Academic Publications

Members of the ICT4D Collective (formerly the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D) publish in a diversity of media and outlets.  Some of our books, journal articles and chapters in edited books are listed below.

Books by Members  include:

• Fiormonte, D., Ricaurte, P. and Chaudhuri, S. (eds) (2022) Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
• Chaudhari, B. and Zennaro, M. (2020) LPWAN Technologies for IoT and M2M applications, Elsevier Academic Press.
• Unwin, T. (2017) Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Eades, G. (2016) The Geography of Names: Indigenous to Post-Foundational, London: Taylor and Francis
• Eades, G. (2015) Maps and Memes: Redrawing Culture, Place and Identity in Indigenous Communities, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Unwin, T. (ed.) (2009) ICT4D, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Unwin, T. (ed.) (1998 ) A European Geography, London: Addison Wesley Longman
• Owen, L. and Unwin, T. (eds) (1997) Environmental Management: Readings and Case Studies, Oxford: Blackwell
• Unwin, T. (ed.) (1994) Atlas of World Development, Chichester: Wiley

Some of our Members’ recent journal publications and book chapters include:

• Lorini, M.R., Harindranath, G. and Unwin, T. (2025) Responsible Digital: Co-Creating Safe, Wise and Secure Digital Interventions with Vulnerable Groups, Information Systems Frontiers, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-025-10611-4
• Harindranath, G., Unwin, T., Lorini, M.R. (2024). The Design and Use of Digital Technologies in the Context of South–South Migration, in: Crawley, H. and Teye, J.K. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39814-8_23
• Harindranath, G. and Unwin, T. (2024) Digital technologies, migration and the SDG agenda, in: Piper, N. and Ditta, K. (eds) Elgar Companion to Migration and the SDGs, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 150-163.
• Cole, J., Ayikoru, M., van de Ven, C., Mkrtchyan, H. and Dodds, K. (2024) Critical health geopolitics: (Un)healthy spaces of the COVID-19 pandemic, in: Dianteill, E. and Assie-Lumumba, ND. T. (eds), Preparing for the Next Pandemic Leveraging Social and Human Sciences for Crisis: Lessons from COVID-19 (Vol. MOST/PROCEEDINGS/2024/1, pp. 215-223). Article 4.1 UNESCO Digital Library. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000391128
• Bada, J. K., Atcero, M., Dopia, B. A., Ayikoru, M., Asianzu, E. and Abima, B. (2024) Applying ADDIE model to develop multimedia lessons for adolescent reproductive health education in Uganda, University of Dar es Salaam Library Journal, 18(2), 82-97. https://doi.org/10.4314/udslj.v18i2.7
• Domenico Fiormonte (2023) “Descolonizar el conocimiento digital“, Pléyade 32: 93-129.
• Harindranath, G. , Unwin, T. and Lorini, M.R. (2023) Rethinking digital tech policy for (and with) migrants, Chapter 8 in: UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) and MIDEQ (Migration for Development and Equality) Migration and Inequality in the Global South: Evidence from the MIDEQ Hub, Geneva: UNRISD, 36-40.
• Geldof, M., Gerlach, N. and Portela, A. (2023) Digitalization of home-based records for maternal, newborn, and child health: a scoping review, BMC Digit Health, 1, 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-023-00032-1.
• Ayikoru, M., Cole, J., Dodds, K., Atcero , M., Bada, J. K., Petrikova, I. and Worodria , W. (2023) Addressing vaccine concerns through the spectrum of vaccine acceptance, Social Science & Medicine, Article 116146. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116146
• Unwin, T. (2022) Walking with the Slow, in: ITCILO (eds) Slow Learning Book, Torino: ITCILO, 40-41.
• Unwin, T. (2022) On language, gender and digital technologies, in: Fiormonte, D., Ricaurte, P. and Chaudhuri, S. (eds) Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 298-304.
• Majidi, N., Kasavan, C. & Harindranath, G. (2021) In support of return and reintegration? A roadmap for a responsible use of technology, in: McAuliffe, M. (ed.) Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 220-236.
• Unwin, T. (2021) Cyber security” and “development”: Contested futures, Chapter 47 in: Cornish, P. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Cyber Security, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 769-784.
