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China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda
Information Society, volume 40, issue 2 (2024), pp. 69-95
"At the intersection of China’s growing global presence and growing digital power lies its digital expansion in the low- and middle-income countries of the Global South. Worth billions of US$ annually in trade and investment, and having a significant impact on these countries’social and economic
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Analysing the US-China “AI Cold War” Narrative
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2024), 13 pp.
The Principles of Digital Transformation for Development (DX4D): Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2023), 31 pp.
Digital Inequality Beyond the Digital Divide: Conceptualizing Adverse Digital Incorporation in the Global South
Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 4 (2022), pp. 688-704
"Digital systems are significantly associated with inequality in the global South. That association has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or related terminologies whose core conceptualization is the exclusion of some groups from the benefits of digital systems. However, wi
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From Digital Divide to Digital Justice in the Global South: Conceptualising Adverse Digital Incorporation
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2021), 13 pp.
"The connection between digital and inequality has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or of forms of digital inequality whose core conceptualisation is exclusion. This paper argues that, as the global South moves into a digital development paradigm of growing breadth and de
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ICT4D 3.0? Part 1—The Components of an Emerging “Digital-For-Development” Paradigm
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 86, issue 3 (2020), 15 pp.
"What has changed in the decade or so since the ideas of a new “ICT4D 2.0” phase were first mooted? This paper reviews those changes, based on a new framework model. At a foundational level, it looks at recent and current trends in digital technologies, data, processes and the implications these
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Impact of ICTs-In-Agriculture on Rural Resilience in Developing Countries
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2020), 67 pp.
Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
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London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 410 pp.
"The first three chapters set out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work; and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social deve
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An Applied Data Justice Framework: Analysing Datafication and Marginalised Communities in Cities of the Global South
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2018), 25 pp.
Unveiling the Links Between ICTs and Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Scoping Study
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 59 pp.
"The main structure of the document consists of four parts. The first provides the reader with the 'big picture' of ICTs and climate change, based on a review of existing literature and identification of the main phases that have characterized the debate to date (Figure 1). Based on the above, the a
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The ICT4D 2.0 Manifesto: Where Next for ICTs and International Development?
Manchester: University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management, Development Informatics Group (2009), 33 pp.
"In conclusion and above all, we can see that ICT4D 2.0 is about reframing the poor. Where ICT4D 1.0 marginalised them, allowing a supply-driven focus, ICT4D 2.0 centralises them, creating a demand-driven focus. Where ICT4D 1.0 – fortified by the "bottom of the pyramid" concept – characterised t
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Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects
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Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), iii, 155 pp.
"Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense
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