New publication: Geographies of Connectivity in East Africa: Trains, Telecommunications, and Technological Teleologies
New article examining historical and contemporary expectations of connectivity in East Africa
New article examining historical and contemporary expectations of connectivity in East Africa
Visualisation highlighting the fact that a majority of content produced in Wikipedia is about a relatively small part of our planet
Illustration of the global division of microwork undertaken on the ODesk platform, revealing some of its locally divergent practices
Building on our map of content in Flickr, this graphic tells a very similar story. Panoramio is smaller than Flickr, with about a tenth of its users, and only a fraction of its photos. Nonetheless, Panoramio plays an important role in online representations of places, as photographs on the site can be accessed as a… Read More »
Visualisation of the global submarine fibre-optic cable network
The first stage of the project aims to broadly understand the diversity of new practices in Sub Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy. We define the knowledge economy as a combination of IT-enabled services, the quaternary sector of the economy, and more informal processes and practices of IT-mediated information production that tend to get left out of… Read More »