Digital Economies at Global Margins

• Altri autori: Graham, Mark (Redattore)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
• Serie: International Development Research Centre
• Soggetti: Impact of science & technology on society; Science funding & policy; E-commerce: business aspects; digitization; disintermediation; Internet; East Africa; trade; ICT; ICT4D; agriculture; value chains; knowledge exchange; women's economic empowerment; digital development; neoliberalism; Chile; Tanzania; entrepreneurship; digital humanitarianism; philanthro-capitalism; crowdsourcing; social media; neoliberalis; food security; anti-poverty programs; Aadhaar; India; mobile phones; China; Uganda; boundary object; innovation hubs; discourse; technology; digital economy; coding; hackathons; infrastructure investment; technical innovation; volunteers; service outsourcing; impact sourcing; corporate social responsibility; the Philippines; gig economy; digital labor; outsourcing; freelancing; precarity; discrimination; online platforms; Latin America; alternative digital economy; marginality; Shenzhen; Shanzhai; Didi Chuxing; ride-hailing platforms; connectivity; development; logistics
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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 prospe...