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ICTs and the Urban-Rural Divide: Can Online Labour Platforms Bridge the Gap?
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2019
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Information and communication technologies have long been predicted to make cities as hubs of economic organisation obsolete and spread economic opportunities to rural areas. However, the actual trend in the 21st century has been the opposite. Knowledge spillovers have fuelled urbanisation and pulled job-seekers into large cities, increasing the gap to deprived rural areas. We argue that new assemblages of technologies and social practices, so-called 'online labour platforms', have recently
doi:10.31235/osf.io/wbxd7
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