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Artificial intelligence as planetary assemblages of coloniality: The new power architecture driving a tiered global data economy
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 7 pp.
"We present a framework for viewing artificial intelligence (AI) as planetary assemblages of coloniality that reproduce dependencies in how it co-constitutes and structures a tiered global data economy. We use assemblage thinking to map the coloniality of power to demonstrate how AI stratifies acros
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The Emergence of China's Smart State
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2024), ix, 250 pp.
"China’s emergence as a technology leader has become a major factor in geopolitics, transforming global political and economic relationships. In its bid to achieve digital great power status, China’s government has reformed laws and policies, drastically increased investment, and become more ass
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Le prix des perturbations: Évaluation de l’impact économique des coupures d’Internet au Sénégal en 2023
Internews (2024), 25 pp.
"Ce rapport a constaté une baisse vertigineuse de 1,3 point de pourcentage du produit intérieur brut (PIB) global associé aux coupures d’Internet en juin 2023. Cela se traduit grosso modto par une perte de 76,8 millions de dollars américains (46,86 milliards de francs CFA). Cette perte a princ
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Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
London: WH Allen (2024), x, 303 pp.
"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populati
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Advancing Cloud and Data Infrastructure Markets: Strategic Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Washington, DC: World Bank (2024), xx, 139 pp.
Communications, media and internet concentration in India 2019-2021
Deep Insights
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), iii, 88 pp.
"During the survey period of 2019-2021, the Indian media economy grew by 21% to reach gross revenues of $US 66.52bn (excluding publishing). The overall pattern of growth was unevenly distributed across four component divisions: telecoms and internet infrastructure with growth of 23% (2021 revenues o
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Performing Technocapitalism
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Hans Böckler Stiftung (2024), 298 pp.
"In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev
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The Mobile Economy Asia Pacific 2024
London: GSMA (2024), 50 pp.
Communications, media and internet concentration in Turkey, 2019-2021
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), 54 pp.
"Turkey’s network media economy witnessed substantial growth between 2019 and 2021, especially in the wireless, digital music, digital games, and internet advertising sectors. All told, revenue increased sharply over this period from TRY 65.7 billion to TRY 95.1 billion. This, in turn, was nearly
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The price of the world in your pocket: A price only some can afford. 2024 Device Pricing
Alexandria, VA: Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (2024), 9 pp.
"The median price for a smartphone globally is US$92.59. The lowest regional median price is in Africa, at $60.23, while the highest is $101.88 in the Americas. The median global affordability (defined as price as a percentage of average monthly income) for a smartphone is 11%. Europe has the greate
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Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa
Information Society, volume 40, issue 2 (2024), pp. 136-153
"While much attention has been paid to how China’s rise as a digital superpower could threaten US hegemony over cyberspace, much less has been written on what the Digital Silk Road, or the presence of Chinese tech firms in developing countries more broadly, means for technological upgrading and de
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Digital Progress and Trends Report 2023
Washington, DC: World Bank (2024), xxiv, 149 pp.
"The new series Digital Progress and Trends Report adopts a holistic framework of digitalization, with selective topics examined in depth in each edition. The framework [...] includes both the production and the adoption sides of digital technologies and their interactions. Box ES.1 explains how the
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Communications, media and internet concentration in Mexico, 2019-2021
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), 55 pp.
"The analysis in this report relies on a detailed and comprehensive analysis across 22 distinct markets within three broad sets of industries: (a) Telecommunications and internet access, (b) Online and traditional media services, and (c) Core internet sectors. Through this structured approach, the r
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The supply chain capitalism of AI: A call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through environmental lens
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 17 pp.
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is woven into a supply chain of capital, commodities and human labour that has been neglected in critical debates. Given the current surge in generative AI – which is estimated to drive up the extraction of natural resources such as minerals, fossil fuels or water –
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Uneven Connections: A Partial History of the Mobile Phone in Papua New Guinea
Canberra: ANU Press (2024), xvi, 221 pp.
"Uneven Connections examines the ways in which liberalisation took hold in Papua New Guinea (PNG) when a unit of the Caribbean-based mobile network operator Digicel Group Ltd. seized the opportunity to compete with the state-sponsored incumbent. The book highlights how mobile phones entered the live
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The Mobile Economy Pacific Islands 2023
London: GSMA (2023), 44 pp.
"Mobile technologies underpin digital transformation in the Pacific Islands as authorities take steps to help economies recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and manage threats from climate change and natural disasters. Mobile is the first (in most cases only) form of internet connectivity for many con
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Digital Reset: Redirecting Technologies for the Deep Sustainability Transformation
München: Oekom Verlag; Digitalization for Sustainability (D4S) (2023), 106 pp.
"The Report »Digital Reset« shows how digital technologies can support the quest for such a deep sustainability transformation. The report provides a blueprint for the European Union on how to reconceptualise digitalisation so that it first and foremost contributes to achieving carbon neutrality,
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Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade
Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund (IMF); OECD; United Nations; World Trade Organization (WTO), 2nd ed. (2023), 173 pp.
