Critical ICT4D: Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiv, 199 pp.
Contains index
Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society Series
ISBN 978-1-032-49894-2 (pbk); 978-1-003-39596-6 (ebook)
"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 programmes, their deep-rooted socio-political background, and the power relations integrated into or induced by such measures; problematises the current scholarship and practices through decolonial and pluralistic approaches built with an explicit perspective of resisting epistemic violence; constructs justice-enacting engagements of technologies with society." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction / Azadeh Akbari and Silvia Masiero, 1
PART 1: REFLECT
2 Digital Development Dilemma: From Progress to Control / Azadeh Akbari, 15
3 The Evolution of ICT4D: Content, Context, and Process / Shirin Madon, Azadeh Akbari, and Silvia Masiero, 30
4 Bringing Critical ICT4D from the Margin to the Centre / Tony Roberts, 40
5 The Interface Position of ICT4D Research / Silvia Masiero, 62
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, 77
7 Digital Humanitarianism: Orthodoxy and Lived Realities / Silvia Masiero, 92
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, 109
PART 3: RECONSTRUCT
9 From Data Governance to Data Ethics: Invoking Epistemological Plurality for Enabling a Critical Turn in ICT4D / Stefano Calzati, 139
10 Design for Water Justice: Co-Developing Tools for Equitable Cities / Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Andrea Jimenez, and Liliana Miranda Sara, 157
11 Social Media and Sisterhood in Latin America: Discourses and Practices / Illari Diez and Juan Bossio, 173
PART 1: REFLECT
2 Digital Development Dilemma: From Progress to Control / Azadeh Akbari, 15
3 The Evolution of ICT4D: Content, Context, and Process / Shirin Madon, Azadeh Akbari, and Silvia Masiero, 30
4 Bringing Critical ICT4D from the Margin to the Centre / Tony Roberts, 40
5 The Interface Position of ICT4D Research / Silvia Masiero, 62
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, 77
7 Digital Humanitarianism: Orthodoxy and Lived Realities / Silvia Masiero, 92
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, 109
PART 3: RECONSTRUCT
9 From Data Governance to Data Ethics: Invoking Epistemological Plurality for Enabling a Critical Turn in ICT4D / Stefano Calzati, 139
10 Design for Water Justice: Co-Developing Tools for Equitable Cities / Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Andrea Jimenez, and Liliana Miranda Sara, 157
11 Social Media and Sisterhood in Latin America: Discourses and Practices / Illari Diez and Juan Bossio, 173
