Combatting Corruption with Mobile Phones abc

With Vivek Srinivasan

India’s right to information movement demonstrated the potential to combat corruption through social audits – an exercise to share and verify public records with people.

Ethical Treatment of Data in New Digital Landscapes – bringing development practitioners and academics together abc

With Amy O’Donnell

How can NGOs like Oxfam come together with academics and practitioners alike to tackle emerging privacy and security challenges when it comes to effective management of data?

Dying for an iPhone: The Hidden Struggle of China’s Workers abc

With Jenny Chan

An in-depth study of the most powerful electronics contractor and the lives of its 1.4 million workers.

An Internet of the Poor – A Poor Person’s Internet? Internet Connectivity and use in 12 African Countries abc

Internet use is Africa is growing quickly but is the network Africans are using an Internet we would recognise?

Crowdsourcing and Development of Activity Systems: the Case of Emergency abc

With Gregory Asmolov

The presentation suggests applying the notion of activity systems and zones of proximal development, as conceptualized in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), to the field of ICT4D.

The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problem abc

This talk discusses dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society strategies and actions.