Good gig, bad gig: working conditions in the global digital gig economy
Video Playlist
ICT and Development

Talks from leading scholars and practitioners on the influence of new communication technologies on development processes.
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Good gig, bad gig: working conditions in the global digital gig economy
Recorded: 8 August 2018
Duration: 00:02:13
New research from the OII reveals poor working conditions for workers in the digital gig economy.
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ICT4D: How do low-income users negotiate new practices of identity in a connected, digital age?
Recorded: 7 March 2017
Duration: 00:24:42
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr Savita Bailur from Caribou Digital for her ICT4D talk 'How do low-income users negotiate new practices of identity in a connected, digital age'.
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What makes cities successful? A complex systems approach to modelling urban economies
Recorded: 27 February 2017
Duration: 00:26:19
Urban centres, while benefiting from density and proximity of people, suffer from issues surrounding crime, congestion and density. In this talk, Dr Neave O'Cleary seeks to uncover the mechanisms behind the success of cities.
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Spatializing publics: mobile social media, urban sociability and the materiality of civic engagement
Recorded: 21 February 2017
Duration: 00:41:47
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to share the talk 'Spatializing publics: mobile social media, urban sociability and the materiality of civic engagement' by Wendy Willems from London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Big Data, Human Development and Valuing Voices: Innovation and Ethical Challenges in the Work of Africa’s Voices Foundation
Recorded: 8 March 2016
Duration: 01:00:20
Africa's Voices Foundation is a non-profit spin-out from research at Cambridge University’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights that provides expertise for citizen engagement and social data analytics to development and governance actors.
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Big Data and Putting the World’s Vulnerable People on the Map
Recorded: 9 February 2016
Duration: 01:00:41
Discussion of efforts to map the most vulnerable places in the developing world, in order that international and local NGOs and individuals can use the maps and data to better respond to crises affecting the areas.
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Big data, data activism, and the global civil society
Recorded: 26 January 2016
Duration: 01:02:31
This talk uses the lenses of data activism to take a critical approach to civil society's engagement with big data.
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ICT and Development: OII MSc Option Course
Recorded: 20 June 2015
Duration: 00:02:00
This option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" introduces students to the debates and practices surrounding the uses of ICTs with a focus on the Global South.
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Africa’s Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality
Recorded: 3 March 2015
Duration: 01:13:40
Over the past decade there has been a phenomenal growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa which has attracted substantial media and academic interest.
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The (so far) grassroots success story of Farmerline, a social mobile tech enterprise for African farmers
Recorded: 28 February 2015
Duration: 01:15:20
This talk will discuss some of Farmerline's success factors, including its locally adapted technological solutions and strong local outreach
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Combating Corruption with Mobile Phones
Recorded: 24 February 2015
Duration: 01:02:04
India's right to information movement demonstrated the potential to combat corruption through social audits – an exercise to share and verify public records with people.
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Ethical Treatment of Data in New Digital Landscapes: bringing development practitioners and academics together
Recorded: 10 February 2015
Duration: 00:36:19
How can NGOs like Oxfam come together with academics and practitioners alike to tackle emerging privacy and security challenges when it comes to effective management of data?
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Dying for an iPhone: The Hidden Struggle of China’s Workers
Recorded: 3 February 2015
Duration: 01:21:54
During 2010, 18 workers attempted suicide at Taiwanese-owned Foxconn Technology Group's Chinese facilities, where Apple and other high profile branded products are produced and assembled.
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Clues to ICT4D Policies in Developing Countries: The Colombian Example
Recorded: 24 June 2014
Duration: 00:39:28
In the last four years Colombia has experienced a digital revolution derived from an ambitious public policy plan called “Vive Digital”, which aims at reducing poverty, inequality and unemployment.
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What Hopes for ICT for Development?
Recorded: 11 March 2014
Duration: 00:54:00
In this seminar, Tim Unwin will draw on his experiences at the boundaries between theory and practice, and explore themes including notions of empowerment, poverty, political violence, and challenges of implementing effective 'development' interventions.
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How best to communicate with communities affected by disaster? Case Studies from Typhoon Haiyan
Recorded: 25 February 2014
Duration: 01:10:00
This seminar will investigate how different technologies were used by CDAC Network Members in the immediate response to Typhoon Haiyan, focusing particularly on how needs assessment data was collected, shared and acted upon.
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Thoughts Towards a History of ICT4D – and its Future Role
Recorded: 18 February 2014
Duration: 01:25:00
The presentation will use the history and development of ICT4D - and its relationships with both development policy and the ICT sector.
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The Internet in a post-PRISM world
Recorded: 11 February 2014
Duration: 00:44:00
This seminar will examine the Internet in a post-PRISM world, and ask if its power to tackle global poverty will be lost.
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Crowdsourcing and Development of Activity Systems: the Case of Emergency Response
Recorded: 3 February 2014
Duration: 00:50:49
The presentation suggests applying the notion of activity systems and zones of proximal development, as conceptualized in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), to the field of ICT4D.
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The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Implications for ICT4D Research
Recorded: 28 January 2014
Duration: 01:19:52
This talk explores new post-2015 development agenda and its implications for ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) research priorities.
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Development 2.0 and Beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013
Recorded: 27 February 2013
Duration: 01:10:02
In this talk, Dr Thompson will attempt to address some of the opportunities and contradictions presented and consider some emerging ways in which ICT4D researchers may contribute to the field.
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Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks
Recorded: 20 February 2013
Duration: 01:16:26
Drawing on case study material, the paper focuses on ways in which definitions of 'media' and other technical objects act to promote or prevent 'connection'.
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Humanitarian Campaigns in Social Media: Network Architectures and Kony 2012 as a Polymedia Event
Recorded: 13 February 2013
Duration: 00:47:21
Dr Mirca Madianou assesses the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action.
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ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories
Recorded: 6 February 2013
Duration: 00:29:31
Seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa.
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The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems
Recorded: 30 January 2013
Duration: 01:16:25
Professor Mansell discusses dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge power relations.