Digital Development (formerly Development Informatics) working papers
Series editor: Professor Richard Heeks
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Working papers
- 102/2023 - Shaping a Digitalising Infrastructure: Logistics and the Dynamics of Chinese-Southeast Asian E-Commerce (Christopher Foster)
- 101/2023 - Analysing the Development Impact of the Gig Economy using Sen’s Capability Approach: A Case Study of the Physical Gig Economy in India (Hiroto Yanaka & Richard Heeks)
- 100/2023 - China’s Expansion into Brazilian Digital Surveillance Markets (Esther Majerowicz & Miguel Henriques De Carvalho)
- 99/2023 - The Chinese Surveillance State in Latin America? Evidence from Argentina and Ecuador (Maximiliano Vila Seoane & Carla Álvarez Velasco)
- 98/2023 - Learning Along the Digital Silk Road? Technology Transfer, Power, and Chinese ICT Corporations in North Africa (Tin Hinane El-Kadi)
- 97/2023 - Alibaba in Mexico: Adapting the Digital Villages Model to Latin America (Guillermo J. Larios-Hernandez)
- 96/2023 - Chinese Digital Platform Companies’ Expansion in the Belt and Road Countries (Yujia He)
- 95/2023 - China’s Digital Expansion in the Global South: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda (Richard Heeks, Angelica V Ospina, Christopher Foster, Ping Gao, Xia Han, Nicholas Jepson, Seth Schindler & Qingna Zhou)
- 94/2022 - Exploring Financing for Green-Tech SMEs in East Africa: Current Trends and Risk Appetite (Aarti Krishnan)
- 93/2022 - Revisiting Digital Inclusion: A Survey Of Theory, Measurement and Recent Research (Matthew Sharp)
- 92/2021 - The Data-Powered Positive Deviance Handbook (Basma Albanna & Andreas Pawelke with Jeremy Boy & Andreas Gluecker)
- 91/2021 - Data-Powered Positive Deviance: Combining Traditional and Non-Traditional Data to Identify and Characterise Development-Related Outperformers (Basma Albanna, Richard Heeks, Andreas Pawelke, Jeremy Boy, Julia Handl & Andreas Gluecker)
- 90/2021 - From Digital Divide to Digital Justice in the Global South: Conceptualising Adverse Digital Incorporation (Richard Heeks)
- 89/2021 - Strengthening the Skills Pipeline for Statistical Capacity Development to Meet the Demands of Sustainable Development: Implementing a Data Fellowship Model in Colombia (Pete Jones, Jackie Carter, Jaco Renken & Magdalena Arbeláez Tobón)
- 88/2020 - The Urban Data Justice Case Study Collection
- 87/2020 - Measuring the Global Broadband Divide using Aggregated Crowdsourced Big Data (Alfonso Rivera-Illingworth, Richard Heeks & Jaco Renken)
- 86/2020 - Digital Labour Platforms in the Global South: Filling or Creating Institutional Voids? (Richard Heeks, Karsten Eskelund, Juan Erasmo Gomez-Morantes, Fareesa Malik & Brian Nicholson)
- 85/2020 - Systematic Evaluation of Platform Work Against Decent Work Standards: Development of a New Framework and Application in the Global South (Richard Heeks, Mark Graham, Paul Mungai, Jean-Paul Van Belle & Jamie Woodcock)
- 84/2020 - Impact of ICTs-in-Agriculture on Rural Resilience in Developing Countries (William Hanson and Richard Heeks)
- 83/2019 - Making Informal Settlements ‘Visible’ Through Datafication: A Case Study of Quarry Road West Informal Settlement, Durban, South Africa (Catherine Sutherland, Bahle Mazeka, Sibongile Buthelezi, Duduzile Khumalo and Patrick Martel)
- 82/2019 - Community-Based Data Justice: A Model for Data Collection in Informal Urban Settlements (Denisse Albornoz, Katherine Reilly & Marieliv Flores)
- 81/2019 - Capturing Gender and Class Inequities: The CCTVisation of Delhi (Aayush Rathi & Ambika Tandon)
- 80/2019 - Data Gathering and Justice in the Urban Informal Sector: Views from the Frontline (Terry Gibson)
- 79/2019 - Aadhaar-Led Identification and Datafication Among Informal Workers in South India: A Data-Justice Perspective (Shyam Krishna)
- 78/2019 - Data Justice through the Prism of Information Politics and Resource Injustice: A Case Study from Hyderabad’s Urban Frontier (Loraine Kennedy, Ashima Sood, Debdatta Chakraborty & Ram Mohan Chitta)
- 77/2019 - Urban Slums in a Datafying Milieu: Challenges for Data-Driven Research Practice (Bijal Brahmbhatt, Siraz Hirani, Neha Lal & Bhumika Chauhan)
