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Research Director
Jonathan Donner is Senior Director for Research at Caribou Digital and guides FIDA’s research activities. For two decades, Jonathan has conducted groundbreaking research on digitization in the Global South. The author of over three dozen scholarly articles, his projects have ranged from microenterprise development and digital financial services to mobile health, digital identity, and youth and new media. His latest book, After Access: Inclusion, Development, and a More Mobile Internet was published by the MIT Press in 2015. Previously, Jonathan was a Researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and a consultant with the Monitor Group in Boston. Jonathan earned his Ph.D. in Communication Research from Stanford.
