Raymond Okwudiri Onuoha

Raymond is a Research Fellow at the Lagos Business School Nigeria, where his research focuses on the institutional and policy challenges in the evolution of the internet economy and technology innovation in developing countries. He is also a Research Consultant with regional ICT policy and regulation think-tank for the Global South – Research ICT Africa (RIA), conducting multidisciplinary research on digital governance, policy and regulation and the facilitation of evidence-base to inform policy making for improved access, use and application of digital technologies for social and economic development in Africa. Asides several policy and industry project reports, Raymond co-authored the paper – Platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Startup Models and the role of Business Incubation, which was published by the Journal of Intellectual Capital in 2018. Raymond is currently a doctoral student at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance (NMSPG), University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa where his thesis interrogates platform competition policy in the multi-sided telecommunications market, and its investment and innovation imperatives for social welfare in developing economies.

Publications

Africa's Platforms and the Evolving Sharing Economy
Africa's Platforms and the Evolving Sharing Economy
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro, Raymond Okwudiri Onuoha. © 2021. 288 pages.
Digital transformation concepts have created new business principles such as the on-demand economy and a new sharing economy. While the on-demand economy has primarily grown out...
Africa's Platform and the Sharing Economy: Introduction, Definitions, and Conceptualizations
Africa's Platform and the Sharing Economy: Introduction, Definitions, and Conceptualizations
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro, Raymond Okwudiri Onuoha. © 2021. 17 pages.
Platforms are altering business processes and value creation mechanisms as previously witnessed across traditional pipe businesses. Africa has over 300 active digital platforms...