Mark Graham

E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development

The internet means access to information; it also means voice and representation. But many communities around the world, particularly in developing nations, lack such access. This can be a huge barrier in meaningful and transformative public participation. Mark Graham of the Oxford Internet Institute explores at the digital gap and how to conquer it once and for all.

Monday 09.11.2015

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Mark Graham is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the OII, a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, and an Associate in the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment. He has published articles in major geography, communications, and urban studies journals, and his work has been covered by the Economist, the BBC, the Washington Post, CNN, the Guardian, and many other newspapers and magazines. He is an editorial board member of Information, Communication, and Society, Geo:Geography, Environment and Planning A, and Big Data & Society. He is also a member of DFID’s Digital Advisory Panel and the ESRC’s Peer Review College. In 2014, he was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant to lead a team to study 'knowledge economies' in Sub-Saharan Africa over five years. This will entail looking at the geographies of information production, low-end (virtual labour and microwork) knowledge work, and high-end (innovation hubs and bespoke information services) knowledge work in fifteen African cities.

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