Posts by Mark Graham

About Mark Graham

Mark Graham is the Professor of Internet Geography at the OII, a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, and an Associate in the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment. He leads a range of research projects spanning topics between digital labour, the gig economy, internet geographies, and ICTs and development.

Geographies of Google Search

4 September 2014 0

Google doesn’t seem to be characterised by the massive geographic inequalities that characterise many other types of digital information, but it still presents a very selective representation of our planet

Open Data Index

3 September 2014 0

Data This graphic illustrates the 2013 Open Data Index published by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The index has been calculated for 70 countries, based on 700 datasets, concerning 10 different topics, ranging from public transport to government spending. Each country has been evaluated on each topic, which in turn has been assessed on nine criteria,… Read More »

Innovation Hubs in Sub-Saharan Africa

20 August 2014 0

This third stage of the project centres on the specialised services being nurtured in Sub-Saharan Africa’s innovation hubs. Innovation hubs have been variously termed ‘tech hubs’, ‘business incubators’, ‘collaboration spaces’, and ‘innovation labs.’ They are locations in which programmers, developers, service providers, funders, and the public sector come together (usually in a space with large… Read More »

Bottom of the pyramid labour (BoP) in Sub-Saharan Africa

20 August 2014 0

The second stage of the project will focus on ‘bottom of the pyramid’ labour (BoP) in Sub Saharan Africa. The term ‘BoP’ is increasingly used to describe ways of productively enrolling the world’s poorest into production networks and commodity chains. ICT-mediated microwork and micro-tasks (sometimes referred to as ‘paid crowdsourcing’) are an example of this… Read More »