@CDDManchester

Professor of Digital Development, and Director of the Centre for Digital Development, University of Manchester, UK

 Manchester, UK
cdd.manchester.ac.uk/
Joined January 2010
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Comment les technologies digitales peuvent-elles contribuer à la lutte contre le #changementclimatique dans les pays en développement? Notre étude identifie quatre rôles clés des TIC : atténuation, suivi, adaptation et stratégie niccd.org/devoiler-les-liens… #ICT4D
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Revisiting “Leapfrogging” in a Platformised World ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2021… #DigitalPlatforms #ICT4D

Revisiting “Leapfrogging” in a Platformised World

What difference do digital platforms make to the long-standing argument about “leapfrogging” of development by developing countries?[1] The idea that latecomer nations could accelerate their passag…

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Framework to analyse the relationship between ICTs and #climatechange From the report, “Unveiling the Links between ICTs and Climate Change in Developing Countries”: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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How the literature on ICTs, #climatechange and development has grown over time From the report, “Unveiling the Links between ICTs and Climate Change in Developing Countries”: niccd.org/unveiling-the-link…
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Digital trade and global governance of the digital economy ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #DigitalTrade #DigitalEconomy

Digital trade and global governance of the digital economy

It is easy to forget that a decade ago, the digital economy was tiny in most countries. This is changing, and in many regions accelerated by the COVID crisis. The global growth of the digital econo…

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Climate-tech debates can overlook developing-country priorities. This study explores how ICTs can support climate adaptation, from environmental monitoring and information access to livelihoods, participation and decision-making: researchgate.net/publication… #ClimateAdaptation #ICT4D
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🏔 Digital tech is transforming research on hill and mountain regions, but at what cost? 📡 This new book chapter critiques the trend and proposes a new approach to digitally-enabled research on mountain regions Read now: link.springer.com/chapter/10… #UplandsResearch #ICT4D

Digitally-Enabled Uplands Research: Review, Critique and Future Princi

Digitally-enabled uplands research – the use of new digital datasets, techniques and technologies to investigate hill and mountain areas – is on the rise. This paper reviews this use within a bounded...

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How can digital technologies help address climate change in developing countries? Our scoping study maps four key roles for ICTs – mitigation, monitoring, adaptation and strategy – and identifies priorities for future research: niccd.org/unveiling-the-link… #ICT4D #ClimateChange
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What does the gig economy look like through a development lens? Our new paper applies Sen's capability approach to Uber and Zomato workers in India: some freedoms gained, many more constrained. journal.icter.org/index.php/… #GigEconomy #ICT4D
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Big data and development in India. The hype and the reality ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #BigData #D4D #India

Big data and development in India. The hype and the reality

Many around the world celebrated the agreement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a new agenda for transformative development by 2030. But, practitioners and policy makers were left sc…

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How can #Earthobservation data better support adaptation in #mountain regions? New post traces the chain from data → information → decisions → action → results, drawing lessons from cases in the Himalaya, Andes and Alps. ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2026…

Climate Adaptation in Mountain Areas: Lessons from Earth Observation Cases

Earth observation data is increasingly used to fill the environmental data gaps that constrain climate adaptation planning in mountain areas. But what makes it genuinely useful in practice? Drawing…

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How Widespread are Digital Water Payments in #Ghana? ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #DigitalWater #FinTech #WaterTech

How Widespread are Digital Water Payments in Ghana?

Digital systems are seen as important elements in the governance and management of the water sector. For instance, systems such as digital meters, IoT applications, digital payments, etc can signif…

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Context and Digital Start-Ups in the Global South ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #DigitalEconomy #DigitalEnterprise

Context and Digital Start-Ups in the Global South

How does context affect new digital start-ups in the global South? The open-access paper, “Embeddedness of Digital Start-Ups in Development Contexts” provides some answers, using the Triple Embedde…

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How can #Earthobservation data better support adaptation in #mountain regions? New post traces the chain from data → information → decisions → action → results, drawing lessons from cases in the Himalaya, Andes and Alps. linkedin.com/pulse/climate-a…

Climate Adaptation in Mountain Areas: Lessons from Earth Observation Cases

What lessons can be learned from current use of earth observation data to support climate adaptation planning in mountain areas? Before we get to that, let me first review why this question is...

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Positive Deviance: A Data-Powered Approach to the Covid-19 Response ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #PositiveDeviance #PositiveDigitalDevelopment

Positive Deviance: A Data-Powered Approach to the Covid-19 Response

Nations around the world are struggling with their response to the Covid-19 pandemic.  In particular, they seek guidance on what works best in terms of preventive measures, treatments, and public h…

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How to research “positive digital development” using variants of the appreciative inquiry approach: ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2026… #ICT4D #PositiveDigitalDevelopment #AppreciativeInquiry

Methodologies for Positive Digital Development: Variants of Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry offers a natural methodology for positive digital development, but what about criticisms that it is too rose-tinted or a-political? This post explores two variants that respond…

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Four failures, five objectives and the policy instruments to match: a short video on how governments can build genuinely #inclusiveinnovation systems. Free paper linked youtu.be/CMoaWdlWKIk #InnovationPolicy #DigitalDevelopment

Policies for Inclusive Innovation: What Governments Actually Need to Do

Why do so many innovations aimed at the poor never reach them, or f...

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Ride-hailing Platform Asymmetries between Riders and Driver-partners in Lagos, #Nigeria ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #GigWork #GigEconomy

Ride-hailing Platform Asymmetries between Riders and Driver-partners in Lagos, Nigeria.

Platform companies, with the help of data, have the potential to formalise the processes of transport systems in global South cities, especially in African cities which are characterised with infor…

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Why do so many innovations aimed at the poor never reach them, or fail once they do? My new short video explains what governments need to do to make innovation inclusive. youtu.be/CMoaWdlWKIk #InclusiveInnovation #ICT4D

Policies for Inclusive Innovation: What Governments Actually Need to Do

Why do so many innovations aimed at the poor never reach them, or f...

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Six Good Practices for Digital Inclusion: Lessons from Cumbria cumbriadigitalfutures.wordpr…

Six Good Practices for Digital Inclusion: Lessons from Cumbria

A study with the Cumbria Digital Inclusion Network identified six best practices for effective digital inclusion: strengthening digital foundations, facilitating support, providing physical spaces,…

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