This page presents a selection of my non-paper writing, linked to various articles and debates:
Dec 2024 – What can Hirschman tell us about the digital economy and development? – ICT4Dblog
Aug 2024 – On Global Platforms and Local Capitalisms – Bot Populi
Dec 2023 – The minor rules shaping the development impacts of digital marketplaces. – ICT4Dblog
May 2023 – Aligning digital and industrial policy to foster future industrialization – UNIDO industrial analytics platform
Dec 2022 – Digital tourism and marginal providers after the crisis -ICT4DBlog
May 2021 – Why we must act now to confront the new global digital divide (with Shamel Azmeh) – On Digital Inequality, Policy@Manchester
Sept 2021 – Global transfers: M-Pesa and intellectual property rights – ICT4Dblog
Sept 2020 – Big data and development in India. The hype and the reality – ICT4Dblog
Dec 2019 – Who’s Really Benefitting From SE Asia’s E-commerce Boom? – Sixth Tone
Nov 2019 – Playing catch-up: how latecomer economies joined the digital race – University of Manchester, News
Apr 2019 – What can we learn about e-commerce in Africa from Jumia’s IPO filing? – ICT4Dblog
Mar 2019 – Trade wars are growing over the digital economy – and developing countries are shaping the agenda (with Shamel Azmeh)- The Conversation
Feb 2019 – Digitally removing the middleman for development: Trouble brewing in East African tea? – GDI Blog
Oct 2018 – Policy to Support Digital Trade & the Digital Economy – DIODE project blog
Sept 2018 – Falling Through the Net: The Role of Small and Medium Tourism Businesses in digital Value Chains – Tourism Watch
Aug 2017 – The balancing act of Brexit and digital trade – SPERI Blog, Sheffield
Jan 2016 – The TPP and Silicon Valley’s digital trade agenda (with Shamel Azmeh) – Medium
May 2015 – Thinking about Market Information Systems… – OII blog
Apr 2014 – Low income markets and mobile – The problem of “quality” – Infomediation
Jan 2014 – Scaling new technologies for low income users – Infomediation
Nov 2012 – Why M-Pesa Outperforms Other Developing Country Mobile Money Schemes (with Richard Heeks) – ICT4Dblog