What Makes an Ideal Partner? African Libraries and Neoliberal Discourses in International Development

February 25, 2025

Public Libraries and Development across Sub-Saharan Africa: Overcoming a Problem of Perception

Volunteer geographic information in the Global South: barriers to local implementation of mapping projects across Africa

Benefits of crowdsourcing for libraries: A case study from Africa

Data challenges for public libraries: African perspectives and the social context of knowledge

Benefits of Crowdsourcing for Libraries in the Global South: A Case Study from Africa

Making Ends Meet in a Pandemic: African Library Initiatives During COVID‐19

‘The tears don’t give you funding’: data neocolonialism in development in the Global South

“The tears don’t give you funding”: Data neocolonialism in development in the Global South

February 20, 2025

This paper examines the knowledge politics and cultures that shape data relations between international aid organisations and Global South public institutions, taking African libraries as an example. International organisations increasingly rely on data from the Global South, purportedly as a resource for development, which has raised valid concerns about the emergence of new practices of…

How games can support misinformation education: A sociocultural perspective

October 16, 2024