- 76/2019 - Spatial|Data Justice: Mapping and Digitised Strolling against Moral Police in Iran (Azadeh Akbari)
- 75/2019 - Visual Data Justice? Datafication of Urban Informality in South Africa Using 360o Imaging Technologies (Jonathan Cinnamon)
- 74/2018 - An Applied Data Justice Framework: Analysing Datafication and Marginalised Communities in Cities of the Global South (Richard Heeks & Satyarupa Shekhar)
- 73/2018 - Understanding the Development Implications of Online Outsourcing: A Study of Digital Labour Platforms in Pakistan (Fareesa Malik, Brian Nicholson & Richard Heeks)
- 72/2018 - Big Data and Urban Transportation in India: A Bengaluru Bus Corporation Case Study (Vanya Rakesh, Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay & Christopher Foster)
- 71/2017 - Decent Work and the Digital Gig Economy: A Developing Country Perspective on Employment Impacts and Standards in Online Outsourcing, Crowdwork, etc (Richard Heeks)
- 70/2017 - Digital Economy and Digital Labour Terminology: Making Sense of the “Gig Economy”, “Online Labour”, “Crowd Work”, “Microwork”, “Platform Labour”, etc (Richard Heeks)
- 69/2017 - A Structural Model and Manifesto for Data Justice for International Development (Richard Heeks)
- 68/2017 - Defining, Conceptualising and Measuring the Digital Economy (Rumana Bukht & Richard Heeks)
- 67/2017 - Digital Start-Ups in the Global South: Embeddedness, Digitality and Peripherality in Latin America (Gerardo Quinones, Richard Heeks & Brian Nicholson)
- 66/2017 - Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from India (Ritam Sengupta, Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay & Christopher Foster)
- 65/2017 - Best Practice for Implementing Mobile Finance in Low-Income Communities (Rebecca Martin & Richard Duncombe)
- 64/2016 - Examining “Digital Development”: The Shape of Things to Come? (Richard Heeks)
- 63/2016 - Data Justice For Development: What Would It Mean? (Richard Heeks and Jaco Renken)
- 62/2016 - Measuring the Barriers to Big Data for Development: Design-Reality Gap Analysis in Colombia’s Public Sector (Liliana Fernández Gómez and Richard Heeks)
- 61/2015 - Policies to Support Inclusive Innovation (Christopher Foster, Richard Heeks)
- 60/2015 - e-Science for Digital Development: 'ICT4ICT4D' (Martin Hilbert)
- 59/2014 - ICT4D 2016: New Priorities for ICT4D Policy, Practice and WSIS in a Post-2015 World (Richard Heeks)
- 58/2014 - ICTs and Poverty Eradication: Comparing Economic, Livelihoods and Capabilities Models (Richard Heeks)
- 57/2014 - Future Priorities for Development Informatics Research from the Post-2015 Development Agenda (Richard Heeks)
- 56/2014 - From the MDGs to the Post-2015 Agenda: Analysing Changing Development Priorities (Richard Heeks)
- 55/2013 - A Framework to Assess Participation and Empowerment Impacts of ICT4D Projects (Matt Haikin, Richard Duncombe)
- 54/2013 - Understanding Urban Climate Change and Digital Infrastructure Interventions from a Resilience Perspective (Richard Heeks, Angelica V Ospina)
- 53/2013 - Inclusive Innovation: Definition, Conceptualisation and Future Research Priorities (Richard Heeks, Mirta Amalia, Robert Kintu, Nishant Shah)
- 52/2013 - Understanding e-Waste Management in Developing Countries: Building Sustainability in the Indian ICT Sector (Richard Heeks, Logakanthi Subramanian, Carys Jones)
- 51/2013 - ICTs and Social Movements under Authoritarian Regimes: An Actor-Network Perspective (Richard Heeks, Ryoung Seo-Zindy)
- 50/2012 - Mobile Phones for Agricultural and Rural Development: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions (Richard Duncombe
- 49/2012 - Women’s ICT Sector Employment in Developing Countries: Dualism of Rhetoric vs. Reality in the Case of Sri Lanka (Sharon Morgan)
- 48/2012 - Understanding Mobile Phone Impact on Livelihoods in Developing Countries: A New Research Framework (Richard Duncombe)
- 47/2011 - Can a Process Approach Improve ICT4D Project Success? (Matthew Walton, Richard Heeks)
- 46/2011 - ICTs and Informal Learning in Developing Countries (Christopher Foster)
- 45/2010 - Explaining ERP Failure in Developing Countries: A Jordanian Case Study (Ala'a Hawari, Richard Heeks)
