New publication: “Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content.”

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

New publication: Geographies of Connectivity in East Africa: Trains, Telecommunications, and Technological Teleologies

I’m very happy to announce that a paper that I co-authored with Casper Andersen and Laura Mann has been accepted for publication in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers: Graham, M., Andersen, C., and Mann, L. 2015. Geographies… Continue Reading

Fieldwork in our Development and Digital Labour Project

  The photographs above come from a conference for online freelancers that Isis, Vili, and I attended in Manila a few days ago. The conference hall was packed with freelancers and potential freelancers looking to hear about ‘the future of work.’… Continue Reading

Digital Labour and Development

The picture above was taken in Pasig City in the Philippines. The poster advertising free wifi is symbolic of the changing connectivities of a country in which more than 30 million people are now Internet users. Whereas the advert on the the left is symbolic of… Continue Reading

AAG 2015 CFP – From Online Sweat Shops to Silicon Savannahs: Geographies of Production in Digital Economies of Low-Income Countries

  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

Call for Papers – Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Margins

Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Margins AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25, 2015 (sponsored by the Development Geography Research Group) Organisers: Mark Graham and Chris Foster, University of Oxford We are in the throes of a… Continue Reading