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 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
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
By Mark Graham, Martin Dittus, Muki Haklay, Yu-Shan Tseng, Gillian Rose, and Rob Kitchin who presented talks, and the attendees of the subsequent workshop on “Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice” at RGS-IBG 2018 in Cardiff on Wednesday… Continue Reading
The Geonet team will attend next year’s Global Conference of Economic Geography (GCEG) in full strength, running two hopefully lively sessions. Both run under the larger theme “Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins.” Papers can be submitted between 15 Nov… Continue Reading
I was recently at Wikimedia’s HQ in San Francisco to give a short talk about some of the geographic imbalances in Wikipedia. I was telling a now familiar story: one where not only do we not see many contributions from… Continue Reading
