Richard Heeks@CDDManchester

Professor of Digital Development, and Director of the Centre for Digital Development, University of Manchester, UK

 Manchester, UK
cdd.manchester.ac.uk/
Joined January 2010
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Context and Digital Start-Ups in the Global South ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #DigitalEconomy #DigitalEnterprise

Context and Digital Start-Ups in the Global South

How does context affect new digital start-ups in the global South? The open-access paper, “Embeddedness of Digital Start-Ups in Development Contexts” provides some answers, using the Triple Embedde…

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How can #Earthobservation data better support adaptation in #mountain regions? New post traces the chain from data → information → decisions → action → results, drawing lessons from cases in the Himalaya, Andes and Alps. linkedin.com/pulse/climate-a…

Climate Adaptation in Mountain Areas: Lessons from Earth Observation Cases

What lessons can be learned from current use of earth observation data to support climate adaptation planning in mountain areas? Before we get to that, let me first review why this question is...

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Positive Deviance: A Data-Powered Approach to the Covid-19 Response ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #PositiveDeviance #PositiveDigitalDevelopment

Positive Deviance: A Data-Powered Approach to the Covid-19 Response

Nations around the world are struggling with their response to the Covid-19 pandemic.  In particular, they seek guidance on what works best in terms of preventive measures, treatments, and public h…

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How to research “positive digital development” using variants of the appreciative inquiry approach: ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2026… #ICT4D #PositiveDigitalDevelopment #AppreciativeInquiry

Methodologies for Positive Digital Development: Variants of Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry offers a natural methodology for positive digital development, but what about criticisms that it is too rose-tinted or a-political? This post explores two variants that respond…

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Four failures, five objectives and the policy instruments to match: a short video on how governments can build genuinely #inclusiveinnovation systems. Free paper linked piped.video/CMoaWdlWKIk #InnovationPolicy #DigitalDevelopment

Policies for Inclusive Innovation: What Governments Actually Need to Do

Why do so many innovations aimed at the poor never reach them, or f...

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Ride-hailing Platform Asymmetries between Riders and Driver-partners in Lagos, #Nigeria ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #GigWork #GigEconomy

Ride-hailing Platform Asymmetries between Riders and Driver-partners in Lagos, Nigeria.

Platform companies, with the help of data, have the potential to formalise the processes of transport systems in global South cities, especially in African cities which are characterised with infor…

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Why do so many innovations aimed at the poor never reach them, or fail once they do? My new short video explains what governments need to do to make innovation inclusive. piped.video/CMoaWdlWKIk #InclusiveInnovation #ICT4D

Policies for Inclusive Innovation: What Governments Actually Need to Do

Why do so many innovations aimed at the poor never reach them, or f...

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Six Good Practices for Digital Inclusion: Lessons from Cumbria cumbriadigitalfutures.wordpr…

Six Good Practices for Digital Inclusion: Lessons from Cumbria

A study with the Cumbria Digital Inclusion Network identified six best practices for effective digital inclusion: strengthening digital foundations, facilitating support, providing physical spaces,…

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Rural #Resilience Impact of ICTs-in-Agriculture ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2020… #AgTech #ICT4D

Rural Resilience Impact of ICTs-in-Agriculture

What impact do ICT-in-agriculture projects have on rural resilience? To cope with short-term shocks (e.g. conflict, economic crisis) and long-term trends (e.g. climate change), rural areas in devel…

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Addressing Institutional Voids in Nigeria’s Agricultural Finance Markets through Agri-finance Platforms ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2019… #FinTech #ICT4D #Nigeria

Addressing Institutional Voids in Nigeria’s Agricultural Finance Markets through Agri-finance Pla...

In my previous blog “Crowdfarming: Platform-enabled Investment in Nigerian Agriculture”, I talked about how digital platforms are being mainstreamed into agricultural finance markets in Nigeria. Th…

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New paper: “Evaluating the Development Impact of Digital Platform Work through the Capability Approach” journal.icter.org/index.php/… #GigEconomy #PlatformWork #DigitalLabour #DigitalDevelopment #CapabilityApproach #ICT4D
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ICTs and Precision Development: Towards Personalised Development ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2019… #ICT4D #DigitalDevelopment

ICTs and Precision Development: Towards Personalised Development

Are ICTs about to deliver a new type of socio-economic development: personalised development? ICTs can only have a significant development impact if they work at scale; touching the lives of thousa…

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What makes for effective digital inclusion? My study with the Cumbria Digital Inclusion Network identifies six good practices from the report, People, Purpose, Partnerships & Place: Lessons for Digital Inclusion from Cumbria linkedin.com/pulse/six-good-… #DigitalInclusion #Cumbria

Six Good Practices for Digital Inclusion: Lessons from Cumbria

What makes for effective digital inclusion? My recent study with the Cumbria Digital Inclusion Network sought to answer this question through interviews with 17 of its most active members. From their...

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How can we research and design for better digital futures? One answer comes from Appreciative Inquiry: ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2026… #ICT4D

Methodologies for Positive Digital Development: Appreciative Inquiry

Positive digital development calls for approaches that start from strengths rather than problems. This post introduces Appreciative Inquiry and its 4-D cycle, Discovery, Dream, Design and Destiny, …

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Digital financial inclusion in ten African countries: foregone digital dividends ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2019… #DigitalInclusion #FinTech

Digital financial inclusion in ten African countries: foregone digital dividends?

The story of mobile money in Africa, such as Mpesa, is one of the success stories to have arisen from the continent in recent years. A World Bank report in 2016, featured mobile money services, tog…

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Good #inclusiveinnovation policy needs a shift in worldviews, seeing marginalised groups as both producers and consumers of innovation This post makes the case for collaborative, experimental "Policy Collaboratories" ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2016… #ICT4D

Policies for Inclusive Innovation

Inclusive innovation, creating goods and services for and by marginalised groups, faces failures in development, design, diffusion, and use. A working paper outlines five policy objectives to addre…

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Financial Inclusion and Institutional Voids: Are Digital Platforms a Solution ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2019… #FinTech

Financial Inclusion and Institutional Voids: Are Digital Platforms a Solution?

“What drives development” has long been a fundamental question for many scholars and policymakers. One consensus reached is that financial inclusion – access to and use of formal financial se…

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Trust Issues and Ride-Hailing Platforms in Lagos, #Nigeria ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2019… #GigWork #GigEconomy #RideHailing

Trust Issues and Ride-Hailing Platforms in Lagos, Nigeria.

The idea of building trust is often central to the adoption and use of technology platforms in general such that the processes and governance of these platforms ought to align with the realities of…

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The Quest for the Digitisation of Education in Developing Countries: Are we Forgetting Teachers ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2019… #EdTech

The Quest for the Digitisation of Education in Developing Countries: Are we Forgetting Teachers?

The development of every country partly depends on how strong and reliable its educational system is to produce the best minds to innovate and bring new solutions to that country’s challenges. Ofte…

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