Oxford Internet Institute

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

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 first ... Read More The rise of the planetary labour market

31 December 2017

Authors: 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 ... Read More The Tyranny of Digital Inclusion

12 July 2017

Authors: 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 ... Read More World regions’ access to the internet

4 July 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More ‘Digital Labour’ – our new publication

25 June 2017

Authors: 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 ... Read More Who can access the internet?

22 June 2017

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

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 ... Read More How ready is Africa to join the knowledge economy?

30 March 2017

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

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 ... Read More Why we shouldn’t believe the hype about the Internet “creating” development

21 March 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More New report: ‘The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins’

21 March 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More New report: ‘The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins’

21 March 2017

Authors: 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. ... Read More Charlotte: Advising on tech policy at the UK Department for International Development

20 March 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More New Report: Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work at the Global Margins

20 March 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More What Impact is the Gig Economy Having on Development and Worker Livelihoods?

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

19 January 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (new publication)

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”

15 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

SciDevNet has just published some of my preliminary thoughts about digital labour in development. The argument being that just because digital work is international, doesn’t mean it operates outside ... Read More “Virtual products aren’t built with virtual work”: a comment piece about concerns about digital labour for development