👇Don't miss Evans Tindana Awuni 's research insights on the political and socio-economic impact of digitalization in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa this Thursday 🤓

The #EIPCC graduate center on policymaking in contested contexts went for their annual 2-day retreat. On the agenda: successful conferencing, getting published and navigating academia. 🔥🎓🔥

Join us for this year’s first EIPCC guest talk by Prof. Dr. Clara Brandi of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and IDOS_research on "International Trade and Environmental Protection: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Governance". 🗓️January 11, 4-6 pm via Webex: bit.ly/3iwh7M3

Sustainable #peace requires shifts in 'war mentalities' within a state's security forces. Alejandra Ortiz-Ayala revisits post-war militaries in this week's blog: reflecting on #Colombia's peace process, and continuities in soldiers' wartime attitudes... 🇨🇴🤝👇 civilwarpaths.org/2023/01/04/war…

📢Call for Abstracts: Digital Inclusion:fostering affordable, accessible and assistive ICTs I'll be hosting a panel in the 6th International Conference on Public Policy in Toronto. Deadline: 31.01.2023 Feel free to distribute the call among your peers. Universität Erfurt Willy Brandt School of Public Policy @unierfurt

#WACSI’s new research report '𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚.' Here are the #highlights. Thanks to mott Foundation. Full report: bit.ly/CivilSocietyDi…

#ECAS2023 Day 3! #AEGIS CRG Africa in the World's Panel on Digital public infrastructure & future of African statehood. Evans Awuni Universität Erfurt: Ghana's digitalisation programme has implications for inequalities beyond connectivity, including skills, hence also for future of work

🎉Exciting news! Our outstanding #MPP candidates – Paulina, Linda & Shreesh clinched the prestigious Digital Change Marker fellowship. What achievement! Hats off to the innovative efforts of Digital Learning Lab Willy Brandt School of Public Policy @unierfurt that laid the foundation for this incredible success

First publication of @PolDigWork - Politics and the Future of Work in Middle Income Countries. We use a field survey in Ghana investigating the motives & attitudes towards automation, robots and digitalization. You can download the pubication here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

First, and foremost, we find that Ghanaians tend to be much more optimistic about the use of technology in the work place than most Europeans. They see it as a form of leapfrogging and not to depend on old and problem-ridden technologies such as landlines, postal services etc.

Second, we use a survey experiment to see whether simple priming makes people sensitive to potential negative effects such job loss etc. Turns out that they are not. Rather positive primes make people even more optimistic.

Third, we see interesting contrasts. In some segments it is rather the younger and more educated population who is more afraid of job loss, arguably because they work in sectors with more technological exposure.

Fourth, and finally, unlike most studies in this area we also include open-ended items to ask for the motives of the people will answering our survey. This gives a fascinating picture of what people associate with the future of work, both positively and negatively.

A nice blogpost on our PolDigWork paper on tech optimism and the future of work in Ghana: blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/20…

📚Publication Alert Digital inequalities in N-Africa: Examining employment & socioeconomic well-being in Morocco & Tunisia. Coauthor Evans Tindana Awuni Willy Brandt School of Public Policy Universität Erfurt @unierfurt Emphasis: Need to address persistent digital disparities rooted in socioeconomic factors 4 equitable future

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