Posts tagged: Africa

Digital Labour at Economic Margins: African Workers and the Global Information Economy. (Forthcoming Publication)

5 January 2020 0

I have a new publication coming out soon in the Review of African Political Economy, with my colleague Mark Graham. The paper is based on the research we have been carrying out over a number of years in Africa. It deals with the role African digital labour is playing in the global information economy and… Read More: Digital Labour at Economic Margins: African Workers and the Global… »

Mapping the Availability of Online Labour in 2019

5 June 2019 0

In previous blog posts, we’ve mapped the availability of online labour in 2016 [1] and in 2017 [2] using the data provided by the Online Labour Index (OLI) measuring the utilization of online labour platforms [3]. The OLI is based on tracking all projects and tasks posted into a selected sample of platforms, using API access… Read More: Mapping the Availability of Online Labour in 2019 »

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: announcing our upcoming book

27 November 2018 0

If we’ve been quiet about our Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa research, it’s because Michel, Mark, and I have been busy drafting chapters for an upcoming monograph. In the book, we use our empirical data to work through some of the development hopes that have been associated with digital entrepreneurship, for instance, that Africa may leapfrog… Read More: Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: announcing our upcoming book »

Mapping Broadband Affordability in 2016

30 October 2018 0

The relative cost of being connected to the internet underpins the global digital divide. This visualization illustrates the unevenness of the geographies of broadband affordability, the ramifications of which can be seen in some of the other visualizations created by our project, such as the cartogram of the world online and the archipelago of disconnection.… Read More: Mapping Broadband Affordability in 2016 »

New working paper: Bounded Opportunities for Digital Enterprises in Africa

14 September 2018 0

  African digital entrepreneurs like Tayo Oviosu (see tweet in the picture) are forcefully pursuing the aspiration that African technologies will one day be used by millions of users around the world. We want to share a working paper that discusses this ambition. In the paper, we’re examining the possibilities for African digital firms to scale… Read More: New working paper: Bounded Opportunities for Digital Enterprises in Africa »

Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers

14 February 2018 0

It has almost been a year since I finished the final draft of my dissertation about African innovation hubs. In the meantime, a number of publications have come out about hubs in Africa and elsewhere, some in high-profile venues (references are below). This probably signifies that hubs are becoming accepted as a unique and interesting organizational… Read More: Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers »

Mapping the Availability of Online Workers

5 October 2017 0

In a previous blog post, we’ve mapped the availability of online labour in 2016 [1] using the data provided by the Online Labour Index (OLI) measuring the utilization of online labour platforms [2]. The OLI is based on tracking all projects and tasks posted into a selected sample of platforms, using API access and web scraping.… Read More: Mapping the Availability of Online Workers »

Michel Wahome joins Geonet and talks digital entrepreneurship

4 July 2017 0

The ‘techie’ archetype is the mascot of our age. Generally imagined and depicted as a youth, most often male, wearing a casual sweat-shirt, and carrying a backpack that contains the tool of his trade—the laptop. The techie dreams of building a software ‘app’ that commands a global following and so ingenious that wealthy investors line… Read More: Michel Wahome joins Geonet and talks digital entrepreneurship »

Africa’s Digital (R)Evolution: An Enterprise Perspective

2 June 2017 0

Digital entrepreneurship is on the rise across Africa. There is no question that the number of technology startups and the number of organizations trying to support them has multiplied in recent years. Many have taken this rise of activity to indicate a fundamental and promising shift. Already, The Next Africa has been proclaimed, and policymakers… Read More: Africa’s Digital (R)Evolution: An Enterprise Perspective »

Dissertation: African Hubs as Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs

5 May 2017 0

Good news: my dissertation on African technology innovation hubs is now complete! The permanent digital record (incl. a pdf for download) is here, and the hardbound copy will shortly be deposited with Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries as well. Friederici, N. (2016, October). Innovation Hubs in Africa: Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs. Dissertation, Oxford, UK: Oxford Internet Institute, University… Read More: Dissertation: African Hubs as Assemblers of Technology Entrepreneurs »