As Senior Director of Research at Caribou Digital, I am a researcher, author, and consultant focused on advancing digital inclusion in the developing world.

I like to participate in the "Digital Development", “Digital Inclusion”, and  ICTD/ICT4D “Information Technology for Development“ communities.  Recent work has focused on “Platform Livelihoods” - how people work, trade, rent, and create in platform marketplaces. My projects often combine (quantitative) market and business models research with (qualitative) applied ethnographic methods.

For 2023-2024 I am an Affiliate at The Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where I teach a class on Digital Development.

Previously, I was a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research in Bangalore, India, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and a consultant with the Monitor Group and its spin-off, the OTF Group. In 2016 as was an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

I have a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Communication Theory and Research.

You can reach me at info@jonathandonner.com. I live along the marathon route, just outside of Boston, MA, USA.