Digital Economies at Global Margins最新文献

Making Sense of Digital Disintermediation and Development: The Case of the Mombasa Tea Auction 数字去中介化与发展的意义:以蒙巴萨茶叶拍卖为例

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0012

Christopher Foster

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The Digitalization of Anti-poverty Programs: Aadhaar and the Reform of Social Protection in India 反贫困项目的数字化:Aadhaar与印度社会保障改革

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0016

引用次数: 2

Changing Connectivity and Digital Economies at Global Margins 改变全球边缘的连通性和数字经济

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0002

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Index 指数

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0027

引用次数: 1

Digital Economies at Global Margins: A Warning from the Dark Side 全球边缘的数字经济:来自黑暗面的警告

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0009

引用次数: 3

Hackathons and the Cultivation of Platform Dependence 黑客马拉松与平台依赖性的培养

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0020

L. Irani

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Platforms at the Margins 边缘平台

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0008

引用次数: 3

“Let the Private Sector Take Care of This”: The Philanthro-Capitalism of Digital Humanitarianism “让私营部门来解决这个问题”:数字人道主义的慈善资本主义

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0015

Ryan Burns

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Development or Divide? Information and Communication Technologies in Commercial Small-Scale Farming in East Africa 发展还是分化?东非商业小规模农业的信息和通信技术

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0013

引用次数: 3

Marginal Benefits at the Global Margins: The Unfulfilled Potential of Digital Technologies 全球边际效益:数字技术未实现的潜力

Digital Economies at Global Margins Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10890.003.0004

引用次数: 1