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Making sense of BPO in East Africa
Fieldwork in Nairobi and Kigali has been a challenging delight. Talking to strangers is a hobby that I unfortunately picked up from my sociologist mother, who routinely starts conversations with people...
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“We wanted to show Kenya what it means to be a democratic nation”: Nairobi...
Over the past two weeks, two considerably nice things happened. First the Rift Valley held its first ‘Nairobi Forum’. They invited Ken Menkhaus, Amal Ismail, Jabril Abdulla and Matt Bryden to discuss...
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Moving jobs, moving workers: examining the threats and opportunities of...
I have a panel at ECAS (European Conference on African Studies) 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 26 to 28, 2013. It examines the threats and opportunities of Africa’s changing relationship with...
View ArticlePresentation at the new ihub seminar series in Nairobi
I am presenting next Tuesday, the 29th of January at a new seminar series at the ihub in Nairobi: ‘The Nairobi Research Buzz’. My presentation will give a brief overview of the Oxford-Nairobi-Butare...
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Postcards from Rwanda
Last week I was in Rwanda for our project’s outreach meetings: a chance to share our preliminary findings and ideas with our research participants. My Uncle Martin asked me to send him a postcard and...
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New Article: ‘We do our bit in our own space’: DAL Group and the development...
The Journal of Modern African Studies has published my paper about the Sudanese company DAL Group and the development of consumer driven ‘enclave economies’. Check out the abstract below or visit...
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New Article: Imagining a Silicon Savannah? Technological and Conceptual...
Mark beat me to it on the blogroll, but we have just had our paper about Kenya’s ‘Silicon Savannah’ published in the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. I have pasted...
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Are information services ‘disintermediated’ and ‘disembedded’ from place and...
Are information services ‘disintermediated’ and ‘disembedded’ from place and social relations? In this two part blog, I want to reflect on our recent workshops with BPO/ITES managers in Kenya and...
View ArticleAre information services ‘disintermediated’ and ‘disembedded’ from place and...
In this two-part blog, I am asking to what extent information based services are disintermediated and disembedded from social relations and place. In other words, are these kinds of services, by virtue...
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New Blogpost on Oii’s Policy and Internet Blog: Big Data and Informal...
Hello everyone, I don’t want to double blog myself but I wrote a blogpost on the Oxford Internet Institute’s Policy and Internet Blog on the implications of big data on measuring African informal...
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