Tag: ICT4D
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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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CFP – Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice
30 January 2018
Author:Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff University, 28–31 August 2018 Session sponsor: the Digital Geographies Working Group ...
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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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The Tyranny of Digital Inclusion
31 December 2017
Author:Marco Haenssgen
In a previous blog post, I argued that mobile phone use can have negative consequences for people’s behaviour. If we assume for the sake of the argument that people ...
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World regions’ access to the internet
12 July 2017
Author:Ralph Straumann
The previous post in this mini-series, Who can access the internet?, looked at internet penetration in country context. In this post, we compare world regions and their access to ...
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‘Digital Labour’ – our new publication
4 July 2017
Author:New forms of digital work have emerged which, in theory, can be done from anywhere. Does this mean that geography no longer matters to digital work? Not exactly. My ...
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Who can access the internet?
25 June 2017
Author:Ralph Straumann
This map shows internet penetration, i.e. the percentage of the population of countries that has accessed the internet within a 12 month period, from any device (click for full ...
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How ready is Africa to join the knowledge economy?
22 June 2017
Author:Changes in the ways knowledge is created and used are driving economic and social development worldwide. Ugandan school by Brian Wolfe (Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0). “In times past, we ...
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Why we shouldn’t believe the hype about the Internet “creating” development
30 March 2017
Author:It’s about time. However, despite enthusiasm, there is a lack of academic consensus about the impacts of digital connectivity on economic development. Image: Nicolas Friederici. Vast sums of money ...
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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 great ...
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New report: ‘The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins’
21 March 2017
Author:This report is based on a three-year investigation conducted by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and the Gordon Institute of Business Science ...
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New report: ‘The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins’
21 March 2017
Author:This report is based on a three-year investigation conducted by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and the Gordon Institute of Business Science ...
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Charlotte: Advising on tech policy at the UK Department for International Development
21 March 2017
Author:Karen Mead
Charlotte Smart was a member of our 2014-15 MSc group. She studied geography as an undergraduate at Oxford, where she looked at the impact of technology adoption amongst the Maasai in Kenya. ...
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New Report: Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work at the Global Margins
20 March 2017
Author:The cartogram depicts countries as circles sized according to dollar inflow during March 2013 on a major online labour platform. The shading of the inner circle indicates the median ...
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What Impact is the Gig Economy Having on Development and Worker Livelihoods?
20 March 2017
Author:There are imbalances in the relationship between supply and demand of digital work, with the vast majority of buyers located in high-income countries (pictured). See the full article for ...
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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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Spatial discourses around Internet access in the developing world (new paper)
1 April 2016
Author:The ways in which we envision and talk about the internet matter. This is especially the case in the context of plans and projects to use the internet for ...
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‘big data’ and development seminar series
28 January 2016
Author: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 ...
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Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (new publication)
19 January 2016
Author:A new publication of ours in now out in The African Technopolitan. Graham, M., and Foster, C. 2016. Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, The African Technopolitan. 5 78-85. The ...
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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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