“…The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing and researching Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Keeping the faith in enduring economic and political hardship -- 3 Private and public information and communication -- 4 Economic and techno-social basis of mobile phone use -- 5 Sociality and the mobile phone as connector and liar -- 6 Civic (dis)engagement and protest -- 7 The imaginary of ICT4D and civic (dis)engagement -- 8 Conclusions: Political silence and new ICTs in a repressive state -- References -- Appendix 1: Graphs mobile communication logs -- Appendix 2: Questionnaire mobile communication logs -- Index…”

“…This conference provides an opportunity to academic researchers, industry professionals, government delegates and students to interact and share their experiences and knowledge on cutting-edge developments in the fields of Cloud Computing, Internetof- Things, Networked Systems, Data Communications, Computer Security, Multimedia, Computer Vision, Intelligent Computing, Robotics, Machine Vision, Signal Processing, Software Engineering, ICT4D and ICT in Education. Our main objective is to promote scientific and educational activities towards the advancement of knowledge by improving the theory and practice of various disciplines and areas of ICT Engineering…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Emergence of Open Development in a Network Society; Part I Models of Openness; 3 Enacting Openness in ICT4D Research; 4 Transparency and Development: Ethical Consumption through Web 2.0 and the Internet of Things; 5 Open Source Biotechnology Platforms for Global Health and Development: Two Case Studies; 6 Open Educational Resources: Opportunities and Challenges for the Developing World; II Openness in Tension; 7 Establishing Public-ness in the Network: New Moorings for Development-A Critique of the Concepts of Openness and Open Development…”

“…These include, but are not limited to, HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), co-design, design research, CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology for Development), development studies, design anthropology, sociology, media studies, participatory architecture and spatial planning, and participatory arts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Impact of Research on Development Policy and Practice: This Much We Know -- Chapter 3: Constructing Theories of Change for Information Society Impact Research -- Chapter 4: A New Set of Questions: ICT4D Research and Policy -- Chapter 5: Progress Towards Resolving the Measurement Link Between ICT and Poverty Reduction -- Chapter 6: The Impact of mFinance Initiatives in the Global South: A Review of the Literature -- Chapter 7: An Analytical Framework to Incorporate ICT as an Independent Variable -- Part II: Research on Impact -- Chapter 8: (Un)Balanced Conversations: Participatory Action Research in Technology Development in Peruvian Primary Schools -- Chapter 9: The Institutional Dynamics Perspective of ICT for Health Initiatives in India -- Chapter 10: Cybersex as Affective Labour: Critical Interrogations of the Philippine ICT Framework and the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 -- Chapter 11: The Internet and Indonesian Women Entrepreneurs: Examining the Impact of Social Media on Women Empowerment -- Chapter 12. …”

“…Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West's attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia. …”

“…Of special note this year are two keynote addresses, one by Daniel Porreca, the executive director of HEALTHeLINK the clinical information exchange and HEALTHeNET the administrative data ex-change for Western New York (WNY), on the topic "Connecting at the Intersection of Technology and Healthcare," and the other by Viswanath Venkatesh, Distinguished Professor and Billingsley Chair in Information Systems at the Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas and one of the most influential and highly-cited scholar in the IS discipline, on the topic "Doing Research That Matters: Reflecting on the Past and Charting a Future for ICT4D." Also of special note this year is an industry-academia panel that will address issues related to the conference theme and that is comprised of two senior industry executives who have shaped and continue to shape the transformation in the healthcare industry, and two professors who are engaged in understanding the digital transformation occurring around us in general, and that occurring in the healthcare arena, and its implications on work in healthcare services and on our individual lives. …”