Digital economies at global margins / edited by Mark Graham.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press ; Ottawa, ON, Canada : International Development Research Centre, [2019]Description: x, 378 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262535892 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23
LOC classification:
  • HD2341 DIG 2019
Contents:
Changing connectivity and digital economies at global margins / Mark Graham -- Making sense of digital disintermediation and development : the case of the Mombasa Tea auction / Christopher Foster, Mark Graham, and Timothy Mwolo -- Development or divide? : information and communication technologies in commercial small-scale farming in East Africa / Madlen Krone and Peter Dannenberg -- Digital inclusion, female entrepreneurship and the production of neoliberal subjects' views from Chile and Zambia / Hannah McCarrick and Dorothea Kleine -- "Let the private sector take care of this" : the philanthro-capitalism of digital humanitarianism / Ryan Burns -- The digitalization of anti-poverty programs : aadhaar and the reform of social protection in India / Silvia Masiero -- The myth of market price information : mobile phones and the application of economic knowledge in ICTD / Jenna Burrell and Elisa Oreglia -- Digital production at global margins -- Hope and hype in Africa's digital economy : the rise of innovation hubs / Nicolas Friederici -- The limits of hackathons in making the internet matter / Lilly Irani -- Meeting social objectives with offshore service work : evaluating impact sourcing in the Philippines / Jorien Oprins and Niels Beerepoot -- Digital labor and development : impacts of global digital labor platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods / Mark Graham, Isis Hjorth, and Vili Lehdonvirta -- Geographical discrimination in the gig economy / Hernan Galperin and Catrihel Greppi -- Margins at the center : alternative digital economies in Shenzhen, China / Jack Qiu and Julie Yujie Chen -- African economies : simply connect? problematizing the discourse on connectivity in logistics and communication / Stefan Ouma, Julian Stenmanns, and Julia Verne -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Changing connectivity and digital economies at global margins / Mark Graham -- Making sense of digital disintermediation and development : the case of the Mombasa Tea auction / Christopher Foster, Mark Graham, and Timothy Mwolo -- Development or divide? : information and communication technologies in commercial small-scale farming in East Africa / Madlen Krone and Peter Dannenberg -- Digital inclusion, female entrepreneurship and the production of neoliberal subjects' views from Chile and Zambia / Hannah McCarrick and Dorothea Kleine -- "Let the private sector take care of this" : the philanthro-capitalism of digital humanitarianism / Ryan Burns -- The digitalization of anti-poverty programs : aadhaar and the reform of social protection in India / Silvia Masiero -- The myth of market price information : mobile phones and the application of economic knowledge in ICTD / Jenna Burrell and Elisa Oreglia -- Digital production at global margins -- Hope and hype in Africa's digital economy : the rise of innovation hubs / Nicolas Friederici -- The limits of hackathons in making the internet matter / Lilly Irani -- Meeting social objectives with offshore service work : evaluating impact sourcing in the Philippines / Jorien Oprins and Niels Beerepoot -- Digital labor and development : impacts of global digital labor platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods / Mark Graham, Isis Hjorth, and Vili Lehdonvirta -- Geographical discrimination in the gig economy / Hernan Galperin and Catrihel Greppi -- Margins at the center : alternative digital economies in Shenzhen, China / Jack Qiu and Julie Yujie Chen -- African economies : simply connect? problematizing the discourse on connectivity in logistics and communication / Stefan Ouma, Julian Stenmanns, and Julia Verne -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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