[STS-Africa] FW: Latest Digital Development Outputs (Data, Humanitarianism, Labour, Platforms) from CDD, Manchester

[gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie]

New resources for those interested in social sciences and purpose-driven
data science

Gianluca

 

 

Recent outputs - on Data-for-Development; Digital Humanitarianism; Digital
Labour; Digital Platforms - from Centre for Digital Development researchers,
University of Manchester:

 

DATA-FOR-DEVELOPMENT

"
<https://pathwayscommission.bsg.ox.ac.uk/rise-of-data-economy-and-policy-str
ategies-for-digital-development> The Rise of the Data Economy and Policy
Strategies for Digital Development" (open access) by Shamel Azmeh,
Christopher Foster & Ahmad Abd Rabuh, expands on policy debates around
digital development.  It examines the emergence of the data economy and
potentials of strategic policy and/or industrial policy in the global South.
Based on a global policy analysis, it identifies four key "policy pathways"
by which countries can look to strategically capture value in the data
economy.

 

DIGITAL HUMANITARIANISM

" <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-65828-1_5> Digital
Innovation by Displaced Populations: A Critical Realist Study of Rohingya
Refugees in Bangladesh" by Faheem Hussain, P.J. Wall & Richard Heeks, uses a
critical realist approach to understand the three mechanisms the underpin
digital innovation by Rohingya refugees.

 

"
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/alliancembs/2020/11/24/lessons-on-the-digital-
world-from-the-charity-sector-the-corporate-world-has-a-lot-to-learn/?sh=dcc
8b013591d> Lessons On The Digital World From The Charity Sector: The
Corporate World Has A Lot To Learn" (open access) by Brian Nicholson, Lisa
Kidston, Cris Sachikoyne & Dane Anderton, argues that African charitable
organisations and those like the national Citizens Advice in England and
Wales are leading the way when it comes to demonstrating exemplary digital
leadership.

 

DIGITAL LABOUR AND DEVELOPMENT

" <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-45819-5_9> Competing
Institutional Logics in Impact Sourcing" by Fareesa Malik & Brian Nicholson,
draws on the concepts of institutional logics to  present a case study of a
USA-based IT outsourcing vendor "AlphaCorp" practising impact sourcing in a
Pakistan subsidiary. The findings show that in cases where actors are
located in diverse institutional contexts, competing interests determine the
respective priority given to the welfare and market logics.

 

"
<https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ITP-04-2020-0218/full/h
tml> Digital Labour Platforms in Pakistan: Institutional Voids and
Solidarity Networks" by Fareesa Malik, Richard Heeks, Silvia Masiero & Brian
Nicholson, conceptualises the theoretical link between labour platforms and
socio-economic development drawing on the notion of institutional voids and
empirical fieldwork in Pakistan.

 

" <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1_3> Risks and
Risk-Mitigation Strategies of Gig Economy Workers in the Global South" by
Tatenda Mpofu, Pitso Tsibolane, Richard Heeks & Jean-Paul Van Belle,
analyses three strategies (platform-, driver- and driver group-led) that
seek to mitigate the risks of ride-hailing work in Cape Town.

 

" <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718520300257> The
Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for Improving Platform Work in a Global
Context" (open access) by Mark Graham, Jamie Woodcock, Richard Heeks, Paul
Mungai, Jean-Paul Van Belle, Darcy du Toit, Sandra Fredman, Abigail Osiki,
Anri van der Spuy & Six M. Silberman, introduces the work of the Fairwork
Foundation to rank and compare gig work platforms against a set of five
decent work principles.

 

DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND DEVELOPMENT

"
<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/analysing-urban-platforms-inequality
-platform-justice-lens-1-richard-heeks-satyarupa-shekhar/e/10.4324/978042931
9754-11> Analysing Urban Platforms and Inequality Through a 'Platform
Justice' Lens" by Richard Heeks & Satyarupa Shekhar, introduces a model of
"platform justice" through which to analyse the impact of urban digital
platforms.

 

" <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1_1> Competing
Logics: Towards a Theory of Digital Platforms for Socio-economic
Development" by Silvia Masiero & Brian Nicholson, seeks to contribute to the
nascent literature on platforms in development, unpacking a human-centred
development logic as an alternative to the market logic that animates most
of the platforms discourse and relying on it to lay the foundations for an
emerging theory of platforms for development.

 

" <https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2020/societal_impact/societal_impact/6/>
Digital Platforms, Surveillance and Processes of Demoralization" by Sung
Chai, Brian Nicholson, Robert Scapens & Chunlei Yang, conceptualises the
theoretical link between platforms and morality drawing on an interpretive
study of a hotel in Vietnam to examine surveillance.

 

Richard Heeks

 <https://www.cdd.manchester.ac.uk> Centre for Digital Development

University of Manchester, UK

 

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