Posts tagged: digital economy

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

Microwork The Gig Economy and Digital Outsourcing

Mohammad Anwar 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… »

Digital Economies at Global Margins

Mark Graham 22 January 2019 0

I am happy to announce that my new edited book ‘Digital Economies at Global Margins‘ is now out! It was a pleasure working with so many brilliant thinkers and scholars who produced the critical and cutting-edge research you’ll find in the book. A huge thanks to all of the authors who contributed. Below you can… Read More: Digital Economies at Global Margins »

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: announcing our upcoming book

Digital Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Friederici 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 »

New working paper: Bounded Opportunities for Digital Enterprises in Africa

Digital Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Friederici 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 »

New publication: Workers of the Internet unite?

The Gig Economy and Digital Outsourcing

Mark Graham 17 July 2018 0

I have a new co-authored article out, with two colleagues, based on our fieldwork with gig workers in Africa and Asia. The piece is about collective organisation in the gig economy and argues that as the gig economy grows in importance so too will worker self-organisation. Wood, A., Lehdonvirta, V., and Graham, M. 2018. Workers of the Internet… Read More: New publication: Workers of the Internet unite? »

My re:publica contribution: ‘: Perspectives from developing countries – It’s the End of the work as we know It (and I feel fine)!’

The Gig Economy and Digital Outsourcing

Mark Graham 24 May 2018 0

Earlier this month, I was on a panel at re:publica titled ‘Perspectives from developing countries – It’s the End of the work as we know It (and I feel fine)!’. Half of the panel is in German, but if you (aren’t a German speaker) can skip through to the English-language parts.

The Future of Work in the Global South

Microwork The Gig Economy and Digital Outsourcing

Mark Graham 8 March 2018 0

A network that I am part of – the The Future of Work in Developing Countries initiative – has just put out a new publication titled ‘The Future of Work in the Global South’. You can download the full publication here. It also contains a piece by my colleagues and I on the potentials of… Read More: The Future of Work in the Global South »

Taking Stock of Innovation Hubs Literature, Plus Three Working Papers

Digital Entrepreneurship Uncategorized

Nicolas Friederici 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 »

The rise of the planetary labour market

Microwork The Gig Economy and Digital Outsourcing Uncategorized

Mark Graham 30 January 2018 0

I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it because this will be the first year in human history in which a majority of the world’s population is connected to the internet. The internet is therefore no longer a network that… Read More: The rise of the planetary labour market »

World regions’ access to the internet

Mapping

Ralph Straumann 12 July 2017 0

The previous post in this mini-series, Who can access the internet?, looked at internet penetration in country context. In this post, we compare world regions and their access to the internet. This box plot visualization shows the distribution of per-country internet penetration, i.e. the percentage of the population of countries that has accessed the internet… Read More: World regions’ access to the internet »