New #OpenAccess critical commentary paper by Prince Guma, Jethron Ayumbah Akallah and Jack Ong’iro Odeo: 'Plug-in urbanism: City building and the parodic guide of new infrastructure in Africa' ow.ly/xblR50NmssY #urbanism #infrastructure #Africa #NairobiExpressway

Join the Digitising the Periphery team 22 May for their 2023 Symposium! They'll discuss the impact of digital infrastructures on urban peripheries and the resulting social inequalities. Register now:

Less than a week left for our 'Digitising the Periphery' Symposium in London as part of Digitising the Periphery project funded by The British Academy The symposium will launch the ‘Pathways to Digital democracy’ pamphlet. All welcome but please sign up below. digitisingperiphery.wordpress.com/symposium-2/

Start of an exciting day at the Digitising the Periphery Brit.Academy event led by Ayona Datta moved to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and colleagues examining how communities utilise new digital tools to deal with complex urban problems UCL Geography UCL CASA

Kicking off the ‘Digitising the Periphery’ symposium by the Digitising the Periphery project

Pleased to join the The British Academy Symposium Digitising the Periphery Pathways to Digital Democracy at UCL Geography led by Ayona Datta moved to @ayonadatta.bsky.social . Nice to meet Claire Mercer Mark Tewdwr-Jones Tom Cowan Dr Miguel Kanai ABDUL SHABAN @FennaImara Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social Keya Prince Guma

Very happy to have our first paper accepted from this project. 👇

Calling all scholars and researchers interested in the confluence of digitalisation and the state! The Digitalising State Symposium will explore new modes of governance, temporal and spatial dimensions, and methodological approaches to this emerging force regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/di…

📢 Don't miss the final panel discussion of the day! 🎙️🤝 'Methodological approaches to the digitalising state' with our brilliant team of postdoc researchers @FennaImara Mariana Reyes Jesus Flores Neha Gupta and @Dennis_Mbugua_M diving deep into exciting research methods.

📢NEW #OPENACCESS PUB: 'The informational periphery: territory, logistics and people in the margins of a digital age' My AsianGeoJournal plenary lecture in #AAG2023 where I argue for a 'logistics turn' in undertstanding the periphery in a digital age. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New #openaccess publication by PI Ayona Datta moved to @ayonadatta.bsky.social on a 'logistics turn' in the urban periphery. Drawing upon work conducted as part of the Digitising the periphery project and funded by The British Academy

📢Delighted to announce that UCL Press has offered us a contract on our new book 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the urban in a digital age' edited by @FennaImara and yours truly. More information 👇 regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/bo…

🌐Earlier this month, the 'Digitalising State' Symposium, hosted by ERC_Regional Futures, delved deep into the impact of digitalisation on state politics, governance, and urban landscapes. Discover key insights and explore the full report here #DigitalState2023 #uclgeography #ucl

📢Delighted to announce that 'Sorting paper: The archival labour of digitising land records in Kenya', co-authored with Dennis Muthama British Institute in Eastern Africa is now published in The Geographical Journal Funded by European Research Council (ERC) as part of ERC_Regional Futures project UCL Geography rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/79FFK3R4…