In discussions about the locations that make up the key productive nodes of the digital economy, Africa workers rarely gets a mention. 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...

In this article, we examine how remote gig workers in Africa exercise agency to earn and sustain their livelihoods in the gig economy. In addition to the rewards reaped by gig workers, they also face significant risks, such as precarious working conditions and algorithmic workplace monitoring...

The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces,...

The aim of this paper is to develop a new model of ‘Virtual Production Networks’ (VPNs), building on the Global Production Network (GPN) approach. We argue that the manner in which embeddedness has been utilized within the GPN paradigm is possibly ill-suited to arenas of virtual production...

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