Required Readings
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Smith, M.L.; Elder, L.; Emdon, H (2017). Open Development: A New Theory for ICT4D. Information Technologies and International Development. Cambridge, v.7, n.1, p.iii-ix, Spring 2011. Available at: http://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/692/290
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Taylor, L. (2020). There’s an app for that: technological solutionism as COVID-19 policy in the Global North. Retrieved from https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/grwsk/
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Rob Holmes, “The Problem with Solutions,” Places Journal, July 2020. Accessed 20 Sep 2020. https://doi.org/10.22269/200714
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Zuckerman, E. (2014). "New Media, New Civics?". Policy & Internet, 6: 151–168. DOI: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI360 (Adapted from “New Media, New Civics?” a Bellwether lecture delivered December 6, 2013 at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.) Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1944-2866.POI360/abstract (PDF prepress version) http://ethanzuckerman.com/papers/newmedianewcivicsprepress.pdf
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Herber, L., & Bookchin, M. (1965). Towards a liberatory technology. La Presse Populaire de Montréal. Retrieved from https://abinnitio.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/@78.pdf
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Harlow, S. (2015). Beyond representation: Exploring participation in and through technology at an alternative newspaper in El Salvador. Cuadernos. info, 37, 35-47.
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Rotman, David (2020). COVID-19 has killed the myth of Silicon Valley, MIT Technology Review, April, 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/25/1000563/covid-19-has-killed-the-myth-of-silicon-valley-innovation/
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Toyama, Kentaro (2010). Can Technology End Poverty?, Boston Review, November, 2010. Retrieved from: http://bostonreview.net/forum/can-technology-end-poverty
Other resources
Papers
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Montero, S. (2018). Leveraging Bogotá: Sustainable development, global philanthropy and the rise of urban solutionism. Urban Studies, 004209801879855. doi:10.1177/0042098018798555
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Illich, I., & Lang, A. (1973). Tools for conviviality. Retrieved from https://monoskop.org/images/2/24/Illich_Ivan_Tools_for_Conviviality_1973.pdf
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Barton, A. C./Tan, E./Greenberg, D. (2016). The makerspace movement: Sites of possibilities for equitable opportunities to engage underrepresented youth in STEM. Teachers College Record, 119(6), 11-44. Retrieved from https://eugenemakerspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The-Makerspace-Movement_-Sites-of-Possibilities-for-Equitable-Opportunities-to-Engage-Underrepresented-Youth-in-STEM.pdf
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Meier, P. (2012). Crisis Mapping in Action: How Open Source Software and Global Volunteer Networks Are Changing the World, One Map at a Time. Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 8(2), 89–100. doi:10.1080/15420353.2012.663739
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Njambi-Szlapka, S. (2019) Youth and Technology: A desk review of the makerspace phenomenon and its potential to enhance youth employment and empowerment. Retrieved from http://theresiliencecollective.org/docs/ODIdeskreviewonyouthtechnologyempowermentfinalreport.pdf
Articles
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Bunting, M. (2020). Small is beautiful – an economic idea that has sadly been forgotten. Retrieved 13 February 2020, from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/10/small-is-beautiful-economic-idea
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Woods, J. (2020). MIT D-Lab Founder Amy Smith Discusses Appropriate Technology and Fighting Poverty | Heifer International. Retrieved 20 September 2020, from https://www.heifer.org/blog/designs-on-fighting-poverty.html
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Ryan-Silva, R. (2020). You Keep Using That Word: Why “Scale” Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means. Retrieved 20 September 2020, from https://dai-global-digital.com/you-keep-using-that-word-why-scale-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means.html
Other Media
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Say Chan, A. (2016). Anita Say Chan: Networking peripheries. Retrieved 20 September 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iav6uxkdjHE
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Bad News [Game] - https://www.getbadnews.com/
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IRL: Online Life is Real Life [Podcast] - https://irlpodcast.org/
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The Internet but not as we know it -https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2019/jan/11/the-internet-but-not-as-we-know-it-life-online-in-china-russia-cuba-and-india
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Clouds Over Sydra (360 video experience) -http://unvr.sdgactioncampaign.org/cloudsoversidra/#.X2fDmGhKg2w
Suggested
The ICT4D Jester
Kentaro Toyama is an expert who became skeptical about "the endeavor called information and communication technologies for development”, after years working in this field. He wrote an interesting article and also a book to call our attention for the simple truth that people are always more important than tech in any social change strategy. At the blog ICT4D Jester, he questions, critiques, and sometimes lampoons ICT4D.
Recommended readings
Adera, E.O., Waema, T.M., May, J., Mascarenhas, O., and Diga, K. (2014). ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction: Empirical Evidence from East and Southern Africa, Rugby, UK: Practical Action Publishing. (Chapters 1, 10)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780448152.
Available at: http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/openebooks/539-7/index.html
AMARC; SDC; UNESCO; CFSC. (2008) Fighting Poverty: Utilizing Community Media in a Digital Age - Practitioners’ reflections from an interactive roundtable at the World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD). World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters; SDC, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; CFSC, Communications for Social Change Consortium.
Available at: http://www.amarc.org/wccd/text/WCCD_doc_hi.pdf
Dassin, J. & Belda, F (2017). International education in an interactive virtual learning environment: experimenting with digital media applications for community-based development. Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação, 12 (3): Jul./Set., 2017.
Available at: http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/10019
Gao, H., Barbier, G., Goolsby, R. (2011). "Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief". IEEE Inteligent Systems. pp.10-14.
DOI: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2011.52
Available at: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA581803
Kahne, J., Middaugh, E., Allen, Danielle (2014). Youth New Media, and the Rise of Participatory Politics. YPP Research Network Working Paper #1, March 2014.
Available at: http://ypp.dmlcentral.net/sites/default/files/publications/YPP_WorkinPapers_Paper01.pdf
Mizukami, P., Reia, J., Varon, J. (2013). Maping Digital Media: Brazil. Open Society Foundations, 30 October 2013.
Available at: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/mapping-digital-media-brazil
Peruzzo, C. M. K. (2013). "Social movements, virtual networks and alternative media in June when the giant awakened”. Matrizes. v.7, n.2, Jul/Dec, 2013. São Paulo. pp.1-26.
Available at: http://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizes/article/viewFile/69407/71977
Scolari, C. A., Aguado, J. M., Feij, C. (2012) "Mobile Media: Towards a Definition and Taxonomy of Contents and Applications". In: International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies. Vol. 6, nº 2. pp.:29-38. ISSN: 1865-7923. Austria.
DOI: http://online-journals.org/i-jim/article/view/1880
UNDP (2006). Communication for Empowerment: developing media strategies in support of vulnerable groups - Practical Guidance Note. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bureau for Development Policy, Democratic Governance Group. (Chapters 2, 3, 5)
Available at:http://www.communicationforsocialchange.org/pdfs/communicationforempowermentfinal.pdf
Zuckerman, Ethan. (2013). “Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression." Chapter in Youth, New Media and Political Participation, Danielle Allen and Jennifer Light, editors. (under review, MIT Press) Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78899