Our membership structure changed during 2026 in accordance with our revised Charter. Details of our current membership are provided below, listed by alphabetical order of first names. Click on images or the highlighted links for more information about each member – and see also here how we deliver on the UN-led Sustainable Development Goals. Past members are listed on our past membership page.
Leadership
Professor G. ‘Hari’ Harindranath has a background in political economy and his research centres around the social and organisational implications of ICTs, including ICT4D and ICT in developing/transition countries. He recently led the work package on ‘Technology, Inequality and Migration’ for the five-year (2019-2024, £20 million), UK government funded, UKRI GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub (overall lead Coventry University). This package focuses on how ICTs have alleviated or exacerbated existing inequalities in the context of South-South migration, and ways through which we can use them for positive development outcomes, particularly to reduce inequalities.
Tim Unwin was the Founder (in 2004) and currently serves as the Catalyst of the ICT4D Collective, and is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Born in 1955, he is a British (and Irish) academic and public figure, specialising in the uses of digital technology by the world’s poorest and most marginalised peoples. Trained as a geographer, he believes in crossing boundaries between disciplines and sectors, as well as in the importance of international understanding between peoples and governments. His latest book, Digital Inclusion in an Unequal World: an Emancipatory Manifesto was published by Routledge in 2026.
Membership
Dr. Akber Gardezi is the Head of Data and AI at Mobiz, where he leads a team of talented data scientists and engineers who are unleashing the potential of AI in data handling and analytics, making it more secure and robust for large-scale infrastructures and automation. Formerly he was team lead at COMSATS for research on Detection and Recognition for Evolutionary Robotics. He is interested in a wide range of ICT4D activities in Pakistan, and is leading an initiative on advocacy, policy making and the development of novel technologies for people with disabilities
Dr. Lenandler Singh’s research focuses on learning technologies and ICTs in education, social networks in higher education, mobile learning, and the learning of computer programming by novices. He was Head of the Department of Computer Science (University of Guyana) from 2012-2016. He served previously as Chief Examiner of Information Technology at the Caribbean Examinations Council’s CAPE Examinations. He’s also a former Executive Director on the Board of Directors of the National Data Management Authority (NDMA) in Guyana.
Dr. Marco Zennaro coordinates the Telecommunications/ICT4D Laboratory at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. He received his PhD from the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, with a thesis on Wireless Sensors for Development. He is a Visiting Professor at Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan
Dr. Maria Rosa Lorini is a researcher and project management practitioner. She has worked primarily on digital technologies and migration as part of the WP9 team contributing to the Migration for Development and Equality (MIDEQ) initiative facilitating migrants and digital tech experts to develop solutions together that can be used to reduce inequalities.
Dr. Marije Geldof currently works as an independent consultant in the area of ICT4D and mobile health based out of Malawi. Previously she worked as project officer at the International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague and as Country Director for D-tree International in Malawi, developing innovative mobile phone applications for health workers. Marije holds a MSc in Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in ICT4D from Royal Holloway, University of London, which explored the role of ICTs in the lives of low-literate youth in Ethiopia and Malawi.
Paul Spiesberger has been the chairman of ICT4D.at since 2014 and in his spare time enjoys using his skills for the common good. He graduated as a computer scientist with a focus on media informatics from the Vienna University of Technology, where he is currently also doing his PhD. He works with INSO (the Research Group for Industrial Software) as a researcher and lecturer in the field of mobile technologies and ICT4D. He is currently employed as a software developer for mobile technologies within a fast growing Austrian company. He has won several national and international awards for his innovative work at Os – a collective to tackle social issues through the use of ICTs.
Dr. Tahmina Khan Tithi is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Asia Pacific, Bangladesh, and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Before joining academia, she worked with international development organisations, including Oxfam and BRAC, in ICT4D research and intervention projects. She holds a Master’s in Sustainable Development from the University of Sussex and a PhD in Management from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Professor Vigneswara Ilavarasan is Head of the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indiam and researches and teaches about production and consumption of ICTs, with a special focus on India and development. His current research interests focus on the growth of urban microenterprises and smartphones; broadband access in rural areas; shared economy; and social media analytics. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations University Computing and Society Institute (Macau), and is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship Award at IIT Delhi and the Prof. M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize of the Indian Sociological Society.
