Geonet Project

The Geonet project at the Oxford Internet Institute investigates the geographies, drivers, and effects of Sub-Saharan Africa’s emerging information economies.

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Have a look at a new @thetimes @raconteur article about future workplaces and featuring comments from our @GeonetProject researcher @SannaOjanpera #futureofwork #automation #digitaleconomy #gigeconomy #artificialintelligence

[The Alan Turing Institute @turinginst]

"The speed of new technology is so rapid that we often don’t realise a lot of the tech we already use is ‘automation’ in the workplace,” says Turing doctoral student & researcher @SannaOjanpera in @raconteur. Read the full article about future workplaces: https://t.co/W8IOfiWMCt

[Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski]

Based on extensive fieldwork, Anwar and @geoplace "argue that digital capitalism is—despite rarely being mentioned—increasingly 'made in Africa.'"

Nice review of a crucial new book—The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in Planetary Networks of Work https://t.co/aoRHjqfNrK

[Jekanyika| @[email protected] @tedoex]

@TowardsFairWork are recruiting a researcher to work with the Fairwork Ghana team, housed within the University of Ghana Business School.

Asking my contacts to share widely, and if you know anyone who may fit the description, please send it their way! #AcademicChatter

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

A year ago we organized the 'Digital | Economy | Africa' Conference and today the 'digital' remains as important as ever for the continent. Read our new blog post by @SannaOjanpera and @geoplace reflecting on the conference: https://t.co/lqFfvTVrLr #DigitalEconomyAfrica

[Sanna Ojanperä @SannaOjanpera]

Enjoyed this essay by my talented former @GeonetProject colleague Dr. Michel Wahome discussing decolonization through bringing African epic stories and heroines into the global consciousness and popular culture! Take note film industry 🎥

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Here's our paper about the role African workers are playing in developing key emergent digital tech such as autonomous vehicles and machine learning systems.

https://t.co/IlkyX3ocN1

Photo of a shipping container in Northern Uganda that was converted into an AI training centre.

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Check out our new article 'The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production' by our researchers
@SannaOjanpera @geoplace & @mattzook in the Journal of Development Studies and free to download at: https://t.co/Dfp5tPw7Kw #DigitalEconomy #AfricaDynamics2019

[Sanna Ojanperä @SannaOjanpera]

It's not December yet 🍂, but I'm delighted to have found this in my mailbox! Take a look at our article 'The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production' authored w @geoplace & @mattzook in the upcoming issue of the Journal of #DevStudies https://t.co/KJjoyZfWUz

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

The gig economy: how to make it more fair in 4 steps by @geoplace https://t.co/qqXvO4lqAF via @wef

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Please share this call for contributions on decolonizing the Internet's languages. A project that the @oiioxford's Internet Geography team is working on with @WhoseKnowledge and @cis_india.

[@[email protected] on Mastodon @WhoseKnowledge]

🔔ANNOUNCEMENT🔔

Call for Contributions: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages! [THREAD]

We're producing a State of The Internet's Languages report, in partnership with @cis_india and @oiioxford 😍🤓

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Our colleagues in the @TowardsFairWork project are hiring again. They have a 12-month postdoc available to focus on platform work in India and South Africa.

[Fairwork @TowardsFairWork]

We're hiring again! This time for a researcher and project manager to work with us until (at least) next summer.

The job will involve research in India and South Africa, and coordinating/management activities across our global operations. More info here: https://t.co/9t94Px0Nrq

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

The 2nd edition of Society and the Internet is now out!!

The book, edited by @geoplace and @BiIIDutton
contains 24 chapters by authors doing cutting-edge work about the impacts of the Internet on societies.

https://t.co/TlPxbJYKuD

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Check out our most recent @oiioxford blog post by our researcher @SannaOjanpera talking about her new article she authored with our @GeonetProject @geoplace and @mattzook in the Journal of Development Studies and which you can download from https://t.co/Dzd38FCcrZ #DigitalEconomy

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

Interesting new blog from @SannaOjanpera @oiioxford calling for the creation of a Digital Knowledge Economy Index to effectively measure the transformation of Sub-Saharan #African economies as they embrace the #DigitalAge.
https://t.co/9NaEIeWlmb

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Catch up with @ChannelNewsAsia's report on #artificialintelligence and the role of women featuring our researcher @SannaOjanpera (1min:30) https://t.co/hl4wBBMd0D

[The Alan Turing Institute @turinginst]

Watch @ChannelNewsAsia's piece about the role of women in the rise of #artificialintelligence ft Turing researcher @SannaOjanpera (1min:30) https://t.co/HHl7Fdfa56. Sanna co-authored the report 'Data science, artificial intelligence & the futures of work': https://t.co/xaP8nKMacF

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Check out our most recent blog post by our researcher @SannaOjanpera mapping out the global supply and demand for online labour over the first months of 2019 as tracked by the Online Labour Index of the @iLabourProject https://t.co/EUMTATMbUk

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

Great new blog from @TowardsFairWork supported by @oiioxford with detailed analysis on the latest rankings for which #digital platforms in the South African online #gigeconomy fare best for #workers rights. https://t.co/OZj4r8ZQ2f

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

We have an article for @TC_Africa based on a new paper authored by Amir Anwar and @geoplace.

https://t.co/ZEaECAXIxo

Download the paper from https://t.co/3fAzqGCCed

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

And here's a graph of how individual countries fared between the @WorldBank Knowledge Economy Index (left) and the Digital Knowledge Economy Index (right).
https://t.co/y12VZDrcBX

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Here's our new paper proposing a Digital Knowledge Economy Index. When comparing country-level scores to a more traditional measure (@WorldBank Knowledge Economy Index), most low-income countries tend to do worse! https://t.co/61XrpKd8q8 work by @SannaOjanpera @geoplace @mattzook

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

This is a sobering reminder for policy and business circles, where knowledge economy visions are fuelled with hope and hype about the leapfrogging prospects of digitalisation.

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Here's our new paper proposing a Digital Knowledge Economy Index. When comparing country-level scores to a more traditional measure (@WorldBank Knowledge Economy Index), most low-income countries tend to do worse! https://t.co/61XrpKd8q8 work by @SannaOjanpera @geoplace @mattzook

[Geonet Project @GeonetProject]

Here's our new paper proposing a Digital Knowledge Economy Index. When comparing country-level scores to a more traditional measure (@WorldBank Knowledge Economy Index), most low-income countries tend to do worse! https://t.co/61XrpKd8q8 work by @SannaOjanpera @geoplace @mattzook

[LouisCharlesViossat @LouisCharlesVio]

Un marché du travail planétaire ? #gigeconomy