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… Continue Reading
“Ecosystem” has become one of the most common terms in tech innovation. It rolls easily off the tongue, probably because it has a communal connotation, and evokes ideas such as “collaboration” and “multi-stakeholder.” Where “innovation system” sounds like a technocratic… Continue Reading
Heather Ford and I recently had the opportunity to visit some of the Programmable City group in Maynooth, Ireland as part of their ‘Code and the City‘ workshop. Our full talk is now online as a video:
As part of research we are doing on internet connectivity and economic development, we want to understand the resources that academics are using to navigate these debates. Below is a (very) short survey. We would appreciate it if you could… Continue Reading
Scott Hale, Devin Gaffney, and I have a paper out in The Professional Geographer. Graham, M., Hale, S., and Gaffney, D. 2014. Where in the World Are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter. The Professional Geographer. 66(4). 568-578. (or access a… Continue Reading
I have published a short piece The Conversation that summarises some work that I carried out with two colleagues (Casper Andersen and Laura Mann) on visions of connectivity in East Africa, and why they matter. The article follows how the… Continue Reading
I recently had the opportunity to participate in an interview about digital maps. The interview is in BBC Radio 4’s excellent ‘Digital Human’ programme on Maps. In it, I speak about why maps increasingly matter in our digital age, and… Continue Reading
To build on Vili’s earlier post about the geographies of virtual gold farming, I want to share a bit of our spatial analysis (conducted with the help of Claudio Calvino and Stefano De Sabbata) of the data we are using in… Continue Reading
A special issue of the journal innovations has just been published. The issue focused on the topic of ‘digital inclusion’ and features a short piece that I wrote. Graham, M. 2014 Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access… Continue Reading
Update: Times, locations and links to abstracts now available. Please see listings below Our recent call for papers for two sessions at the 2015 Association of American Geographers meeting (Apr 21-25 2015) yielded an excellent response. We received a large… Continue Reading
