Environmental, social, and governance or ESG investing has experienced a massive inflow of funds in recent years. Given the emphasis on ESG in the media and among the finance community one could easily believe that capital markets are a major contributor to the goal of limiting global warming....

This paper outlines how unusual data and novel information sources, frontier data, could be used for leveraging larger economic and political processes. These frontier data emerge in unexpected and very geographically and culturally specific ways. Here, we look at the betting on Brexit which...

This paper outlines the ways in which information technologies (ITs) were used in the Haiti relief effort, especially with respect to web-based mapping services. Although there were numerous ways in which this took place, this paper focuses on four in particular: CrisisCamp Haiti, OpenStreetMap,...