By Mia Hassoun for the OII’s #DigitalInequality blog series Lily, a doctor and single mother of two, lives in a smart home in a new public housing estate (HDB) outside Singapore’s city centre. Hers is an eco-friendly smart home, equipped… Continue Reading
By Nayana Prakash for the OII’s #DigitalInequality blog series Like many Indians living abroad, I have been simultaneously glued to and scared by the news coming from India in relation to its cataclysmic COVID-19 crisis. As millions turn to social… Continue Reading
By Daniel Arubayi for the OII’s #DigitalInequality blog series It is another day as a platform driver roaming the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, waiting for a ping on a smartphone device signalling a trip assignment from a platform algorithm (Figure… Continue Reading
By Margie Cheesman for the OII’s #Digital Inequality blog series The rise of big data and big tech platforms has heightened concerns about how ‘identification practices’—the ways in which people are made recognisable to institutions—enable invasions of privacy, state surveillance,… Continue Reading
Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) are coming together for a new blog series about digital inequalities. Through their masters, doctoral and postdoctoral work, contributors examine the differences digital technologies are making beyond Euro-American contexts and at global economic… Continue Reading
In discussions about the locations that make up the key productive nodes of the global digital economy, African workers rarely get a mention. Autonomous vehicles, machine learning systems, next-generation search engines and recommendations systems: how many of these technologies are ‘made… Continue Reading
I have a new publication out with my colleague Mark Graham. The paper is based on the Geonet Project’s research on the gig economy in Africa. The link to download it is below. Suggested citation: Anwar, M. A. and Graham, M.… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
I have a new publication out with my colleague Amir Anwar that draws on the years of research we have done with digital workers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Details, and a link to download the paper are below. Anwar, M. A.… Continue Reading
Call for papers: Digital Work in the Planetary Market Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers Denver, Colorado April 6-10, 2020 Session Organizers: Mark Graham, Fabian Ferrari Work, and the networks that extract value from it, are increasingly embedded… Continue Reading