Two of us just put out a last-minute CfP for next year’s AAG. This ties especially into Innovation Hubs pillar. Please share widely and submit by Oct 19 if you have suitable work in progress. — CfP AAG 2016: The productive power of connectivity and entrepreneurship discourses at economic margins AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco,… Read More: Connectivity & entrepreneurship discourse: new CfP for AAG 2016 in… »
I am very happy to announce a new paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector.’ A pre-print is available below. Graham, M. 2015. Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector. Environment and Planning A. (in press). Abstract East Africa has traditionally been characterised by stark barriers to… Read More: New paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in… »
A very short update from the ITU’s World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium in Tbilisi Georgia that I just attended. One strong theme on the first day of the meeting was that “The illiterate of the 21st century are those that cannot use ICTs” (a quote from the Ministerial Roundtable). This idea is also reflected in the… Read More: Reflections on the ITU’s World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium »
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: contrasting visions of connectivity between the colonial and contemporary moments »