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Mark Graham

Mark Graham is the Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute

July 2024

  • Gulu Town<br>Since 2006 Northern Uganda is quite peaceful. Former war-torn area around Gulu develops well and people stay out after dark and enjoy nightlife. Gulu is becoming the second largest town of Uganda.

    Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour

    Social media content and AI training data are processed in outsource centres in the global south, where long hours, low pay and exposure to disturbing material are the norm

October 2017

  • Abidjan mobile phones

    We’re all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western?

    Mark Graham and Anasuya Sengupta
    Google and Wikipedia have a responsibility to see that their content isn’t skewed – and we users should hold them to account, say researchers Mark Graham and Anasuya Sengupta

April 2015

  • There were as many place names listed for the US as there were for all of Asia combined.

    Datablog
    The hidden biases of Geodata

    Analysis of one of the world’s largest placename databases reveals it is dramatically skewed toward the US’s cities, towns and settlements

June 2013

  • MDG : Computer for students in Kenya : Serena Williams opened her second school in Wee village

    Poverty matters blog
    Kenya's laptops for schools dream fails to address reality

    Mark Graham: Kenya wants to be Africa's digital heart but its e-learning strategy ignores the need for more trained teachers and less inequality

November 2012

  • FS normalised map

    Datablog
    Digital trails of the UK floods - how well do tweets match observations?

    Mapping experts have combined meteorological and social media data to plot data shadows of the UK floods. How well do geolocated tweets correspond to recorded flooding events?

October 2012

  • Twitter and Sandy flooding

    Datablog
    What can Twitter tell us about Hurricane Sandy flooding? Visualised

    How did Americans use Twitter to talk about flooding on the East Coast? Mark Graham on what the data shows

March 2012

  • Computer data.

    Datablog
    Big data and the end of theory?

    Does big data have the answers? Maybe some, but not all, says Mark Graham

January 2012

  • MDG : Digital divide and access to information : Indonesian children packing an Internet shop

    Poverty matters blog
    In a networked world, why is the geography of knowledge still uneven?

    Mark Graham: User-generated internet content is weighted towards the global north; the division of digital labour urgently needs rebalancing

December 2010

  • A New Kind of Globalisation? User-Generated Content and Transparent Production Chains

    Production of the food that we eat and the products that we buy has been globalised at a staggering pace. In an age of transparency and instant access to information, why then do we know so little about the factories and farms that make the things that we consume?

October 2010

  • MDG: Broadband in Africa : A team of engineers lay fibre optic cables , Kenya

    Poverty matters blog
    Will broadband internet establish a new development trajectory for east Africa?

    Mark Graham: After investing heavily in IT, Rwanda and Kenya hope to set up stall in the global economy. Yet their expenditure is a gamble

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