I am an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Sussex Business School. My research examines how digital technologies are reshaping work, entrepreneurship, organisations and economic participation, particularly in Africa and other developing-country contexts.

Much of my work begins with a simple concern: technological transformation cannot be understood independently of the societies in which it takes place. Digital platforms, artificial intelligence, digital identity systems, financial technologies and other innovations interact with existing institutions, infrastructure, labour markets, cultural practices and everyday economic realities. Understanding those interactions is central to designing digital systems and policies that genuinely expand economic opportunity.

My research has therefore focused particularly on digital work, platform economies, digital entrepreneurship and the adoption and use of technology under conditions of institutional and infrastructural constraint. I am interested not only in whether technologies are adopted, but in what people actually do with them: how workers adapt to digital platforms, how entrepreneurs improvise when infrastructure fails, how cultural ideas shape behaviour in digital environments, and how public policy can respond to technological change without importing assumptions that do not fit local realities.

Nigeria and Africa have been important settings for much of this work. Over several years, I have studied digital workers, entrepreneurs and businesses operating across rapidly changing technological environments. This research has led me to think more broadly about some of the questions facing developing economies: how technology can contribute to productive employment, how informal economic activity can become more visible without destroying the flexibility on which many livelihoods depend, how digital infrastructure can strengthen enterprise, and how governments can build institutions capable of responding to technological change.

I also believe that academic research should travel beyond the university. My work has involved engagement with international organisations, policymakers, businesses and public institutions, including research supported by the European Commission, the UK Government, the International Labour Organization and the International Organisation of Employers. I have contributed research and policy work on digital employment, entrepreneurship and the changing organisation of work, with the aim of connecting rigorous scholarship to practical questions facing governments and institutions.

Alongside my research, I teach and develop courses concerned with digital transformation, data, analytics and the changing world of work. I am particularly interested in helping students move beyond learning about technology conceptually to learning how to analyse problems, work with evidence and make decisions in environments increasingly shaped by data and digital systems.

Across these different areas, a common question runs through my work: how can societies use technological change to expand human and economic capability? This has increasingly led me towards broader questions about productive economies, institutional capacity, digital public infrastructure and the future of development. I am especially interested in how African and developing economies can build technological systems around their own conditions, capabilities and ambitions rather than simply reproducing models developed elsewhere.

This website brings together that work: my research and its impact, writing on technology and development, teaching resources, public engagement and ideas that I am continuing to develop.