Digital Infrastructures Along the New Silk Road: A Mixed-methods Exploration of China's Digital Investments in Its Borderland Regions

Project Information

DIGISILK

Grant agreement ID: 850891

DOI

10.3030/850891

Project closed

EC signature date 20 February 2020

Start date 1 March 2020

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 236,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 236,00

Coordinated by

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Using archival versions of apps to understand emerging digital ecosystems

Author(s): James Burroughs, Ashwin Mathew, Elisa Oreglia
Published in: Big Data & Society, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/20539517251382825

Beyond geopolitics: Agency and modularity in mobile telecommunications in Kazakhstan

Author(s): Oyuna Baldakova, Elisa Oreglia
Published in: Telecommunications Policy, 2024, Page(s) 102878, ISSN 0308-5961
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102878

Chinese State Capital as a Partner for Resource-Based Structural Transformation? The Belt and Road Initiative and Downstream Linkages in Bolivia and Kazakhstan

Author(s): Nicholas Jepson, Oyuna Baldakova
Published in: The European Journal of Development Research, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 718-745, ISSN 0957-8811
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1057/s41287-024-00640-1

Digital vines: mapping China’s network of global platform ecosystems

Author(s): Weidi Zheng
Published in: Information, Communication & Society, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 2563-2579, ISSN 1369-118X
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2025.2467340

Mosaic of state power: How ‘New’ state capitalism shapes global tech capital

Author(s): Weidi Zheng
Published in: Big Data & Society, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/20539517251398728

The Digital Silk Road between National Rhetoric and Provincial Ambitions

Author(s): Elisa Oreglia, Weidi Zheng
Published in: The China Quarterly, 2024, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 0305-7410
Publisher: Contemporary China Institute of the School of Oriental and African Studies
DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000936