Tag: knowledge economy
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The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production
23 May 2019
Author:The Geonet team has a new paper out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., and Zook, M. 2019. The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production. The Journal of Development Studies. ...
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Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers
14 February 2018
Author: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 ...
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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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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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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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New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
15 March 2017
Author:We have a new publication out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., Straumann, R. K., De Sabbata, S., & Zook, M. (2017). Engagement in the knowledge economy: Regional patterns of content ...
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Hiring a Researcher at Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa
9 December 2016
Author: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 ...
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Geographies of Knowledge and Information in Europe: Mapping the Data-Driven Contours of the Digital Single Market
27 January 2016
Author:The Digital Agenda presented by the European Commission proposes to realize the potential afforded by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to encourage innovation, economic growth, and progress1. ...
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Hubs vs. Incubators: What Are the Pain Points for Impact and Efficiency?
28 December 2015
Author: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 ...
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Tracing employment rights through online labour markets
25 November 2015
Author:Online labour markets represent a rapidly growing feature of the world of work. Dozens of international online market places exist for the buying and selling of labour. The number ...
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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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The geography of academic knowledge
22 September 2015
Author:Our team recently had the opportunity of working with some submission data from SAGE journals. Amongst other things, the data tell us where authors of articles come from, and primary ...
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“Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps
17 August 2015
Author:We very recently published a paper that brings together a lot of the internet mapping work that we’ve been doing: Graham, M., S. De Sabbata, and M. A. Zook. ...
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Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps
17 August 2015
Author:We very recently published a paper that brings together a lot of the internet mapping work that we’ve been doing: Graham, M., S. De Sabbata, and M. A. Zook. (2015) ...
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New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information
14 August 2015
Author:Our research group spends a lot of time mapping the internet and the digital information that flows within it. So we decided to attempt to bring together a lot ...
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互联网地理:数据阴影和数字分工
7 August 2015
Author:I recently had the opportunity to give a talk to a visiting Chinese delegation to Oxford. The hosts kindly translated my entire slide deck into Chinese. I’ve therefore uploaded ...
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The Geographies of Science
1 July 2015
Author:Description This graph illustrates the number of journal articles produced around the world. Data The data used in this graph are from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, which “provides ...
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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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New paper: “The Domestic Turn: Business Processing Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations”
10 May 2015
Author: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, ...
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