TY - JOUR
T1 - Digital transformation at the margins
T2 - a battle for the soul of self-sovereignty
AU - Qureshi, Sajda
N1 - Funding Information:
Sincere thanks to Information Technology for Development editors Nancy Pouloudi, Doug Vogel, and James Pick for their detailed, insightful, and very valuable comments on earlier versions of this editorial. Thank you to Rajesh Veeraraghavan for his corrections on my understanding of his concepts on patching development. Special thanks to Mark Graham for introducing me to the possibilities and constraints of the planetary labour market for those at the global margins. To my colleague Nicolas Lalone goes my gratitude for his detailed comments and explanation that the preferred way to refer to disasters as all disasters are human-created and not natural. Natural and technological hazards represent those events that create the devastation of human-created settlements referred to as a ‘Lack of control’ or ‘loss of control’. All their thoughtful comments are very much appreciated as it is the work of editors and reviewers like them that the quality of papers published here continues to rise.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - As the world watches millions of refugees whose livelihoods ripped apart by deadly missile attacks, this editorial investigates the forces that lead to the marginalization of populations as they battle for their sovereignty from the margins. It draws upon current publications to offer insights into the transformation of the lives of those residing in world's economic margins. Places that were once economic peripheries are now at the center of the digital transformation of the global economy as it changes how those at the margins can attain their freedoms. Insights from patching development and technologies of the oppressed offer unique insights into ways out of the structural oppression. Insights from these and papers published in this issue offer contributions to what we know about digital transformation in the context of socio-economic and human development and how the battle for the soul of self-sovereignty is won by digital transformation at the margins.
AB - As the world watches millions of refugees whose livelihoods ripped apart by deadly missile attacks, this editorial investigates the forces that lead to the marginalization of populations as they battle for their sovereignty from the margins. It draws upon current publications to offer insights into the transformation of the lives of those residing in world's economic margins. Places that were once economic peripheries are now at the center of the digital transformation of the global economy as it changes how those at the margins can attain their freedoms. Insights from patching development and technologies of the oppressed offer unique insights into ways out of the structural oppression. Insights from these and papers published in this issue offer contributions to what we know about digital transformation in the context of socio-economic and human development and how the battle for the soul of self-sovereignty is won by digital transformation at the margins.
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U2 - 10.1080/02681102.2022.2062291
DO - 10.1080/02681102.2022.2062291
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85133066106
VL - 28
SP - 215
EP - 229
JO - Information Technology for Development
JF - Information Technology for Development
SN - 0268-1102
IS - 2
ER -