ICT4D books

I’ll be keeping a list of suggested reading material regarding the field of ICT4D.

Ndukwe, E., Rodríguez Casal, C., Nnoli-Edozien, N. & Ike, O. F. (Eds.) (2007). ICT for Education and Development: The Challenges of meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. Enugu: CIDJAP Publishers. Retrieved December 16, 2007 from http://www.clubofrome.org/tt30/material/ict_book_05.pdf

Unwin, T. (Ed.) (2009). ICT4D: Information and Communication Technology for Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Weigel, G. & Waldburger, D. (Eds.) (2004). ICT4D – Connecting People For A Better World. Lessons, Innovations and Perspectives of Information and Communication Technologies in Development. Berne: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). Retrieved July 14, 2006 from http://www.globalknowledge.org/ict4d/

Tongia, R., Subrahmanian, E. & Arunachalam, V. (2005). Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Development. Bangalore: Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd.. Retrieved November 03, 2005 from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rtongia/ICT4SD_Full_Book.pdf

Torero, M. & von Braun, J. (2006). Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa, Edited by Sokari Ekine

Heeks. “ICT4D 2.0: The Next Phase of Applying ICT for International Development.”

Donner et al. “Stages of Design in Technology for Global Development.”

Pentland et al. “DakNet: rethinking connectivity in developing nations.”

Banerjee and Duflo. “The Economic Lives of the Poor.”

Jensen. “The Digital Provide: Information (Technology), Market Performance, and Welfare in the South Indian Fisheries Sector.”

Malink. “Design of Health Care Technologies for the Developing World.”

Caldwell. “Cultural and Social Factors Influencing Mortality Levels in Developing Countries.”

Kumar. “eChoupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of Village Internet Centers in Rural Madhya Pradesh.”

Parikh and Lazowa. “Designing an architecture for delivering mobile info services to rural developing world.”

Wishart. “Micro-Payment Systems and Their Application to Mobile Networks.”

Vodafone and Nokia. “The Transformational Potential of M-Transactions.”


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