Digital Economies at Global Margins
- Length: 392 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Publication Date: 2019-01-18
- ISBN-10: 0262535890
- ISBN-13: 9780262535892
- Sales Rank: #3161651 (See Top 100 Books)
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
Cover Title page Copyright page Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1 Changing Connectivity and Digital Economies at Global Margins Opening Essays Marginal Benefits at the Global Margins: The Unfulfilled Potential of Digital Technologies Toward the Transformative Power of Universal Connectivity A Data-Driven Approach to Closing the Internet Inclusion Gap Digital Services and Industrial Inclusion: Growing Africa’s Technological Complexity Platforms at the Margins Digital Economies at Global Margins: A Warning from the Dark Side Digital Globality and Economic Margins—Unpacking Myths, Recovering Materialities I Digitalization at Global Margins 2 Making Sense of Digital Disintermediation and Development: The Case of the Mombasa Tea Auction 3 Development or Divide? Information and Communication Technologies in Commercial Small-Scale Farming in East Africa 4 Digital Inclusion, Female Entrepreneurship, and the Production of Neoliberal Subjects—Views from Chile and Tanzania 5 “Let the Private Sector Take Care of This”: The Philanthro-Capitalism of Digital Humanitarianism 6 The Digitalization of Anti-poverty Programs: Aadhaar and the Reform of Social Protection in India 7 The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD II Digital Production at Global Margins 8 Hope and Hype in Africa’s Digital Economy: The Rise of Innovation Hubs 9 Hackathons and the Cultivation of Platform Dependence 10 Meeting Social Objectives with Offshore Service Work: Evaluating Impact Sourcing in the Philippines 11 Digital Labor and Development: Impacts of Global Digital Labor Platforms and the Gig Economy on Worker Livelihoods 12 Geographic Discrimination in the Gig Economy 13 Margins at the Center: Alternative Digital Economies in Shenzhen, China 14 African Economies: Simply Connect? Problematizing the Discourse on Connectivity in Logistics and Communication Author Affiliations Index
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