Interview about the power of digital maps
Mark Graham is interviewed about the power of digital maps
Mark Graham is interviewed about the power of digital maps
A special issue of the journal innovations has just been published. The issue focused on the topic of ‘digital inclusion’ and features a short piece that I wrote. Graham, M. 2014 Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content. innovations 9(3-4). 17-34. The piece asks whether increasing Internet access… Read More »
If you go to Rwanda and you’re interested in ICT and tech, chances are, you will soon pass through kLab, Kigali’s tech innovation hub. And so it was for me two months ago, when I started data collection for my research on innovation networks in Sub-Saharan Africa. I had a clear strategy: Through interviews, I… Read More »
Technologies of connectivity have changed beyond recognition in the last century. But, how have our imaginations of the effects of those technologies of connectivity changed? This is the question that we posed (and addressed) in a forthcoming paper that I wrote about last week: Graham, M., Andersen, C., and Mann, L. 2015. Geographies of Connectivity… Read More »
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 »