Publications

Knowledgemaze
AI and Gender in Africa

By Nagla Rizk, August 2020

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Network of Internet and Society Centers
Global Perspectives and Local Realities: An Evolving Essay Series Exploring Stories of COVID-19 in Real Time
Vulnerabilities Exposed: COVID-19 and Informal Livelihoods in Egypt

By Nagla Rizk June 2020

Based on a field survey of a sample of Uber driver-partners in Cairo, the paper offers a glimpse of ride-sharing Egypt through the eyes of the driver-partners themselves.

By Nagla Rizk, 2017

How can copyright regimes best suit the priorities of both revolutionary graffiti artists and the consumers of their art? We explore the possibilities offered by the increasingly widespread use of and access to online digital platforms.

By Nagla Rizk, 2015

This is the first Fairwork report for Egypt. It covers seven digital labor platforms spanning four different sectors: ride-hailing, courier-delivery, tutoring, and home services. In a country dominated by informality, digital labor platforms present unique and flexible opportunities for workers to earn an income in Egypt. Nevertheless, there are issues with the gig work model. The Fairwork report for Egypt examines the working conditions in the platform economy, with the aim to help improve conditions, protections and benefits to workers. The report assesses seven digital labor platforms against five principles of fairness—fair pay, fair conditions, fair contracts, fair management, and fair representation—giving each platform a fairness rating out of ten.

This study was undertaken in collaboration with the International Labour Organization with the purpose of providing insights to Egypt’s Ministry of Manpower to help develop its perspective on the challenges and opportunities for the future of work in Egypt in light of the expected impact of AI and related ICT innovations. The study draws on a review of the literature as well as perspectives from the ground received from key stakeholders and informants. It provides conclusions on how to best utilize the promise and mitigate the perils of these technologies. The recommendations consider dimensions of public policy in the areas of education and skills, public investment, and fiscal incentives, as well as other potentially relevant areas such as key private sector and civil society initiatives.

By Nagla Rizk and Ayman Ismail, 2021

By Nagla Rizk, Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Tom Hollanek and Nadine Weheba. 2021.

Report on the AI Narratives in the Middle East and North Africa, in partnership with the Global AI Narratives (GAIN) project. The Royal Society, London. The report co-produced by the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) and the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), maps out themes – such as colonialism, contemporary political turmoil, as well as technological determinism and gender roles – that are pivotal to the understanding of the Middle Eastern and North African conceptions of futures with intelligent machines.

By Nagla Rizk, Nancy Salem and Youmna Hashem, 2018.
We detail the experience of a capacity-building initiative by Tiba Solar, an Egyptian micro-factory producing photovoltaic (PV) cells.

By Nagla Rizk, Nancy Salem, and Youmna Hashem, 2018
This case study investigates the economics behind the implementation of solar energy initiatives specifically in the Oasis Hotel in Marsa Allam, Egypt.

By Nagla Rizk et al., 2018
The open data management plan outlines important concepts relating to data management, security, storage and long-term preservation in the Middle East and North Africa.

By Nagla Rizk et al., 2018.
This paper argues for the need of additional dimensions to innovation which is currently under-measured by conventional metrics of innovation activities. Available here.

The author explores the methodologies of 16 indices in innovation, information and communication technologies, economic environment, governance, and development.

By Islam Hassouna, 2018
 
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By Nagham ElHoussamy and Nagla Rizk, 2018
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We explore observations and findings of a collaborative project undertaken by A2K4D and the Berkman Center to study the Arab networked public sphere and to better understand the role of digitally mediated communication in civic engagement.

By A2K4D and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, 2016

This study sets out to assess the role of the networked public sphere in civil engagement and social mobilization in the Arab world and particularly Egypt and Tunisia.

By A2K4D and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, 2016

This research examines the Networked Public Sphere (NPS) and its impact on spurring political debate, mobilization, and civic engagement in Egypt four years following the 2011 uprisings.

By Nagla Rizk, Lina Attalah and Nadine Weheba, 2016