Posts tagged: knowledge 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… »

The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production

Mapping

Mark Graham 23 May 2019 0

The Geonet team has a new paper out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., and Zook, M. 2019. The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production. The Journal of Development Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1554208. The paper proposes the construction of a Digital Knowledge Economy Index. It then compares country rankings on this index to more traditional metrics like… Read More: The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Who can access the internet?

Mapping

Ralph Straumann 25 June 2017 1

This map shows internet penetration, i.e. the percentage of the population of countries that has accessed the internet within a 12 month period, from any device (click for full size). It is an update of our earlier visualizations on this topic. Digital connectivity is often viewed as a vital resource for successful participation in the… Read More: Who can access the internet? »

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

Digital Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Friederici 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 »

New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Mapping

Sanna Ojanpera 15 March 2017 0

We have a new publication out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., Straumann, R. K., De Sabbata, S., & Zook, M. (2017). Engagement in the knowledge economy: Regional patterns of content creation with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Information Technologies & International Development, 13, 33–51. It is open access, so please navigate to the journal site to download the… Read More: New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of… »

Hiring a Researcher at Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa

Digital Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Friederici 9 December 2016 1

We are recruiting a full-time Researcher to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) on a project that critically assesses the changing landscape of digital entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Researcher will conduct a grounded, comparative empirical study of digital entrepreneurship in African cities. We are interested in the practices of digital entrepreneurship,… Read More: Hiring a Researcher at Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan… »

Mapping Twitter

Mapping

Mark Graham 5 December 2016 0

I’ve been working with Antonello Romano to update some of our older research into the geography of Twitter. Above you can see some maps from a sample of about 2.5 million tweets collected worldwide over 48 hours in October 2016. These are collected using the Twitter streaming API (at most a 1% sample). Because of the… Read More: Mapping Twitter »