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Digital Economies at Global Margins
Mark Graham (editor)
2019
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Investigations of what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy mean for people and places at the world's economic margins. Within the last decade, more than one billion people became new Internet users. Once, digital connectivity was confined to economically prosperous parts of the world; now Internet users make up a majority of the world's population. In this book, contributors from a range of disciplines and locations investigate the impact of increased digital connectivity on people and places at the world's economic margins. Does the advent of a digitalized economy mean that those in economic peripheries can transcend spatial, organizational, social, and political constraints—or do digital tools and techniques tend to reinforce existing inequalities? The contributors present a diverse set of case studies, reporting on digitalization in countries ranging from Chile to Kenya to the Philippines, and develop a broad range of theoretical positions. They consider, among other things, data-driven disintermediation, women's economic empowerment and gendered power relations, digital humanitarianism and philanthropic capitalism, the spread of innovation hubs, and two cases of the reversal of core and periphery in digital innovation. Contributors Niels Beerepoot, Ryan Burns, Jenna Burrell, Julie Yujie Chen, Peter Dannenberg, Uwe Deichmann, Jonathan Donner, Christopher Foster, Mark Graham, Nicolas Friederici, Hernan Galperin, Catrihel Greppi, Anita Gurumurthy, Isis Hjorth, Lilly Irani, Molly Jackman, Calestous Juma, Dorothea Kleine, Madlen Krone, Vili Lehdonvirta, Chris Locke, Silvia Masiero, Hannah McCarrick,Deepak K. Mishra, Bitange Ndemo, Jorien Oprins, Elisa Oreglia, Stefan Ouma, Robert Pepper, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Julian Stenmanns, Tim Unwin, Julia Verne, Timothy Waema
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Keywords
- Aadhaar
- Agriculture
- alternative digital economy
- anti-poverty programs
- boundary object
- Business & management
- Chile
- China
- Coding
- connectivity
- Corporate social responsibility
- Crowdsourcing
- Development
- Didi Chuxing
- digital development
- digital economy
- digital humanitarianism
- digital labor
- Digitization
- discourse
- Discrimination
- disintermediation
- E-commerce: business aspects
- East Africa
- Economics, finance, business & management
- Entrepreneurship
- Food security
- freelancing
- gig economy
- Hackathons
- ICT
- ICT4D
- Impact of science & technology on society
- impact sourcing
- India
- infrastructure investment
- innovation hubs
- Internet
- knowledge exchange
- Latin America
- Logistics
- Marginality
- Mathematics & science
- mobile phones
- neoliberalis
- Neoliberalism
- online platforms
- Outsourcing
- philanthro-capitalism
- Precarity
- ride-hailing platforms
- Science funding & policy
- Science: general issues
- service outsourcing
- Shanzhai
- Shenzhen
- Social media
- Tanzania
- technical innovation
- Technology
- the Philippines
- trade
- uganda
- Value chains
- Volunteers
- women's economic empowerment
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DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.001.0001Editions