Tag: economic geography
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Will AI kill development?
7 April 2019
Author: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 ...
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New article – The Global Gig Economy: Towards a Planetary Labour Market?
7 April 2019
Author:Amir Anwar and I have a new article out in First Monday. The piece think through what a planetary labour market entails, how it is relationally, spatially, and discursively ...
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Darknet markets: global platforms used for local retail trade
16 April 2018
Author:Martin Dittus, Joss Wright, and Mark Graham have published a new paper and dataset on the economic geography of darknet marketplaces. Does recent growth of darknet markets signify a slow ...
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A distributed resilience among darknet markets?
9 November 2017
Author:You may have seen the news earlier this year that two large darknet marketplaces, Alphabay and Hansa, have been taken down by international law enforcement. Particularly interesting about these ...
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CfP for sessions at GCEG: Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins
17 October 2017
Author:We will attend next year’s Global Conference of Economic Geography (GCEG) in full strength, running two hopefully lively sessions. Both run under the larger theme “Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, ...
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CfP sessions at GCEG: Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins
17 October 2017
Author:The Geonet team will attend next year’s Global Conference of Economic Geography (GCEG) in full strength, running two hopefully lively sessions. Both run under the larger theme “Digital Economies, ...
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Introducing Martin Dittus, Data Scientist and Darknet Researcher
13 September 2017
Authors:We’re sitting upstairs, hunched over a computer, and Martin is showing me the darknet. I guess I have as good an idea as most people what the darknet is, ...
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Exploring the Darknet in Five Easy Questions
12 September 2017
Authors:Darknet marketplaces are typically set up to engage in the trading of illicit products and services, and are considered criminal in most jurisdictions. Image: Dennis Yip (Flickr). Many people ...
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Africa’s Digital (R)Evolution: An Enterprise Perspective
2 June 2017
Author:Kytabu’s colorful Nairobi office: the startup needed several years until it could afford such a space Digital entrepreneurship is on the rise across Africa. There is no question that ...
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Dissertation: African Hubs as Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs
5 May 2017
Author:Good news: my dissertation on African technology innovation hubs is now complete! The digital record is here, and the hardbound copy will shortly be deposited with Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries ...
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Digital gig work and outsourcing in Africa- Update on Geonet
27 February 2017
Author: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 ...
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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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Video of ‘Digital Economies’ Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography
8 October 2015
Author:I recently had the opportunity to give a plenary talk at the Global Conference on Economic Geography. The talk was part of a broader session on digital economies that Matthew ...
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Digital Economies: Video of Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography
8 October 2015
Author:I recently had the opportunity to give a plenary talk at the Global Conference on Economic Geography. The talk was part of a broader session on digital economies that Matthew ...
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Uneven Geographies of Digital Wages
9 June 2015
Author: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 ...
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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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Harare’s Hubs: Excitement, Experimentation, and Many Open Questions
5 January 2015
Author:During the interviews I conducted in Zimbabwe last October, many participants asked me: “Why pick Harare as a case study? Why not Nairobi or Lagos?” Indeed, Harare’s “ecosystem” is ...
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Digital Labour and Development
22 October 2014
Author:The picture above was taken in Pasig City in the Philippines. The poster advertising free wifi is symbolic of the changing connectivities of a country in which more than 30 million people are now ...
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Final Project Report: Promises of Fibre-Optic Broadband in the Kenyan Tourism and Tea Sectors
27 July 2014
Author:My colleagues Professor Timothy Waema and Charles Katua at the University of Nairobi have recently finished a report describing and summarising some of their research into the effects of ...
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Call for Papers – Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Margins
18 July 2014
Author:Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Margins AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25, 2015 (sponsored by the Development Geography Research Group) Organisers: Mark Graham and Chris ...
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