Geonet Project
@GeonetProject
The Geonet project at the Oxford Internet Institute investigates the geographies, drivers, and effects of Sub-Saharan Africa’s emerging information economies.
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Have a look at a new @thetimes @raconteur article about future workplaces and featuring comments from our @GeonetProject researcher @SannaOjanpera #futureofwork #automation #digitaleconomy #gigeconomy #artificialintelligence
"The speed of new technology is so rapid that we often don’t realise a lot of the tech we already use is ‘automation’ in the workplace,” says Turing doctoral student & researcher @SannaOjanpera in @raconteur. Read the full article about future workplaces: bit.ly/3buhSwa
Based on extensive fieldwork, Anwar and @geoplace "argue that digital capitalism is—despite rarely being mentioned—increasingly 'made in Africa.'" Nice review of a crucial new book—The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in Planetary Networks of Work africasacountry.com/2022/03/the-pr…
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The promise and peril of the digital economy
How digital capitalism, despite often being framed as potential growth engine, exploits the already marginalized and reproduces inequalities and power-relations between Africans.
@TowardsFairWork are recruiting a researcher to work with the Fairwork Ghana team, housed within the University of Ghana Business School. Asking my contacts to share widely, and if you know anyone who may fit the description, please send it their way! #AcademicChatter
📢 JOB ALERT! Apply to our full-time researcher position at Fairwork Ghana (@ugbsofficial) to join our global project on labour conditions in the gig economy. APPLICATIONS CLOSE JANUARY 31st ‼️ Do you know the right person? 👀 Tag them below! 👇 fair.work/en/fw/blog/ope…
A year ago we organized the 'Digital | Economy | Africa' Conference and today the 'digital' remains as important as ever for the continent. Read our new blog post by @SannaOjanpera and @geoplace reflecting on the conference: geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/digital-e… #DigitalEconomyAfrica
Enjoyed this essay by my talented former @GeonetProject colleague Dr. Michel Wahome discussing decolonization through bringing African epic stories and heroines into the global consciousness and popular culture! Take note film industry 🎥
'Absent African Epics': Michel Wahome from @UniStrathclyde investigates forgotten African epic stories and characters, including Walatta Petros and Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita - discussing why they are not well known and what could be done to change this: learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/art…
Here's our paper about the role African workers are playing in developing key emergent digital tech such as autonomous vehicles and machine learning systems. markgraham.space/blog/2020/1/22… Photo of a shipping container in Northern Uganda that was converted into an AI training centre.
Check out our new article 'The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production' by our researchers @SannaOjanpera @geoplace & @mattzook in the Journal of Development Studies and free to download at: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #DigitalEconomy #AfricaDynamics2019
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The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production
We propose the construction of a Digital Knowledge Economy Index, quantified by way of measuring content creation and participation through digital platforms, namely the code sharing platform GitHu...
It's not December yet 🍂, but I'm delighted to have found this in my mailbox! Take a look at our article 'The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production' authored w @geoplace & @mattzook in the upcoming issue of the Journal of #DevStudies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
The gig economy: how to make it more fair in 4 steps by @geoplace weforum.org/agenda/2019/11… via @wef
Please share this call for contributions on decolonizing the Internet's languages. A project that the @oiioxford's Internet Geography team is working on with @WhoseKnowledge and @cis_india.
🔔ANNOUNCEMENT🔔 Call for Contributions: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages! [THREAD] We're producing a State of The Internet's Languages report, in partnership with @cis_india and @oiioxford 😍🤓
Our colleagues in the @TowardsFairWork project are hiring again. They have a 12-month postdoc available to focus on platform work in India and South Africa.
We're hiring again! This time for a researcher and project manager to work with us until (at least) next summer. The job will involve research in India and South Africa, and coordinating/management activities across our global operations. More info here: fair.work/join-our-team-…
The 2nd edition of Society and the Internet is now out!! The book, edited by @geoplace and @BiIIDutton contains 24 chapters by authors doing cutting-edge work about the impacts of the Internet on societies. geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/society-a…
Check out our most recent @oiioxford blog post by our researcher @SannaOjanpera talking about her new article she authored with our @GeonetProject @geoplace and @mattzook in the Journal of Development Studies and which you can download from tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #DigitalEconomy
tandfonline.com
The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production
We propose the construction of a Digital Knowledge Economy Index, quantified by way of measuring content creation and participation through digital platforms, namely the code sharing platform GitHu...
Interesting new blog from @SannaOjanpera @oiioxford calling for the creation of a Digital Knowledge Economy Index to effectively measure the transformation of Sub-Saharan #African economies as they embrace the #DigitalAge. oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/transform…
Catch up with @ChannelNewsAsia's report on #artificialintelligence and the role of women featuring our researcher @SannaOjanpera (1min:30) bit.ly/2GrRapU
Watch @ChannelNewsAsia's piece about the role of women in the rise of #artificialintelligence ft Turing researcher @SannaOjanpera (1min:30) bit.ly/2GrRapU. Sanna co-authored the report 'Data science, artificial intelligence & the futures of work': bit.ly/2Ec7tro
Check out our most recent blog post by our researcher @SannaOjanpera mapping out the global supply and demand for online labour over the first months of 2019 as tracked by the Online Labour Index of the @iLabourProject geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/mapping-t…
Great new blog from @TowardsFairWork supported by @oiioxford with detailed analysis on the latest rankings for which #digital platforms in the South African online #gigeconomy fare best for #workers rights. bit.ly/2WHBFEB
NEW South African PLATFORM SCORES LAUNCHED TODAY! We've written a blog to guide you through the importance of our new South African scores launched today! fair.work/blog/new-south…
We have an article for @TC_Africa based on a new paper authored by Amir Anwar and @geoplace. theconversation.com/most-call-cent… Download the paper from papers.ssrn.com/abstract=33695…
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Most call centre jobs are a dead end for South Africa’s youth
Unlike India’s, South Africa’s business process outsourcing sector is not generating jobs that offer workers the chance of progressing up the career ladder.
And here's a graph of how individual countries fared between the @WorldBank Knowledge Economy Index (left) and the Digital Knowledge Economy Index (right).
Here's our new paper proposing a Digital Knowledge Economy Index. When comparing country-level scores to a more traditional measure (@WorldBank Knowledge Economy Index), most low-income countries tend to do worse! geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-digit… work by @SannaOjanpera @geoplace @mattzook
This is a sobering reminder for policy and business circles, where knowledge economy visions are fuelled with hope and hype about the leapfrogging prospects of digitalisation.
Here's our new paper proposing a Digital Knowledge Economy Index. When comparing country-level scores to a more traditional measure (@WorldBank Knowledge Economy Index), most low-income countries tend to do worse! geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-digit… work by @SannaOjanpera @geoplace @mattzook
Here's our new paper proposing a Digital Knowledge Economy Index. When comparing country-level scores to a more traditional measure (@WorldBank Knowledge Economy Index), most low-income countries tend to do worse! geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-digit… work by @SannaOjanpera @geoplace @mattzook
Un marché du travail planétaire ? #gigeconomy
Here's our paper on how online labour platforms attempt to create a *planetary labour market* that is disembedded from local economic geographies. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…
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