Tag: connectivity
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Knowledge Equity and Spatial Justice on Wikipedia
30 July 2018
Author:Last week, 600 Wikipedians met in Cape Town for Wikimania 2018, the annual global gathering of the Wikipedia community. The keynote speaker on the first day was OII digital ...
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Digital Control in Value Chains: Challenges of Connectivity for East African Firms
18 December 2017
Author:I’m happy to report on a new co-authored paper that I have out. The piece asks what difference changing connectivity has made for East African firms. The piece emerges from ...
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New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
15 March 2017
Author: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 ...
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Are mobile phones transforming Africa?
14 December 2016
Author:The latest version of the Economist contains a boldly-titled piece: ‘Mobile phones are transforming Africa‘. The general sense in the piece is that, where connectivity exists, mobile phones and ...
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Are mobile phones transforming Africa?
14 December 2016
Author:The latest version of the Economist contains a boldly-titled piece: ‘Mobile phones are transforming Africa‘. The general sense in the piece is that, where connectivity exists, mobile phones and ...
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The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development
20 October 2016
Author:My colleagues Nicolas Friederici, Sanna Ojanperä, and I have recently finished a paper in which we analyse ‘Grand Visions’ of how Internet connectivity affects development in Africa. In the paper, we ...
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Digital Transformations of Work
28 January 2016
Author:The conference will explore issues such as the degree to which information technology is transforming capitalism and opening up new means of exploitation, whether the traditional regulation of working ...
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New publication: Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection’
22 December 2015
Author:Ralph Straumann and I have a new short publication out: Straumann, R. K., Graham, M. 2016. Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection.’ Regional Studies, Regional Science. 3(1) ...
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Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”
10 November 2015
Author: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 ...
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Connectivity & entrepreneurship discourse: new CfP for AAG 2016 in San Francisco
29 September 2015
Author:Two of us just put out a last-minute CfP for next year’s AAG. This ties into our GeoNet work (especially under the Innovation Hubs pillar) and in my dissertation work. Please ...
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Here’s why visions of ubiquitous connectivity aren’t going to be realised any time soon
28 September 2015
Author:The last few months have seen a wealth of stories about visions to connect the world. Facebook, Google, large international organisations, states, and even Bono, dream of a world ...
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The Archipelago of Disconnection
22 July 2015
Author:Ralph Straumann
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 ...
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Changing Internet Access
14 July 2015
Author:Ralph Straumann
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 ...
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The World Online
8 July 2015
Author:Ralph Straumann
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 ...
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The Geographies of Science
1 July 2015
Author:Description This graph illustrates the number of journal articles produced around the world. Data The data used in this graph are from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, which “provides ...
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Measuring the Impacts of Connectivity
18 June 2015
Author:Huge resources are invested into plans and projects that are designed to connect some of the billions of people who still lack any sort of digital connectivity. Yet, it is surprising ...
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Thinking about Market Information Systems…
15 May 2015
Author:Chris Foster
As part of the ICTD2015 conference I presented in the open session ‘Thinking about Market Information Systems: Bridging Theory and Practice” organised by Elisa Oreglia, Janaki Srinivasan and Susan ...
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New paper: “The Domestic Turn: Business Processing Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations”
10 May 2015
Author:I’m happy to announce a new paper to come out of our previous project studying Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa. The project was a collaboration between myself, ...
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Internet Connectivity in East Africa – Reports
2 March 2015
Author:Chris Foster
Over the past four years we have been working on a project to explore the impacts of changing internet connectivity in East Africa. In particular, we have focussed on ...
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New paper published: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector’
22 January 2015
Author:I am very happy to announce a new paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector.’ A pre-print is available below. Graham, M. 2015. Contradictory Connectivity: ...
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