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Digital Innovation & Transformation

Publications, Projects, Presentations

Unlocking Local Digital Economies through Tech Hubs

LINK Public Policy Paper on the role of rural tech hubs and community networks in the transition to local digital economies, by Magoro, Abrahams, Burke, Magoro, Masonta, Milne and Shilenge.

Digital Skillshare Project

This two-year project, run by the LINK Centre in partnership with six other organisations and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is exploring dimensions of digital governance in order to identify opportunities for investment and new initiatives.

Working Paper: Digital Customs Transformation

A paper by LINK's Luci Abrahams and Marke Burke and tralac's Trudy Hartzenberg, entitled "Digital Customs Transformation for Effective Trade Facilitation and Revenue Collection", prepared for the UJ SARChI Chair in Industrial Development.

International Experience in Open Digital Governance

A research report by Luci Abrahams and Mark Burke that explores Open Digital Government from an international perspective.

Innovation Entanglement at Three South African Tech Hubs

An article by LINK Director Luci Abrahams on findings from research conducted at Bandwidth Barn Khayelitsha, Workshop 17, and the Wits Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct.

Assessing the Digital Economy: Aims, Frameworks, Pilots, Results, and Lessons

An article by retired LINK Centre Visiting Associate Professor Nagy K. Hanna in the Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Digital Transformation in South Africa��s Short-Term Insurance Sector

LINK Master's graduate Andrew J. Moodley's findings from research into insurers’ engagement with internet of things (IoT) and insurtech.

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Structuring SA��s Digital Government: The Road Not Traveled?

An op-ed piece in South Africa's Business Day by LINK Director Luci Abrahams and LINK Reseach Associate Mark Burke.

The Maker Movement in Gauteng Province, South Africa

A Working Paper co-authored by Erika Kraemer-Mbula (of University of Johannesburg and Tshwane University of Technology) and LINK's Chris Armstrong.

2016 TPRM Certificate Course

Innovation for a World in Transition: LINK-JCSE Seminar

A presentation by Johan Schot, Director of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University, to a seminar convened by LINK and the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE).

Informatics and Digital Transformations: AJIC Issue 18

A Thematic Issue of the LINK open access academic journal AJIC, including articles on gamification, biodiversity informatics, online social capital, and development informatics.

Mastering Digital Transformation: Towards a Smarter Society, Economy, City and Nation

A groundbreaking book by LINK's Nagy K. Hanna, published by Emerald.

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