Bio
Jonathan catalyzes, coordinates, and curates knowledge, methods, and perspectives across Caribou’s services and areas of expertise. He manages Caribou’s Research & Insights service and oversees Caribou’s publications.
For two decades, Jonathan has conducted groundbreaking research on mobile telephony and the internet, with a focus on their implications for global development and digital inclusion. His work spans over three dozen scholarly articles and four books, addressing topics such as platform economies, artificial intelligence, micro-enterprise development, digital financial services, citizen journalism, mobile health, digital identity, and youth & new media.
Prior to joining Caribou, Jonathan was a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and a consultant with the Monitor Group in Boston, MA. He holds a PhD in communication research from Stanford University and is based in the US.
I've spent years engaging with professional communities committed to deploying technologies for societal benefit—but I'm mindful that technologies aren't just neutral tools. Instead, technologies and societies are inseparably intertwined, each reflecting the other. With every new technology, societies rewrite the very terms by which people are included or excluded, prosper or fall behind. My aim is to ensure that my work contributes to improving those terms.
