Tag: geonet
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Does economic upgrading lead to social upgrading in contact centers? Evidence from South Africa
17 April 2019
Author:Mark Graham and I have just published a new article in the African Geographical Review. The article’s main argument is that economic upgrading in the South African BPO industry ...
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Digital Economies at Global Margins
24 January 2019
Author:I am happy to announce that my new edited book ‘Digital Economies at Global Margins‘ is now out! It was a pleasure working with so many brilliant thinkers and ...
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The rise of the planetary labour market
30 January 2018
Author:I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it because this will be the ...
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Labour oversupply in the platform economy
22 December 2017
Author:When I give talks about issues that arise in the context of a global market for digital work, one of the most important things that comes up is the ...
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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. Foster, C., ...
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The shape of work to come
19 October 2017
Author:Nature just published a published a long article about the ‘three ways that the digital revolution is reshaping workforces around the world.’ Amir Anwar and I were interviewed for ...
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Mapping internet users
10 July 2017
Author:We have a new visualisation posted over on the Geonet blog depicting the geography of internet access. Head over there for the full post and some interesting summary stats.
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Towards a Fairer Gig Economy
10 July 2017
Author:Our second pamphlet ‘Towards a Fairer Gig Economy’ is now out on Meatspace Press. We are pleased to offer it for free download (pdf, epub, azw3, mobi), as a ...
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Minimum wages on online labour platforms
15 June 2017
Author:A response to the ETUI and IG Metall’s request for comment. Download the PDF at: Wood, A., Graham, M., Anwar, M. A., Ramizo, G. 2017. Minimum wages on online ...
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Want to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute? I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!
5 May 2017
Author:I am hiring a Digital Geographer to work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute for two years on a full-time contract (we’ll also consider part-time options for the ...
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ICT and Development seminar series – 2017 webcasts
29 March 2017
Author:Our ICT and Development seminar series gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on the influence of new communication technologies on development processes. We were lucky to have four ...
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Introducing a FairWork Foundation
24 March 2017
Author:A picture I took at a training programme for digital workers in Nairobi. The workers are being taught how to transcribe an audio file that says: “Nobody had any ...
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Geonet Research Presentation at the UNI Africa’s 4th Regional Conference- March 25, 2017
23 March 2017
Author: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 ...
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New paper: Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods
21 March 2017
Author:As ever more policy-makers, governments and organisations turn to the gig economy and digital labour as an economic development strategy to bring jobs to places that need them, it ...
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Birth of ENDL, the European Network on Digital Labour
9 March 2017
Author:From all over Europe, researchers in the emergent field of digital labour assembled in Paris for the launch event of ENDL, the European Network on Digital Labour. Eighteen sociologists, ...
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Digitally Augmented Geographies – New Publication
2 March 2017
Author:I have another new publication out this week. Thanks to the editors (Rob Kitchin, Tracey Lauriault, and Matt Wilson) for all of their efforts in putting this book together! ...
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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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Join our London Digital Labour Meetup
26 February 2017
Author:If you are interested in scholarship or activism on the topic of digital labour and the future of work, then consider joining our regular meet-up series that will be ...
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Digital \ Human \ Labour – our schedule at the AAG
25 January 2017
Author:I have co-organised a series of session tracks for the AAG meeting titled ‘Digital Human Labour’. My great co-organisers (listed below) and I received an overwhelming number of submissions. ...
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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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