Tag: connectivity

18 December 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Digital Control in Value Chains: Challenges of Connectivity for East African Firms

15 March 2017

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

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 ...
Read More New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

14 December 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Are mobile phones transforming Africa?

14 December 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Are mobile phones transforming Africa?

20 October 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development

28 January 2016

Authors: Alex Wood

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 ...
Read More Digital Transformations of Work

22 December 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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) ...
Read More New publication: Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection’

10 November 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”

29 September 2015

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

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 ...
Read More Connectivity & entrepreneurship discourse: new CfP for AAG 2016 in San Francisco

28 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Here’s why visions of ubiquitous connectivity aren’t going to be realised any time soon

22 July 2015

Authors: 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 ...
Read More The Archipelago of Disconnection

14 July 2015

Authors: 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 ...
Read More Changing Internet Access

8 July 2015

Authors: 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 ...
Read More The World Online

1 July 2015

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

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 ...
Read More The Geographies of Science

18 June 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Measuring the Impacts of Connectivity

15 May 2015

Authors: 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 ...
Read More Thinking about Market Information Systems…

10 May 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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, ...
Read More New paper: “The Domestic Turn: Business Processing Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations”

2 March 2015

Authors: 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 ...
Read More Internet Connectivity in East Africa – Reports

22 January 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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: ...
Read More New paper published: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector’