Digital Economies at Global Margins
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Cambridge, Mass.; London; Ottawa: MIT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), x, 378 pp.
ISBN 978-0-262-53589-2; 978-1-55250-600-4
1 Changing Connectivity and Digital Economies at Global Margins / Mark Graham
OPENING ESSAYS
Marginal Benefits at the Global Margins: The Unfulfilled Potential of Digital Technologies / Uwe Deichmann and Deepak Mishra
Toward the Transformative Power of Universal Connectivity / Bitange Ndemo
A Data-Driven Approach to Closing the Internet Inclusion Gap / Robert Pepper and Molly Jackman
Digital Services and Industrial Inclusion: Growing Africa's Technological Complexity / Calestous Juma
Platforms at the Margins / Jonathan Donner and Chris Locke
Digital Economies at Global Margins: A Warning from the Dark Side / Tim Unwin
Digital Globality and Economic Margins-Unpacking Myths, Recovering Materialities / Anita Gurumurthy
I. DIGITALIZATION AT GLOBAL MARGINS
2 Making Sense of Digital Disintermediation and Development: The Case of the Mombasa Tea Auction / Christopher Poster, Mark Graham, and Timothy Mwolo Waema
3 Development or Divide? Information and Communication Technologies in Commercial Small-Scale Farming in East Africa / Madien Krone and Peter Dannenberg
4 Digital Indusion, Female Entrepreneurship, and the Production of Neoliberal Subjects-Views from Chile and Tanzania / Hannah McCarrick and Dorothea Kleine
5 "Let the Private Sector Take Care of This ": The PhilanthroCapitalism of Digital Humanitarianism / Ryan Burns
6 The Digitalization of Anti-poverty Programs: Aadhaar and the Reform of Social Protection in India / Silvia Masiero
7 The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD / Jenna Burreil and Elisa Oreglia
II. DIGITAL PRODUCTION AT GLOBAL MARGINS
8 Hope and Hype in Africa's Digital Economy: The Rise of Innovation Hubs / Nicolas Friederici
9 Hackathons and the Cultivation of Platform Dependence / Lilly Irani
10 Meeting Social Objectives with Offshore Service Work: Evaluating Impact Sourcing in the Philippines / Jorien Oprins and Niels Beerepoot
11 Digital Labor and Development: Impacts of Global Digital Labor Platforms and the Gig Economy on Worker Livelihoods / Mark Graham, Isis Hjorth, and Vili Lehdonvirta
12 Geographie Discrimination in the Gig Economy / Hernan Galperin and Catrihel Greppi
13 Margins at the Center: Alternative Digital Economies in Shenzhen, China / Jack Linchuan Qiu and Julie Yujie Chen
14 African Economies: Simply Connect? Problematizing the Discourse on Connectivity in Logistics and Communication / Stefan Ouma, Julian Stenmanns, and Julia Verne
OPENING ESSAYS
Marginal Benefits at the Global Margins: The Unfulfilled Potential of Digital Technologies / Uwe Deichmann and Deepak Mishra
Toward the Transformative Power of Universal Connectivity / Bitange Ndemo
A Data-Driven Approach to Closing the Internet Inclusion Gap / Robert Pepper and Molly Jackman
Digital Services and Industrial Inclusion: Growing Africa's Technological Complexity / Calestous Juma
Platforms at the Margins / Jonathan Donner and Chris Locke
Digital Economies at Global Margins: A Warning from the Dark Side / Tim Unwin
Digital Globality and Economic Margins-Unpacking Myths, Recovering Materialities / Anita Gurumurthy
I. DIGITALIZATION AT GLOBAL MARGINS
2 Making Sense of Digital Disintermediation and Development: The Case of the Mombasa Tea Auction / Christopher Poster, Mark Graham, and Timothy Mwolo Waema
3 Development or Divide? Information and Communication Technologies in Commercial Small-Scale Farming in East Africa / Madien Krone and Peter Dannenberg
4 Digital Indusion, Female Entrepreneurship, and the Production of Neoliberal Subjects-Views from Chile and Tanzania / Hannah McCarrick and Dorothea Kleine
5 "Let the Private Sector Take Care of This ": The PhilanthroCapitalism of Digital Humanitarianism / Ryan Burns
6 The Digitalization of Anti-poverty Programs: Aadhaar and the Reform of Social Protection in India / Silvia Masiero
7 The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD / Jenna Burreil and Elisa Oreglia
II. DIGITAL PRODUCTION AT GLOBAL MARGINS
8 Hope and Hype in Africa's Digital Economy: The Rise of Innovation Hubs / Nicolas Friederici
9 Hackathons and the Cultivation of Platform Dependence / Lilly Irani
10 Meeting Social Objectives with Offshore Service Work: Evaluating Impact Sourcing in the Philippines / Jorien Oprins and Niels Beerepoot
11 Digital Labor and Development: Impacts of Global Digital Labor Platforms and the Gig Economy on Worker Livelihoods / Mark Graham, Isis Hjorth, and Vili Lehdonvirta
12 Geographie Discrimination in the Gig Economy / Hernan Galperin and Catrihel Greppi
13 Margins at the Center: Alternative Digital Economies in Shenzhen, China / Jack Linchuan Qiu and Julie Yujie Chen
14 African Economies: Simply Connect? Problematizing the Discourse on Connectivity in Logistics and Communication / Stefan Ouma, Julian Stenmanns, and Julia Verne
