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Connecting Without Protecting: Intermediating the Internet Economy in Digital Livelihoods Provision for Refugees
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2022), pp. 13-21
"Because refugees face barriers to making a livelihood online, aid organisations and private enterprises support them by building bridges across digital divides, connectivity problems or skill gaps. They thereby become intermediaries and brokers that facilitate connections between refugees and onlin
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Digital Africa: How Big Tech and African Startups Are Reshaping the Continent
Hamburg: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2022), 13 pp.
"In summary, digitalisation is gaining momentum in Africa as the continent experiences significant improvements in its digital infrastructure and a vibrant startup ecosystem. To harness this momentum across society, African governments and their partners will need to strike the right balance between
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The Global Polarisation of Remote Work
Plos One, volume 17, issue 10: e0274630 (2022), 22 pp.
"The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of digitally enabled remote work with consequences for the global division of labour. Remote work could connect labour markets, but it might also increase spatial polarisation. However, our understanding of the geographies of remote work is limited. Specifi
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Refugees in the Digital Economy: The Future of Work Among the Forcibly Displaced
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2022), pp. 1-12
"The current scale and duration of displacement prompts renewed urgency about livelihoods prospects for displaced people and the role of humanitarian organisations in fostering them. This special issue focuses on how aid organisations, together with the private sector and other actors, have worked t
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Asia-Pacific region
Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 80 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the innovation capacity of the Asia-Pacific region through ICT-centric innovation activity and offers an insight to how good practice can strengthen Member State capacity to integrate ICT innovation into development agendas.
Although the Asia-Pacific region has a
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Arab States region
Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 79 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Arab States region through ICT-centric innovation policy monitors, and an insight into how good practices can strengthen capacity to mainstream ICT innovation into national development agendas. It showcases a number of c
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"What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using pan
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Africa States region
Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 64 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Africa region through ICT-centric Innovation policy monitors and shares insights about good practices strengthening the capacity to integrate ICT innovation in national development agendas. Overall, although sub-Saharan
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"This report focuses on women and girls using, studying and working in digital technology in five Western Balkan States (Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) and three Eastern Partnership countries (Ukraine, Georgia, and Republic of Moldova). On the su
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Women & Web Content Creation Guidebook
Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTAnet); Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 54 pp.
"This guide is aimed at helping content creators sharpen their skills and better navigate the storytelling platform(s). It covers blogs, vlogs, podcasts and use of social media. It gives tips on how to be a better storyteller, identifies audiences and how to monetize platforms. It also explains some
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Americas region
Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 70 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Americas region through ICT-centric innovation policy monitors and insights on how good practice can strengthen capacity to integrate ICT innovation into national development agendas.
Overall, the Americas region has sho
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Game Production Studies
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 355 pp.
"In Game Production Studies, an international group of established and emerging researchers takes a closer look at the everyday realities of video game production, ranging from commercial industries to independent creators and cultural intermediaries. Across sixteen chapters, the authors deal with i
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Informal Youth Employment in the Mobile Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa
London: GSMA (2021), 48 pp.
Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow
Cambridge: MIT Press (2020), 323 pp.
"In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley–influenced narratives of
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How We Worked from Home: Findings from the WFH Experience in Response to the COVID-19 Global Health Crisis in Malaysia
UNDP (2020), 41 pp.
"The findings from the study represent a mixed bag. There is much to celebrate—improved quality of life, enhanced productivity owing to factors such as reduced commute time, and, at scale, the evident reduction of the pollution load on the planet. Further, it sheds light on the possibility that gi
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The Digital Transformation of Labor: Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxii, 349 pp.
"This book takes its point of departure from a 2016 OECD report that contends that the impact digitalization has on the future of labor is ambiguous, as on the one hand it is suggested that technological change is labor-saving, but on the other hand, it is suggested that digital technologies have no
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