by Global Development Institute | Mar 30, 2017 | Comment
The Development Implications of Digital Economies (DIODE) Strategic Network is a newly funded project which will be led by Professor Richard Heeks. The network received £129,000 as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Global Challenges Research Fund...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 21, 2017 | Events
Eleven academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene seven panels at the annual DSA conference in September. The 2017 Development Studies Association Conference will be held at the University of Bradford from the 6-8th September and will focus...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 16, 2017 | Research Findings
Each month we bring you the latest publications from the researchers at the Global Development Institute. Books Kunal Sen has published a new book with Sabyasachi Kar: The Political Economy of India’s Growth Episodes David Lawson, David Hulme and Lawrence Ado-Kofie...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 10, 2017 | Research Findings
Ritam Sengupta, Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Christopher Foster recently published a new Working Paper entitled ‘Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from India’. You can read the paper, and other Development...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 2, 2017 | Research Findings
By Professor Richard Heeks Taking a longer-term view, the relationship between digital ICTs and international development can be divided into three paradigms – “pre-digital”, “ICT4D”, and “digital development” – that rise and fall over time (see Figure below). The...
