Also refer to related posts in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and innovationmanagement.se where colleagues and I expanded on some elements outlined in this post. Innovation and entrepreneurship “hubs” and “labs” are all the rage these days. A wide range of actors is convinced that… Continue Reading
Even if you are just a casual follower of technology in developing countries, you will probably by now have come across blog posts and news articles touting Africa’s tech entrepreneurship boom.[1] Indeed, the first fast-growing mobile app startups have come… Continue Reading
As part of our research work on changing connectivity in East Africa we will be undertaking three meetings this week in Kigali, Rwanda. These will summarise the findings around our research work in the tourism, tea and BPO sectors in… Continue Reading
Continuing with our series of blog posts exposing the workings behind a multidisciplinary big data project, we talk this week about the process of moving between small data and big data analyses. Last week, we did a group deep dive into our data.… Continue Reading
Heather Ford gave this talk at Wikimania in London on Sunday warning Wikipedians about the fact that they are by no means a completely ‘neutral’ resource and that they suffer from a ‘homegrown’ bias that results from different points of view… Continue Reading
In this series of blog posts, Vili Lehdonvirta writes about his thoughts and experiences at ISA 2014 in Yokohama, Japan. In this third and final part, he discusses organized labour and global production networks, and draws implications to the study… Continue Reading
In this series of blog posts, we are documenting the process by which a group of computer and social scientists are working together on a project to understand the geography of Wikipedia citations. Our aim is not only to better understand how far Wikipedia has… Continue Reading
In this series of blog posts, Vili Lehdonvirta writes about his thoughts and experiences at ISA 2014 in Yokohama, Japan. In this second part, he discusses professionals and knowledge workers in the context of labour market flexibilization, and draws implications… Continue Reading
From Online Sweat Shops to Silicon Savannahs: Geographies of Production in Digital Economies of Low-Income Countries AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25, 2015 (sponsored by the Development Geography Specialty Group) Organizers: Mark Graham, Nicolas Friederici, and Isis Hjorth… Continue Reading
My colleagues Professor Timothy Waema and Charles Katua at the University of Nairobi have recently finished a report describing and summarising some of their research into the effects of changing connectivity in the Kenyan tea and tourism sectors. You can… Continue Reading