Kenya App Economy; Contributions, Opportunities and Challenges

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuleikha Rashid
Keyword(s):  
App Economy

scholarly journals Appscapes in everyday life

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (69) ◽  
pp. 029-051
Author(s):  
Signe Sophus Lai ◽  
Sofie Flensburg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Online Tracking ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Infrastructure Studies ◽  
App Economy

It has long been acknowledged that the use of ‘free’ mobile apps comes at a price,but few empirical studies have looked into this supposed trade-off. This articlecombines qualitative interviews with mappings of infrastructures for dataficationin order to study the implications of mobile app usage from the perspectiveof individual users. It analyses users’ understanding of online tracking, maps theinfrastructural tenets of mobile datafication, and finds a disconnect between whatusers believe happens to their data and the actual data harvesting and distributionmechanisms of their apps. We thereby argue that users’ resigned attitudes shouldbe understood in light of the material conditions of the app economy and, as such,that user and infrastructure studies should join forces in exploring and enhancingusers’ agency, empowerment and emancipation.

scholarly journals Lost in the App Store: The Political Economy of the Canadian Game App Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Nieborg ◽  
Chris Young ◽  
Daniel Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
App Store ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
App Economy ◽  
Le Canada

This commentary discusses the political economy of apps. The authors found that Canadian-made game apps are notably absent in the Canadian App Store. This should be both worrying and surprising, as Canada has a relatively sizable game industry. While policy conversations on digital transformation focus on emerging technology, the authors point toward the power and politics of digital platforms as one of the key issues preventing growth in the Canadian digital economy.Ce commentaire discute de l’économie politique des applications. Les auteurs ont observé que les applis de jeu fabriqués au Canada sont absents de l’App Store canadien. Cette situation devrait surprendre et inquiéter, puisque le Canada a une industrie du jeu relativement grande. Les conversations sur les politiques relatives à la transformation numérique portent en grande partie sur les technologies émergentes, mais les auteurs tiennent à souligner que le pouvoir et les politiques relatifs aux plateformes numériques sont parmi les raisons clés pour lesquelles l’économie numérique au Canada ne croît pas autant qu’elle le pourrait.

scholarly journals App Economy

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Dolata ◽  
J. Schrape
Keyword(s):  
App Economy

scholarly journals App Imperialism: The Political Economy of the Canadian App Store

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512093329 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Nieborg ◽  
Chris J. Young ◽  
Daniel Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
App Store ◽  
The Us ◽  
Complex Ecosystem ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Spatial Trajectories ◽  
App Economy

To critically engage with the political economy of platformization, this article builds on the concepts of platform capitalism and platform imperialism to situate platforms within wider historical, economic, and spatial trajectories. To investigate if platformization leads to the geographical redistribution of capital and power, we draw on the Canadian instance of Apple’s iOS App Store as a case study. App stores are situated in a complex ecosystem of markets, infrastructures, and governance models that the disparate fields of business studies, critical political economy of communications, and platform studies have begun to catalog. Through a combination of financial and institutional analysis, we ask if Canadian game app developers are effective in generating revenue within their own national App Store. Given Canada’s vibrant game industry one would expect Canadian developers to have a sizable economic footprint in the burgeoning app economy. Our results, however, point toward the US digital dominance and, therefore, we suggest the notion of app imperialism to signal the continuation, if not reinforcement of existing instances of economic inequalities and imperialism.

scholarly journals MAPS: Scaling Privacy Compliance Analysis to a Million Apps

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Zimmeck ◽  
Peter Story ◽  
Daniel Smullen ◽  
Abhilasha Ravichander ◽  
Ziqi Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile App ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Android Apps ◽  
Extensive Analysis ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
System Maps ◽  
Google Play ◽  
App Economy ◽  
Compliance Issue

Abstract The app economy is largely reliant on data collection as its primary revenue model. To comply with legal requirements, app developers are often obligated to notify users of their privacy practices in privacy policies. However, prior research has suggested that many developers are not accurately disclosing their apps’ privacy practices. Evaluating discrepancies between apps’ code and privacy policies enables the identification of potential compliance issues. In this study, we introduce the Mobile App Privacy System (MAPS) for conducting an extensive privacy census of Android apps. We designed a pipeline for retrieving and analyzing large app populations based on code analysis and machine learning techniques. In its first application, we conduct a privacy evaluation for a set of 1,035,853 Android apps from the Google Play Store. We find broad evidence of potential non-compliance. Many apps do not have a privacy policy to begin with. Policies that do exist are often silent on the practices performed by apps. For example, 12.1% of apps have at least one location-related potential compliance issue. We hope that our extensive analysis will motivate app stores, government regulators, and app developers to more effectively review apps for potential compliance issues.

scholarly journals Perspectives of the App Economy: Tenets of the Innovative Phenomenon

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ciro Troise ◽  
Elia Ferrara ◽  
Mario Tani ◽  
Ornella Papaluca
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Innovation Theory ◽  
Disruptive Innovation Theory ◽  
Multiple Theory ◽  
New Research ◽  
App Economy

The paper aims to explore the App Economy drawing on a configurational multiple-theory perspective (Meyer, Tsui & Hinings 1993; Miller, 1996), using the lens of Transaction Costs Theory, Regulation, Disruptive Innovation Theory and Systemic Approach. These theories are examined in the form of tenets. The choice of these theories as dimensions of our model is the output of two different activities. The first regards an ex-ante analysis of the previous studies in this field in order to find less investigated perspectives and find a connection between the topic of the App Economy and the main management theories; the second refers to a debate with some strategic management scholars in order to identify and choice the main theories for this research. This paper contributes to the existing literature by proposing an original interpretation of the App Economy and it tries to add new knowledge in this emerging research field by adding new tenets. The results of study are the formulation of eight different tenets: two for Transaction Costs Theory, one for Regulation, three for Disruptive Innovation Theory and two for Systemic Approach. These results have confirmed the linked between chosen theories and the new research field of the App Economy. In any case, this paper is a preliminary study to develop a theoretically grounded approach to understanding the emergence of the App Economy and how manage the changes that it brings into the markets. This study has implications for several stakeholders (such as managers, enterprises, institutions, Authorities, app developers, operators, platform managers and other organizations that work in this field), and for several industries being impacted by developments induced by this innovative sharing economy.

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