Digital social innovation (DSI) involves the use of digital technologies in the development
and implementation of innovative products, services, processes and business models that …

ICT projects are considered an important means of achieving development goals in
developing countries. Although voluminous, the research to date is inconsistent in theorizing …

Financial technology (fintech) is seen as possessing significant potential to provide the poor
access to financial services and help them escape the clutches of poverty. Surprisingly …

ABSTRACT ICT4D research is faced with the challenge of rapidly changing technologies
and increasingly complex social dynamics and development processes. We argue that …

Extant approaches to information provisioning to farmers to improve agricultural productivity,
and thereby alleviate poverty have relied on top-down external expert-driven knowledge …

This paper identifies challenges facing the development of contextual theory in Information
Systems research. The IS literature is examined to identify the variation of approaches …

In the 1990s and the early 2000s, development-focused information and communication
technology (ICT) research predominantly concentrated on bridging the digital divide through …

This paper examines how and why innovations are reshaped as they become implemented
and used in locales that are distant and distinct from those where the innovation was initially …

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

The social sustainability of information and communication technology for development
(ICT4D) projects such as e-government in developing nations remains a vexing issue …