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Professor of Digital Development, and Director of the Centre for Digital Development, University of Manchester, UK
Manchester, UK
Joined January 2010
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Context and Digital Start-Ups in the Global South
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#DigitalEconomy #DigitalEnterprise
How can #Earthobservation data better support adaptation in #mountain regions?
New post traces the chain from data → information → decisions → action → results, drawing lessons from cases in the Himalaya, Andes and Alps.
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Positive Deviance: A Data-Powered Approach to the Covid-19 Response
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#PositiveDeviance #PositiveDigitalDevelopment
How to research “positive digital development” using variants of the appreciative inquiry approach:
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#ICT4D #PositiveDigitalDevelopment #AppreciativeInquiry
Four failures, five objectives and the policy instruments to match: a short video on how governments can build genuinely #inclusiveinnovation systems. Free paper linked
youtu.be/CMoaWdlWKIk
#InnovationPolicy #DigitalDevelopment
Ride-hailing Platform Asymmetries between Riders and Driver-partners in Lagos, #Nigeria
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#GigWork #GigEconomy
Why do so many innovations aimed at the poor never reach them, or fail once they do?
My new short video explains what governments need to do to make innovation inclusive.
youtu.be/CMoaWdlWKIk
#InclusiveInnovation #ICT4D
Six Good Practices for Digital Inclusion: Lessons from Cumbria cumbriadigitalfutures.wordpr…
Addressing Institutional Voids in Nigeria’s Agricultural Finance Markets through Agri-finance Platforms
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#FinTech #ICT4D #Nigeria
New paper: “Evaluating the Development Impact of Digital Platform Work through the Capability Approach”
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#GigEconomy #PlatformWork #DigitalLabour #DigitalDevelopment #CapabilityApproach #ICT4D
ICTs and Precision Development: Towards Personalised Development
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#ICT4D #DigitalDevelopment
What makes for effective digital inclusion?
My study with the Cumbria Digital Inclusion Network identifies six good practices from the report, People, Purpose, Partnerships & Place: Lessons for Digital Inclusion from Cumbria
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#DigitalInclusion #Cumbria
How can we research and design for better digital futures?
One answer comes from Appreciative Inquiry:
ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2026… #ICT4D
Digital financial inclusion in ten African countries: foregone digital dividends
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#DigitalInclusion #FinTech
Good #inclusiveinnovation policy needs a shift in worldviews, seeing marginalised groups as both producers and consumers of innovation
This post makes the case for collaborative, experimental "Policy Collaboratories" ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2016…
#ICT4D
Five policy objectives for #inclusiveinnovation: ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2016…
Financial Inclusion and Institutional Voids: Are Digital Platforms a Solution
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#FinTech
Trust Issues and Ride-Hailing Platforms in Lagos, #Nigeria
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#GigWork #GigEconomy #RideHailing
The Quest for the Digitisation of Education in Developing Countries: Are we Forgetting Teachers
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#EdTech