- 44/2010 - A New ICT Maturity Model for Education Institutions in Developing Countries (Julian M. Bass)
Pre 2010
- 43/2009 - Internet Usage Under Authoritarian Regimes: Conviviality, Community, Blogging and Online Campaigning in Iran (Aghil Ameripour, Brian Nicholson, Michael Newman)
- 42/2009 - The ICT4D 2.0 Manifesto: Where Next for ICTs and International Development? (Richard Heeks)
- 41/2009 - Assessing the Potential for Mobile Payments in Africa: Approaches and Evidence from Uganda (Richard Duncombe)
- 40/2009 - Analysing the Mobile Telecommunications Market in a Developing Country: A Socio-Technical Perspective on Pakistan (Ping Gao, Adnan Rafiq)
- 39/2009 - Impact Assessment of Mobile Phones on Development: Concepts, Methods and Lessons for Practice (Richard Duncombe)
- 38/2009 - Remoteness, Exclusion and Telecentres in Mountain Regions: Analysing ICT-Based "Information Chains" in Pazos, Peru (Richard Heeks, Laura León Kanashiro)
- 37/2009 - Mobile Phones and Financial Services in Developing Countries: A Review of Concepts, Methods, Issues, Evidence and Future Research Directions (Richard Duncombe, Richard Boateng)
- 36/2009 - Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects: A Compendium of Approaches (Richard Heeks, Alemayehu Molla)
- 35/2008 - Analysing Telecentres Using Postcolonial Theory (Savita Bailur)
- 34/2008 - Conceptualising Information Culture in Developing Countries (Yingqin Zheng, Richard Heeks)
- 33/2008 - Nation States, Networks of Flows and ICT-Enabled Development: Learning from Jordan (Chris Westrup, Saheer Al-Jaghoub)
- 32/2008 - Current Analysis and Future Research Agenda on "Gold Farming": Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online Games (Richard Heeks)
- 31/2008 - Deconstructing Community Participation in Telecentre Projects (Savita Bailur)
- 30/2008 - Researching ICT-Based Enterprise in Developing Countries: Analytical Tools and Models (Richard Heeks)
- 29/2007 - Mobile Telephony and Developing Country Micro-Enterprise: A Nigerian Case Study (Abi Jagun, Richard Heeks, Jason Whalley)
- 28/2006 - Analysing the Organisational Risk and Change of CMM Software Process Improvement in a Nearshoring Firm (Martha Marcias-Garza and Richard Heeks
- 27/2006 - Analysing ICT Applications for Poverty Reduction via Micro-enterprise Using the Livelihoods Framework (Richard Duncombe)
- 26/2006 - SMEs and E-commerce in Developing Countries: Frameworks for Assessing the Role of Change Agents (Richard Duncombe, Alemayehu Molla)
- 25/2006 - Analysing the Software Sector in Developing Countries Using Competitive Advantage Theory (Richard Heeks)
- 24/2005 - Success and Failure of ERP Technology Transfer: A Framework for Analysing Congruence of Host and System Cultures (Alemayehu Molla, Ioannis Loukis)
- 23/2005 - Human Resource Development Policy in the Context of Software Exports: Case Evidence from Costa Rica (Brian Nicholson, Sundeep Sahay)
- 22/2005 - Exploring the Reality of eCommerce Benefits Among Businesses in a Developing Country (Alemayehu Molla)
- 21/2004 - A Profile of Nigeria's Software Industry (H. Abimbola Soriyan, R. Heeks)
- 20/2004 - ICT Initiatives, Women and Work in Developing Countries: Reinforcing or Changing Gender Inequalities in South India? (Shoba Arun, Richard Heeks, Sharon Morgan)
- 19/2004 - Growth and Formalisation of Information Systems in Developing Country SMEs (Richard Duncombe)
- 18/2004 - The Impact of eReadiness on eCommerce Success in Developing Countries: Firm-Level Evidence (Alemayehu Molla)
- 17/2003 - Uncertainty and Coordination in Global Software Projects: A UK/India-Centred Case Study (Su-Ying Lai, Richard Heeks, Brian Nicholson)
- 16/2003 - Knowledge and Learning in Online Networks in Development: A Social Capital Perspective (Sarah Cummings, Richard Heeks, Marleen Huysman)
- 15/2003 - Building Iran's Software Industry: An Assessment of Plans and Prospects Using the Software Export Success Model (Brian Nicholson, Sundeep Sahay)
- 14/2003 - Information Management Strategy Formation in Northern Development NGOs (Michael Schueber)
- 13/2002 - An Information Systems Perspective on Ethical Trade and Self-Regulation (Richard Duncombe and Richard Heeks)
