Impact Initiative - Health: Recent submissions
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Broadband internet and expectations of altered development trajectories for Kenya
(2011)Only a year ago, East Africa was the last major region on Earth without fibre-optic broadband Internet connections. People were forced to rely on painfully slow and prohibitively expensive satellite connections. However, ... -
The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa: Value Chains and Networks of Connectivity-Based Enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda
(2015)Internet connectivity is widely considered to be a game changer for knowledge economies of developing countries. The arrival of submarine fibre-optic underwater cables in East Africa in 2009 and 2010 is seen by many as a ... -
The Internet and Tourism in Rwanda: Value Chains and Networks of Connectivity-Based Enterprises in Rwanda
(2015)East Africa was the world’s last major region without submarine fibre-optic broadband internet access, and until the summer of 2009 had been forced to rely on slow and costly satellite connections for access. However, the ... -
UNASUR: construcción de una diplomacia regional en materia de salud a través de políticas sociales
(2015)La lucha contra la pobreza y el acceso a mejores condiciones de vida, incluido el reconocimiento de derechos, son desafíos persistentes que afectan de manera desproporcionada a los países en desarrollo y sus ... -
Connectivity and the Tea Sector in Rwanda: Value Chains and Networks of Connectivity-Based Enterprises in Rwanda
(2015)East Africa was the world’s last major region without submarine fibre-optic broadband internet access, and until the summer of 2009 had been forced to rely on slow and costly satellite connections for access. However, the ... -
The Impacts of Broadband Internet on the Value Chain of the Tourism Sector in Kenya
(2013)The tourism sector is regarded as the second largest source of foreign exchange revenue in Kenya. Kenya has witnessed revolutionary development of ICTs, especially the recent development in internet with the arrival of ... -
The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa: Value Chains and Networks of Connectivity-Based Enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda
(2015)Internet connectivity is widely considered to be a game changer for knowledge economies of developing countries. The arrival of submarine fibre-optic underwater cables in East Africa in 2009 and 2010 is seen by many as a ... -
The Impacts of Broadband Internet and Related Technologies on the Value Chain of the Tourism Sector in Kenya
(2013)This paper provides initial findings from a preliminary analysis of the evidence using Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model as an analytical lens. The paper establishes that broadband internet and related ICTs have brought ... -
Local Institutions and Armed Group Presence in Colombia
(2014)This paper investigates the causal impact of non-state armed groups on local institutions during the armed conflict in Colombia, and tests competing theoretical mechanisms that may shape such effect. Our identification ... -
Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2014)This piece draws on some of our previous empirical research to reflect on what connectivity means to inclusion in the ‘network society.’ Connectivity certainly isn’t a sufficient condition for inclusion and equity, and we ... -
Ethical consumption in Chile and Brazil
(2012)Ariztia presented the first findings of an ongoing multi-national research project ‘Sustainable Choices’. Chile and Brazil are former developing countries which now have growing ethical consumption movements. Ethical ...