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Digital labour at economic margins: African workers and the global information economy

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  • Mohammad Amir Anwar
  • Mark Graham

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The main aim of this briefing is to make visible the invisible and bring light to the role African workers are playing in developing key emergent and everyday digital technologies such as autonomous vehicles, machine learning systems, next-generation search engines and recommendations systems. Once we acknowledge that many contemporary digital technologies rely on a lot of human labour to drive their interfaces, we can begin to piece together what the new global division of labour for digital work looks like and build a greater socio-political response (both at the global and local scale) to make some of these value chains more transparent, ethical and rewarding.

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  • Mohammad Amir Anwar & Mark Graham, 2020. "Digital labour at economic margins: African workers and the global information economy," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(163), pages 95-105, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:47:y:2020:i:163:p:95-105
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2020.1728243
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    1. Iazzolino, Gianluca, 2021. "Going Karura: colliding subjectivities and labour struggle in Nairobi’s gig economy," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 110950, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    4. Naudé, Wim & Bray, Amy & Lee, Celina, 2021. "Crowdsourcing Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Findings from a Machine Learning Contest," IZA Discussion Papers 14545, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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