Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries; Internet and broadband
access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) …

Providing smallholder farmers with agricultural information could improve economic
development, by helping them to grow more crops, which they could then sell for more …

While there is growing literature on the role of platforms in concentrating market power, this
article centres on their role in 'performing'economic theory. As infrastructures that measure …

The presence of the mobile phone network in rural areas where there is little other
infrastructure has opened up the prospect of automatically monitoring rural water systems …

Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. Digital payment has been
slow to take off in the United States but is displacing cash in countries as diverse as China …

Research on information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D)
requires the combination of multiple theoretical strands. Central among them are the …

In this article, we draw on a case study of a weather information system in West Bengal,
India to examine how the design and usage of ICTs can play a much larger role in steering …

In the dominant policy discourses, the informal sector is often treated as composed of
millions of entrepreneurs who are stuck at small scales of business with low levels of …

Community voice is widely used in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and
human-computer interaction (HCI) work with underserved communities. However, the term is …

Recent growth in mobile telephone and mobile-based information services in many
developing countries provides opportunities to reduce costly and incomplete information …