I am a digital geographer and data scientist at the Oxford Internet Institute , where I research the information geographies of Wikipedia, Google Maps, and other large online knowledge platforms.
Together with my coauthor Mark Graham I am currently finishing a book for Pluto Press , and contributing to an upcoming report by Whose Knowledge on the state of the internet's languages, collecting evidence that the global majority is underserved by today's internet platforms. In earlier work I produced analyses of the economic geography of darknet marketplaces .
I completed a PhD in computer science at the ICRI Cities at University College London, where I researched community engagement for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), a volunteer initiative with thousands of contributors. This was largely quantitative work, relying on the "hard" evidence of contributor data traces, but also the "soft" evidence of knowing the practices and motivations of the community. Four studies have been published as papers in major academic venues, and two of them have received a