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
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