Mahad Wasuge
Biographic Data
| ID | 291085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahad Wasuge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahad |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasuge |
| SIGNATURE | WASUGE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute on Governance |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9673-0078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Outsourcing accountability
Since the early 2010s, humanitarian donors have increasingly contracted private firms to monitor and evaluate humanitarian activities, accompanied by a promise of improving accountability through their data and data analytics. This article contributes to scholarship on data practices in the humanitarian sector by interrogating the implications of this new set of actors on humanitarian accountability relations. Drawing on insights from 60 intervie…
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy
Mobile money has developed as an indigenous digital innovation in a Somali setting characterized by state weakness and scarcity of local physical currency. On one level, this article presents experiences of this financial technology (and 'cashlessness') from perspectives of marginalized people displaced by conflict and ecological shocks. However, we also analyse these everyday experiences in the context of rapid urbanization, connecting them to t…
The Revival and Re-Embedding of Somali Ports
The chapter argues that port infrastructures have been a key asset in the sometimes violent politics of circulation and state formation after Somali state collapse. The control and development of seaports has had a decisive influence on the making and eroding of Somali state entities. It provides an overview of the conflictive history and recent revival of four major seaports on the Somali coast before zooming in on the changes that DP World’s in…
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy
Mobile money has developed as an indigenous digital innovation in a Somali setting characterized by state weakness and scarcity of local physical currency. On one level, this article presents experiences of this financial technology (and 'cashlessness') from perspectives of marginalized people displaced by conflict and ecological shocks. However, we also analyse these everyday experiences in the context of rapid urbanization, connecting them to t…
The Revival and Re-Embedding of Somali Ports
The chapter argues that port infrastructures have been a key asset in the sometimes violent politics of circulation and state formation after Somali state collapse. The control and development of seaports has had a decisive influence on the making and eroding of Somali state entities. It provides an overview of the conflictive history and recent revival of four major seaports on the Somali coast before zooming in on the changes that DP World’s in…
Outsourcing accountability
Since the early 2010s, humanitarian donors have increasingly contracted private firms to monitor and evaluate humanitarian activities, accompanied by a promise of improving accountability through their data and data analytics. This article contributes to scholarship on data practices in the humanitarian sector by interrogating the implications of this new set of actors on humanitarian accountability relations. Drawing on insights from 60 intervie…
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy
Mobile money has developed as an indigenous digital innovation in a Somali setting characterized by state weakness and scarcity of local physical currency. On one level, this article presents experiences of this financial technology (and 'cashlessness') from perspectives of marginalized people displaced by conflict and ecological shocks. However, we also analyse these everyday experiences in the context of rapid urbanization, connecting them to t…
Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Somali (2 works) · Accountability (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Computer security (1 works) · Context (archaeology) (1 works) · Corporate governance (1 works)