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Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) book cover

1st Edition

Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development)

Edited By Azadeh Akbari, Silvia Masiero Copyright 2025
214 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing, and researching Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Engaging authors from the Majority World and entering a process of restoring epistemic justice in knowledge production and ownership, the text: Reflects on the histories and narratives around development... Read more

1 Introduction

Azadeh Akbari and Silvia Masiero

PART 1: Reflect

2 Digital Development Dilemma: From Progress to Control

Azadeh Akbari

3 The Evolution of ICT4D: Content, Context, and Process

Shirin Madon, Azadeh Akbari, and Silvia Masiero

4 Bringing Critical ICT4D from the Margin to the Centre

Tony Roberts

5 The Interface Position of ICT4D Research

Silvia Masiero

PART 2: Problematise

6 The Violence of Algorithmic Systems in Social Policy in Colombia: (Re) Localising the Digital Welfare State in the Postcolonial Context

Joan Lopez-Solano

7 Digital Humanitarianism: Orthodoxy and Lived Realities

Silvia Masiero

8 Reimaging Smart City Transplants for the Global South: A Post-Colonial Lens on Human Rights and Digital Sovereignty

Alina Wernick, Gabriel Udoh, and Emeline Banzuzi

PART 3: Reconstruct

9 From Data Governance to Data Ethics: Invoking Epistemological Plurality for Enabling a Critical Turn in ICT4D

Stefano Calzati

10 Design for Water Justice: Co-Developing Tools for Equitable Cities

Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Andrea Jimenez, and Liliana

Miranda Sara

11 Social Media and Sisterhood in Latin America: Discourses and Practices

Illari Diez and Juan Bossio

Biography

Azadeh Akbari is Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Digital Transformation at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She is a European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global fellow for her project on Authoritarian Smart Cities. She is a member of the board of directors at the International Surveillance Studies Network and the founder and director of Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network. Her research focuses on digital authoritarianism, the use of surveillance technologies in urban spaces especially against women, and data justice.

Silvia Masiero is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research focuses on ICT4D, particularly on the role of digital platforms in socio-economic development processes, digital social protection, platform-mediated surveillance and decolonial approaches to information systems research. She is Editor-in-Chief of Information Technology for Development and Chair of the IFIP Working Group 9.4 on the Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development.

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