Value creation and free labour in digital development agendas: evidence from Colombia

IF 1.4 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Innovation and Development Pub Date : 2021-11-08 DOI:10.1080/2157930X.2021.1992830

Jean-Marie Chenou, Daniela Forero Sánchez

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The debate on the difference between value creation and value extraction has resurfaced since the 2008 financial crisis. Digitalization further raises the question of the frontier between productive and extractive activities in the data economy. Critical internet studies have developed the concept of free digital labour in order to highlight the issue of value creation and extraction in everyday online activities. While an emerging literature explores the issue of value in the digital age, the consequences in terms of development policies remain insufficiently researched. Against this background, this article analyses National Development Plans in Colombia to investigate the underlying notion of value. It shows that value creation is largely absent from development agendas that focus on access and infrastructure. However, it argues that the concept of digital labour is insufficient to understand the articulation of value creation and development, and the role of the state in the digital age.

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数字发展议程中的价值创造和自由劳动:来自哥伦比亚的证据

自2008年金融危机以来，关于价值创造与价值提取之间差异的争论重新浮出水面。数字化进一步提出了数据经济中生产性活动和采掘性活动之间边界的问题。批判性的互联网研究发展了免费数字劳动的概念，以突出日常在线活动中的价值创造和提取问题。虽然新兴文献探讨了数字时代的价值问题，但发展政策方面的后果仍未得到充分研究。在此背景下，本文分析了哥伦比亚的国家发展计划，以探讨其潜在的价值观念。它表明，在侧重于获取和基础设施的发展议程中，基本上没有创造价值。然而，它认为数字劳动的概念不足以理解价值创造和发展的衔接，以及国家在数字时代的作用。

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Innovation and Development Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： conomic development and growth depend as much on social innovations as on technological advances. However, the discourse has often been confined to technological innovations in the industrial sector, with insufficient attention being paid to institutional and organisational change and to the informal sector which in some countries in the South plays a significant role. Innovation and Development is an interdisciplinary journal that adopts a broad approach to the study of innovation, in all sectors of the economy and sections of society, furthering understanding of the multidimensional process of innovation and development. It provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to innovation, development and their interaction, both in the developed and developing world, with the aim of encouraging sustainable and inclusive growth. The journal encourages articles that approach the problem broadly in line with innovation system perspective focusing on the evolutionary and institutional structure of innovation and development. This focus cuts across the disciplines of Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Science and Technology Policy, Geography and Development Practice. In a section entitled Innovation in Practice, the journal includes short reports on innovative experiments with proven development impact with a view to encouraging scholars to undertake systematic inquiries on such experiments. Brief abstracts of degree awarded PhD theses in the broad area of concern for the journal and brief notes which highlight innovative ways of using internet resources and new databases or software are also published.