- 12/2002 - Software Export Success Factors and Strategies in Developing and Transitional Economies (Richard Heeks, Brian Nicholson)
- 11/2002 - Failure, Success and Improvisation of Information Systems Projects in Developing Countries (Richard Heeks)
- 10a/2002 - The Economics of ICTs and Global Inequality: Convergence or Divergence for Developing Countries? (Richard Heeks, Charles Kenny)
- 10/2002 - Themes and Issues in Telecentre Sustainability (Raul Roman, Royal D. Colle)
- 9/2000 - Synching or Sinking: Trajectories and Strategies in Global Software Outsourcing Relationships (Richard Heeks, S. Krishna, Brian Nicholson, Sundeep Sahay)
- 8/2000 - International NGOs: Networking, Information Flows and Learning (Shirin Madon)
- 7/1999 - Information, ICTs and Small Enterprise: Findings from Botswana (Richard Duncombe and Richard Heeks)
- 6/1999 - Software Strategies in Developing Countries (Richard Heeks)
- 5/1999 - Information and Communication Technologies, Poverty and Development (Richard Heeks)
- 4/1999 - The Tyranny of Participation in Information Systems: Learning from Development Projects (Richard Heeks)
- 3/1998 - The Uneven Profile of Indian Software Exports (Richard Heeks)
- 2/1998 - Romania's Hardware and Software Industry: Building IT Policy and Capabilities in a Transitional Economy (Mihaiela Grundey, Richard Heeks)
- 1/1998 - Evaluation of Donor-Funded Information Technology Transfer Projects in China: A Lifecycle Approach (Erik Baark, Richard Heeks)
Short papers and briefing papers
Please note: the links below lead directly to a PDF version of the papers.
DIG eDevelopment Briefings
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14/2010 - Delivering Coherent ICT Policies in Developing Countries - Richard Heeks, Ping Gao , Angelica Ospina (PDF, 173KB)
- 13/2008 - Online "Gold Farming": Developing-Country Production for Virtual Gameworlds - Richard Heeks (PDF, 149KB)
- 12/2007 - m-Development: Current Issues and Research Priorities - Richard Heeks, Abi Jagun (PDF, 34KB)
- 11/2005 - World Summit on the Information Society: What Did it Achieve for ICTs and Development, What Did it Ignore? - Richard Heeks (PDF, 30KB)
- 10/2005 - Sustainability and the Future of eDevelopment - Richard Heeks (PDF, 34KB)
- 9/2005 - Social Outsourcing of IT Services - Richard Heeks (PDF, 36KB)
- 8/2005 - Offshoring to Africa - Richard Heeks (PDF, 40KB)
- 7/2005 - Overestimating the Global Digital Divide - Richard Heeks (PDF, 41KB)
- 6/2005 - Is the Communication/Rights Agenda Damaging eDevelopment? - Richard Heeks (PDF, 32KB)
- 5/2005 - Foundations of ICTs in Development: Pushing and Pliling - Richard Heeks (PDF, 34KB)
- 4/2005 - Foundations of ICTs in Development: The Onion-Ring Model - Richard Heeks (PDF, 28KB)
- 3/2005 - Foundations of ICTs in Development: The Information Chain - Richard Heeks (PDF, 37KB)
- 2/2005 - Reframing the Role of Telecentres in Development - Richard Heeks (PDF, 37KB)
- 1/2005 - Free and Open Source Software: A Blind Alley for Developing Countries? - Richard Heeks (PDF, 32KB)
Short papers
- 12/2012 - A Model for Assessing IT Impact Sourcing Relationships - Sheng Lu, Brian Nicholson & Richard Heeks (185KB)
- 11/2010 - Development 2.0: Transformative ICT-Enabled Development Models and Impacts -Richard Heeks (182KB)
- 10/2009 - ICTs and the World's Bottom Billion (Richard Heeks) (45KB)
- 9/2008 - Challenging Conventional Views on Mobile Telecommunications Investment: Evidence from Conflict Zones - Agnieszka Konkel & Richard Heeks (77KB)
- 8/2008 - Computer Games and Developing Countries: A Research Agenda - Richard Heeks (55KB)
- 7/2005 - ICTs and the MDGs: On the Wrong Track? - Richard Heeks (42KB)
- 6/2001 - "What Did Giddens And Latour Ever Do For Us?": Academic Writings on Information Systems and Development - Richard Heeks (36KB)
- 5/2000 - Lessons for Development from the New Economy - Richard Heeks (24KB)
- 4/2000 - Analysing E-commerce for Development - Richard Heeks (44KB)
- 3/1998 - Myths of Software Development in Developing Countries - Richard Heeks (25KB)
- 2/1998 - Getting the Most from IT Training Courses for Africa - Richard Heeks (32KB)
- 1/1998 - Information Systems Without Information Technology - Richard Heeks (48KB)