Research and consultancy

Members and Affiliated Members of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D conduct a very wide range of research and publish on many aspects of ICT4D, particularly seeking to serve the interests of the poorest and most marginalised.  Details of some of our main areas of research are listed below.  These also provide an overview of the Chair’s areas of consultancy expertise. Although some members are highly critical of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) project, this list also shows how the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D effectively undertakes research on most of the SDGs.

Accessibility (SDG 10)

• Innovation, smart homes and independent living for people with a disability
  • David Banes

• ICT policies and strategies for people with disabilities
  • Tim Unwin

Climate (SDG 13)

• Disasters
  • Ayesha Siddiqi

Concepts and Theories of ICT4D (SDG 1)

• Critical Theory and Empowerment (SDG 10)
  • Tim Unwin

• Multi-network theory
  • Endrit Kromidha

Cybersecurity and Information Security

• Visualising risk and security
  • Lizzie Coles-Kemp

• Security, defence and emerging media
  • Rikke Bjerg Jensen

• Cryptography for development
  • Elizabeth Quaglia

• Risk and cybersecurity
  • Konstantinos Mersinas

Economic growth (SDG 8)

• Entrepreneurship
  • Endrit Kromidha

• Small and medium enterprises
  • G. Harindranath
  • Vigneswara Ilavarasan

• Sustainable supply chains
  • Diego Vazquez-Brust

• Big data
  • Mark Lycett
  • Silvia Masiero

• The shared economy
  • Vigneswara Ilavarasan

Education (SDG 4)

• Education for sustainable development
  • Diego Vazquez-Brust

• ICTs for teacher training
  • Tim Unwin

• ICTs and inclusive education
  • Amalia Sabiescu

• Monitoring and evaluation of ICT in education
  • David Hollow

• Inclusive online education for refugees
  • David Banes

• Mobile learning
  • Lenandlar Singh
  • Tim Unwin

Environment (SDGs 7, and 12)

• Environmental sustainability and social inclusion
  • Diego Vazquez-Brust

Gender (SDG 5)

• Sexual harassment through mobile devices
  • Bushra Hassan
  • Tim Unwin

Government and Governance

• e-voting
  • Elizabeth Quaglia

Health (SDG 3)

• Mobile devices for enhanced health delivery in Africa
  • Marije Geldof

Innovation (SDG 9)

• Innovation
  • Endrit Kromidha
  • Kristina Glushkova

Internet of Things

• Internet of Things for Development
  • Marco Zennaro

Monitoring and evaluation

• Monitoring and evaluation of ICT4D
  • David Hollow
  • Marije Geldof

Participatory research

• Participatory methods in information management
  • Lizzie Coles-Kemp

Partnerships (SDG 17)

• Concepts and practices of partnerships
  • Tim Unwin

Pro-poor policy (SDG1)

• Datafication of anti-poverty systems
  • Silvia Masiero

• ICTs for food security (SDG2)
  • Silvia Masiero

Refugees

• ICTs for refugee integration
  • Silvia Masiero

Social media

• Social media in social transformation movements
  • G. Harindranath

• Social media analytics
  • Vigneswara Ilavarasan

Statistical methodologies

• Linear models in statistics
  • Bushra Hassan

Sustainability

• Sustainability of community development (SDG 11)
  • Amalia Sabiescu

• Sustainable supply chains
  • Diego Vazquez-Brust

• Environmental sustainability and social inclusion (SDG12)
  
  • Diego Vazquez-Brust

Technologies and hardware

• Autonomous Intelligent Systems
  • Sara Bernardini

• Wireless infrastructures and TV White Spaces
  • Marco Zennaro

• Drones for development
  • Sara Bernardini

Do follow the links to individual members of the Chair for further information about their research, or to contact them with respect to consultancy requests.