The literature on e-governance has highlighted the potential of ICTs to enable good
governance and socioeconomic development by leveraging stakeholders and resources …

Orchestration of digital platform ecosystems has been well examined in the context of
markets and the private sector where an orchestrator is a resourceful firm exploiting …

Digital identity platforms are widely regarded as important means to improve social
protection systems. Yet these platforms have been implicated in the production of a range of …

Ursula Rao a and Vijayanka Nair b aInstitute of Anthropology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig,
Germany; bDepartment of Anthropology and the Center for the Humanities, University of …

Large-scale data systems play a central role in how state bureaucracies come to know and
manage citizens. Such systems are endemically uneven in implementation, producing …

The paper studies the impact of the corona pandemic on the adoption and diffusion of
mobile payments (m-payments) among internal migrant workers in India. These internal …

This book explains why the role of corruption varies greatly between public services,
between people, between national systems of governance, and between measures of …

This paper seeks to illuminate the significance of datafication for anti-poverty programmes,
meaning social protection schemes designed specifically for poor people. The conversion of …

Technology has fractured democracy, and now there's no going back. All around the world,
the fringes have stormed the palace of the elites and unleashed data miners, dark ads and …

It is important that digital biometric identity systems be used by governments with a Do no
Harm mandate, and the establishment of regulatory, enforcement and restorative …