Professor of Digital Development, and Director of the Centre for Digital Development, University of Manchester, UK
Manchester, UK
Joined January 2010
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Richard Heeks retweeted
🚨Job Alert! The MRI is looking for a Scientific Project Officer to support its global mountain research coordination and GEO Mountains activities.
📍 Based in Bern, Switzerland
🕒 Temporary 6-month fixed-term contract
📅 Apply by 5 June 2026
👉 More: weadapt.org/forum/job-openin…
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#CallforPapers on drought dynamics and futures in mountain regions.
How are increasingly frequent, severe, and prolonged droughts in mountains affecting people and ecosystems, and how can we respond?
Mountain Research and Development invites empirical studies on drought processes and their cascading effects, systematic assessments of innovative interventions addressing drought in mountains, as well as review-based agendas for future research, policies, or action.
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The MRI has launched a #survey to check in with the global mountain research community and better understand how the MRI is doing from your perspective.
Help shape the future of the Mountain Research Initiative👉 weadapt.org/forum/have-your-…
#MountainsMatter #OurChangingMountains
Richard Heeks retweeted
What if development studies could also make more space for the affirmative? What if it cultivated a deeper orientation toward hope, creativity, and transformation?
@CDDManchester explores this question.
All @GlobalDevInst news here:
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Passionate about glacier and mountain ecosystem preservation? ❄️🏔️
The Mountain Youth Hub is looking for #Youth Ambassadors to promote the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation 2025.
Apply by 31 January 2025 ➡️ forms.gle/QtnJjcbU1qF6hNKcA
#MountainsMatter #Glaciers2025
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The MRI is looking forward to the International Mountain Conference 2025 and its several focus sessions, workshops, & a side event.
Want to participate in one of our sessions? Submit an abstract before/by 20 February! loom.ly/2bL2tN4 #IMC25 #OurChangingMountains
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As digital devices become more complex, they require more mineral resources.
For resource-rich developing countries, rising mineral demand presents economic opportunities. But they must advance up the value chains rather than just supplying raw materials. unctad.org/der2024
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⭐ This holiday season, #ChooseFairness! Use #Fairwork's tool to find platforms with the fairest working conditions near you. Many fall short, but your choices can drive change. Let’s build a just digital economy together! 🎉 Explore now: fair.work
@oiioxford
Richard Heeks retweeted
How can the Global Digital Compact – a comprehensive framework for global governance of digital technology and artificial intelligence – best incorporate the environmental dimension?
Watch @UNCTAD & @UNEP's event live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k16/k1…
Learn more: ow.ly/7t9e50TFSTi
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🏔️Mountain regions face challenges like food insecurity, biodiversity loss, climate change, and gender inequality—but also opportunities for innovation!
Submit your project for #InternationalMountainDay 2024.
🔗fao.org/international-mounta…
#MountainsMatter
@FAO @UNmountains
Richard Heeks retweeted
📣📣 pre-ICIS workshop CfP alert!
Pre-ICIS SIGGlobDev Workshop, Bangkok, 15 December 2024. Theme: “The shape of ICT4D to Come: Future Perspectives on Digital Development”.
🕰️ deadline: 30 September 2024
Call for Papers: 👉👉 lnkd.in/dbjUqyxj
#ICT4D #ICIS2024
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Are you a woman digital entrepreneur in South Asia? Ready to grow your business and impact your community?
Join our first-ever in-person #eTradeforWomen Masterclass in New Delhi, 2-5 Dec 2024!
Apply today: etradeforall.org/masterclass…
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📢Call for Collaborators! We're looking for partners in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, and The Philippines to support research and policy engagement toward fair work in the platform economy. Apply by April 18! Learn more👉 fair.work/en/fw/blog/call-fo…
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🚨Hot off the press! Advance copies of new @ADRNorg book landed ahead of April 18th publication & then launch at #DRIF24. First ever book dedicated to #disinformation across Africa. 12 scholars from 10 countries document & analyse key episodes of digital disinfo & #DigitalRights
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The EU Platform Work Directive recognises many issues that platform workers face. Yet, it still comes short in addressing them.
Read our policy response here: fair.work/wp-content/uploads…
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The @churchofengland has officially endorsed and commended the five #Fairwork principles for a fair future of work in the digital age 🦾
Your organisation can join the Church of England in signing the Fairwork Pledge. It's free and easy to do: fair.work/pledge @oiioxford
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In 2023, through engagement with Fairwork, companies made 134 different changes to their policies in ways that benefitted workers 🙌
Find out who in our annual report 👀 👉 fair.work/annual-report-2023
Here’s to another year of positive changes in the digital economy 🥳
Richard Heeks retweeted
There comes a great panel on #ICT4D futures with Pamela Abbott, @janasrin, Sundeep Sahay & Pitso Tsibolane. The great work of @TowardsFairWork being discussed #IFIPJWC2023
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The @OfficialUoM has created fully-funded scholarships for 20 students who are fleeing war and persecution.
⏰ Applications open on 1 March 2024 and close on 15 April 2024, to start studying in September.
This and other scholarships from DSA members ⤵️
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