entrepreneurship on the rise across Africa, efforts to support the agenda are evolving and diversifying. There has been quite a bit of debate—sometimes of the heated kind—about whether...
View Article‘big data’ and development seminar series
All are invited to our new ‘big data’ and development seminar series. The schedule for the coming term is, as follows: 26 January 2016: “Big Data, Data Activism, and the Global Civil Society” Speaker:...
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Digital Transformations of Work [Conference, March 10 2016]
As part of the Green Templeton College Future of Work Programme we are bringing together leading researchers to consider the ways in which digitalisation and the internet are globally transforming...
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New book drawing on fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa
I’m delighted to announce the release of a new book that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca Twyman: ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development.’ The book draws on our experiences of doing...
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Sample chapters available from new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development’
The publisher has kindly allowed us to freely share three chapters of our new book (that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca Twyman): ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development.‘ The book...
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Incubators vs. Hubs at the Example of Accra
Use of the term “hub” has certainly been inflationary in discussions about innovation and entrepreneurship support. I believe that innovation hubs are a genuinely new (and exciting!) organizational...
View ArticleJoin our team: we’re hiring a Data Scientist / Data Hacker
Data Scientist/Data Hacker Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford Grade 7: £31,076 – £38,183 p.a. The Oxford Internet Institute is a leading centre for research into individual, collective and...
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Digital gig work and outsourcing in Africa- Update on Geonet
This is a short post about the research that I lead into digital work and the digital economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The work that I do (in tandem with my Geonet colleagues) specifically looks at the...
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New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of...
We have a new publication out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., Straumann, R. K., De Sabbata, S., & Zook, M. (2017). Engagement in the knowledge economy: Regional patterns of content creation with a focus...
View ArticleGeonet Research Presentation at the UNI Africa’s 4th Regional Conference-...
The trade union leaders from across the African continent are coming together to meet in Dakar, Senegal for 4th UNI Africa Regional Conference on March 23-25, 2017. This will be a gathering of 161...
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Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers
It has almost been a year since I finished the final draft of my dissertation about African innovation hubs. In the meantime, a number of publications have come out about hubs in Africa and elsewhere,...
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Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: announcing our upcoming book
If we’ve been quiet about our Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa research, it’s because Michel, Mark, and I have been busy drafting chapters for an upcoming monograph. In the book, we use our empirical...
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Will AI kill development?
I had the opportunity to contribute to this new BCC World Service programme ‘Will AI kill development?’. Listen here, or contact me for an mp3 if you’re unable to access it. Summary Ian Goldin asks if...
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