Entry by rival app stores on the two currently available mobile operating systems is an exciting potential benefit of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple and Google will need to share the technical specifications of their interfaces with developers and offer them the same...

Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with geo-referenced data from multiple sources on the...