Digital Economies at Global Margins

• Main Author: Graham, Mark
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019; MIT Press; International Development Research Centre
• Edition: 1
• Series: International Development Research Centre
• Subjects: Aadhaar; agriculture; alternative digital economy; anti-poverty programs; boundary object; Business and Management; Chile; China; coding; Communications & Telecommunications; Computers; connectivity; corporate social responsibility; crowdsourcing; development; Didi Chuxing; digital development; digital economy; digital humanitarianism; digital labor; Digitalisierung; digitization; discourse; discrimination; disintermediation; E-commerce: business aspects; East Africa; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Electronic commerce; entrepreneurship; Entwicklung; Entwicklungsländer; food security; freelancing; gig economy; hackathons; ICT; ICT4D; Impact of science and technology on society; impact sourcing; India; Information Science; infrastructure investment; innovation hubs; Internet; knowledge exchange; Latin America; logistics; marginality; Marginality, Social; Mathematics and Science; mobile phones; neoliberalis; neoliberalism; online platforms; outsourcing; Periphere Region; philanthro-capitalism; Political Science; precarity; Public Policy; Regionalentwicklung; ride-hailing platforms; Science & Technology Policy; Science funding and policy; Science: general issues; Scientific research; service outsourcing; Shanzhai; Shenzhen; Small business; Small business > Technological innovations; Social Aspects; Social marketing; social media; Tanzania; technical innovation; technology; Technology & Engineering; Technology & Policy; the Philippines; trade; Uganda; value chains; volunteers; women's economic empowerment
• ISBN: 0262535890; 9780262535892; 9780262349482; 0262349485
• DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.001.0001

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