Tag: knowledge economy

23 May 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

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. ...
Read More The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production

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

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

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?

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

15 March 2017

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

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 ...
Read More New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

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

27 January 2016

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

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. ...
Read More Geographies of Knowledge and Information in Europe: Mapping the Data-Driven Contours of the Digital Single Market

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?

25 November 2015

Authors: Alex Wood

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 ...
Read More Tracing employment rights through online labour markets

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”

22 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More The geography of academic knowledge

17 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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. ...
Read More “Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps

17 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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) ...
Read More Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps

14 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

7 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More 互联网地理：数据阴影和数字分工

1 July 2015

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

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 ...
Read More The Geographies of Science

9 June 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Uneven Geographies of Digital Wages

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”