Digital economies at global margins

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Acknowledgments
1: Changing Connectivity and Digital Economies at Global Margins
Opening Essays
	Marginal Benefits at the Global Margins: The Unfulfilled Potential of Digital Technologies
	Toward the Transformative Power of Universal Connectivity
	A Data-Driven Approach to Closing the Internet Inclusion Gap
	Digital Services and Industrial Inclusion: Growing Africa’s Technological Complexity
	Platforms at the Margins
	Digital Economies at Global Margins: A Warning from the Dark Side
	Digital Globality and Economic Margins—Unpacking Myths, Recovering Materialities
I Digitalization at Global Margins
	2: Making Sense of Digital Disintermediation and Development: The Case of the Mombasa Tea Auction
	3: Development or Divide? Information and Communication Technologies in Commercial Small-Scale Farming in East Africa
	4: Digital Inclusion, Female Entrepreneurship, and the Production of Neoliberal Subjects—Views from Chile and Tanzania
	5: “Let the Private Sector Take Care of This”: The Philanthro-Capitalism of Digital Humanitarianism
	6: The Digitalization of Anti-poverty Programs: Aadhaar and the Reform of Social Protection in India
	7: The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD
II Digital Production at Global Margins
	8: Hope and Hype in Africa’s Digital Economy: The Rise of Innovation Hubs
	9: Hackathons and the Cultivation of Platform Dependence
	10: Meeting Social Objectives with Offshore Service Work: Evaluating Impact Sourcing in the Philippines
	11: Digital Labor and Development: Impacts of Global Digital Labor Platforms and the Gig Economy on Worker Livelihoods
	12: Geographic Discrimination in the Gig Economy
	13: Margins at the Center: Alternative Digital Economies in Shenzhen, China
	14: African Economies: Simply Connect? Problematizing the Discourse on Connectivity in Logistics and Communication
Author Affiliations
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