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

Widespread use of machine learning (ML) systems could result in an oppressive future of
ubiquitous monitoring and behavior control that, for dialogic purposes, we call “Informania.” …

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

History shows that pandemics can catalyse enormous change, fundamentally transforming
the way people make sense of the world. Technologies can also be catalysts of change …

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

This study explores and analyses the implications of digital financial services (DFS) on
human development from a global perspective. Informed by a systematic literature review of …

Only ten years ago, there were more internet users in countries like France or Germany than
in all of Africa put together. But much has changed in a decade. The year 2018 marks the …

In recent years HCI and CSCW work has increasingly begun to address complex social
problems and issues of social justice worldwide. Such activist-leaning work is not without …

This paper reconstructs the major points of criticism of both research and practice of
Information and Communication Technologies for/and Development (ICT4D/ICTD). Since …

This research examines how an oppressed group, the Klamath Tribes of Oregon, used an
information communication technology (ICT) for the human development objective of cultural …