Oxford Internet Institute

14 February 2018

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

It has almost been a year since I finished the final draft of my dissertation about African innovation hubs. In the meantime, a number of publications have come out about ... Read More Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers

14 February 2018

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

It has almost been a year since I finished the final draft of my dissertation about African innovation hubs. In the meantime, a number of publications have come out about ... Read More Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers

2 June 2017

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

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 ... Read More Africa’s Digital (R)Evolution: An Enterprise Perspective

2 June 2017

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

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 ... Read More Africa’s Digital (R)Evolution: An Enterprise Perspective

5 May 2017

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

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 ... Read More Dissertation: African Hubs as Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs

9 December 2016

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

We are recruiting a full-time Researcher to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) on a project that critically assesses the changing landscape of digital entrepreneurship ... Read More Hiring a Researcher at Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa

13 April 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

Chris Foster and I have a new publication that will be coming out in Global Networks: Foster, C. and Graham, M. 2016. Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in ... Read More Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks (new paper)

23 March 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

The Digital Transformations of Work Conference that Alex Wood and I organised brought together a room full of brilliant and passionate speakers and 80 guests to have a wide-ranging and ... Read More ‘Digital Transformations of Work’ 🎬 Conference Webcasts 🎬

22 March 2016

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 looked at the role that changing ... Read More The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations (now in print)

19 January 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

A new publication of ours in now out in The African Technopolitan. Graham, M., Mann, L., Friederici, N. and Waema, T. 2016. Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector, The African ... Read More Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector (new publication)

28 December 2015

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

With tech entrepreneurship on the rise across Africa, efforts to support the agenda are evolving and diversifying. There has been quite a bit of debate—sometimes of the heated kind—about ... Read More Hubs vs. Incubators: What Are the Pain Points for Impact and Efficiency?

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

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

5 June 2015

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

Use of the term “hub” has certainly been inflationary in discussions about innovation and entrepreneurship support. I believe that innovation hubs are a genuinely new (and exciting!) organizational form, ... Read More Incubators vs. Hubs at the Example of Accra

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”

25 February 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

I’m happy to report the release of a new report that comes our of a multi-year project to student the Internet and the Business Process Outsourcing sector in East ... Read More The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa

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: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector’

12 January 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The publisher has kindly allowed us to freely share three chapters of our new book (that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca Twyman): ‘Research and Fieldwork in ... Read More Sample chapters available from new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development’

2 December 2014

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

The first stage of the Geonet project aiming to broadly understand the diversity of new practices in Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy is off to a good start. Beyond collecting ... Read More First Geonet Publications Start Taking Shape

2 November 2014

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

If you go to Rwanda and you’re interested in ICT and tech, chances are, you will soon pass through kLab, Kigali’s tech innovation hub. And so it was for ... Read More A Tech Innovation Hub in the Making: kLab and Its Many Roles and Stakeholders