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  • Tag: participation

    • Transforming African economies through digitalisation

      8 July 2019

      Author:

      Sanna Ojanpera

      The stakes are high for Africa’s digital transformation, but the measurement of related changes is lacking behind. Sanna Ojanperä, DPhil student and researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University ...
      Read More Transforming African economies through digitalisation

    • Anticipating Blockchain for Development: Data, Power and the Future

      20 November 2017

      Author:

      Margie Cheesman

      In this post, Margie Cheesman, the CII group’s new anthropologist, tells us about her background research and doctoral interests, which are at the intersection of digital infrastructures and international ...
      Read More Anticipating Blockchain for Development: Data, Power and the Future

    • Work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute: I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!

      5 May 2017

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      I am hiring a Digital Geographer to work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute for two years on a full-time contract (we’ll also consider part-time options for the ...
      Read More Work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute: I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!

    • Want to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute? I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!

      5 May 2017

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      I am hiring a Digital Geographer to work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute for two years on a full-time contract (we’ll also consider part-time options for the ...
      Read More Want to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute? I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!

    • Help us improve the HUMANE roadmaps on Sharing Economy, eHealth, and Citizens’ Participation!

      27 January 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      The HUMANE project is building roadmaps that can help guide future policies in specific social domains such as Sharing Economy, eHealth, and Citizens’ Participation. The HUMANE roadmaps act as a ...
      Read More Help us improve the HUMANE roadmaps on Sharing Economy, eHealth, and Citizens’ Participation!

    • The geography of Wikipedia edits

      28 September 2016

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      Wikipedia has a geography. This is something that my colleagues and I have explored previously in a variety of scholarship. For a new book on ‘Open Development’, my colleague Stefano ...
      Read More The geography of Wikipedia edits

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

      27 January 2016

      Author:

      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

    • Does crowdsourcing citizen initiatives affect attitudes towards democracy?

      22 November 2015

      Author:

      Henrik Serup Christensen

      Crowdsourcing legislation is an example of a democratic innovation that gives citizens a say in the legislative process. In their Policy and Internet journal article ‘Does Crowdsourcing Legislation Increase Political ...
      Read More Does crowdsourcing citizen initiatives affect attitudes towards democracy?

    • Do Finland’s digitally crowdsourced laws show a way to resolve democracy’s “legitimacy crisis”?

      16 November 2015

      Author:

      Taneli Heikka

      There is much discussion about a perceived “legitimacy crisis” in democracy. In his article The Rise of the Mediating Citizen: Time, Space, and Citizenship in the Crowdsourcing of Finnish ...
      Read More Do Finland’s digitally crowdsourced laws show a way to resolve democracy’s “legitimacy crisis”?

    • Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”

      10 November 2015

      Author:

      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”

    • “E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture

      28 October 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      I’m delighted to be giving a Kapuściński Development Lecture on Nov 9. The talk will be titled ‘E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development’ You can ...
      Read More “E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture

    • New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information

      29 September 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      The latest issue of New Geographies is now out, and contains an exciting collection of papers: My contribution to the issue is titled ‘Information Geographies and Geographies of Information.’ It is ...
      Read More New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information

    • The geography of academic knowledge

      22 September 2015

      Author:

      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

    • New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

      7 September 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      Network of Wikipedia edits between world regions, normalised for each target region. The edges are coloured according to the source region. Percentages denote self-edits (not depicted). I am very ...
      Read More New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

    • “Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps

      17 August 2015

      Author:

      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

    • Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps

      17 August 2015

      Author:

      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

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

      14 August 2015

      Author:

      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

    • 互联网地理:数据阴影和数字分工

      7 August 2015

      Author:

      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

    • The Geographies of Science

      1 July 2015

      Author:

      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

    • new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir

      10 June 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

        A chapter that I co-authored with Ilhem Allagui and Bernie Hogan has just been published in the book ‘Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir.’ You can ...
      Read More new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir

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