• Geldof, M., Thiombiano, B.A. and Wagner, N. (2020) “When I receive the message, it is a sign of love”: symbolic connotations of SMS messages for people living with HIV in Burkino Faso, AIDS Care, DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2020.1769832.
• Fraser, A. and Quaglia, E.A. (2019) A gender perspective on security and privacy in the digital age, in: Sey, A. and Hafkin, N. (eds) Taking Stock: Data and Evidence on Gender Equality in Digital Access, Skills and Leadership, Macau: United Nations University Computing and Society Institute and EQUALS Global Partnership, 304-310.
• Unwin, T. (2019) Digital economies at global margins: a warning from the dark side, in Graham, M. (ed.) Digital Economies at Global Margins, Cambridge, MA and Ottowa: MIT Press and IDRC, 43-46.
• Ayikoru, M., and Park, H. Y. (2019) Films and critical pedagogy in management education: A tourism studies context, Academy of Management Learning & Education, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2015.0134
• Quaglia, E. and Smyth, B. (2018) Secret, verifiable auctions from elections. In Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, volume 730, pp. 44-92.
• Quaglia, E. and Smyth, B. (2018) Authentication with weaker trust assumptions for voting systems. In Progress in Cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2018, volume 10831 of LNCS, pp. 322-343.
• Unwin, T. (2018) How do we ensure inclusive development from digitalization in Africa?, contribution to UNCTAD’s Dialogue on African Development and the Digital Economy,
• Azer, E.,Harindranath, G. & Zheng, Y., (2018) Revisiting leadership in ICT-enabled activism, New Media and Society.
• Alis, B. and Quaglia, E. (2018) InfoSec Cinema: Using Films for Information Security Teaching. In ASE – USENIX Workshop on Advances in Security Education
• Hassan, B., Unwin, T and Gardezi, A. (2018) Understanding the darker side of ICTs: gender, harassment and mobile technologies in Pakistan, Information Technologies and International Development, 14, 1-17.
• Unwin, T.,  Weber, M.,  Brugha, M. and  Hollow, D. (2017) The future of learning and technology in deprived contexts, London: Save the Children International, 51 pp.
• Unwin, T. (2017) ICTs, sustainability and development: critical elements, Chapter 2 in Sharafat, A.H. and Lehr, W.H. (eds) ICT-Centric Economic Growth, Innovation and Job Creation, Geneva: ITU, 37-71.
• Hassan, B. and Unwin, T. (2017) Mobile identity construction by male and female students in Pakistan: on, in and through the ‘phone, Information Technologies and International Development, 13, 87-102.
• Mersinas, K., Hartig, B., Martin, K. & Seltzer, A. (2016) Are inforamtion security professionals expected value maximisers?: An experimental and survey-based test, Journal of Cybersecurity, 2(1), 57-70.
• E. W. Bernroider, G. Harindranath, S. Kamel (2016) A Comparative Analysis of Social Media Platforms and the Effects of the Internet Cut-Off for Egypt’s Social Transformation Movements, Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Information Resource Management (Conf-IRM), an AIS affiliate conference, May, Capetown, South Africa
• R. Dyerson, R. Spinelli & G. Harindranath (2016) Revisiting IT Readiness: An Approach for Small Firms, Industrial Management & Data Systems, 116(3), 546-563
• Kromidha, E. and Robson, P. (2016) Social identity and signalling success factors in online crowdfunding, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 1-26
• Kromidha, E. (2016) Crowdfunding and social identity in Northern and Latin America, Proceedings of the 6th Latin American and European Meeting on Organization Studies, 6-9 April 2016 . Viña del Mar, Chile, 2016.
• Harindranath, G., Bernroider, E. W. N. & Kamel, S. H. (2015) Social Media and Social Transformation Movements: The Role of Affordances and Platforms, Proceedings of the Twenty-Third European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Münster, Germany, 2015
• H. Lee, G. Harindranath, S. Oh, & D-J, Kim (2015) Provision of Mobile Banking Services from an Actor-Network Perspective: Implications for Convergence and Standardization, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 90 (Part B, January), pp. 551-561
• Unwin, T. (2015) ICTs and the dialectics of development, in: Cantoni, L. and Danowski, J.A. (eds) Communication and Technology, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 193-214
• Unwin, T. (2015) Building “Multi-stakeholder” Consensus: the case of Internet Governance, Commonwealth Governance Handbook 2014-15, London: Nexus, 76-78
• Unwin, T. (2015) Evolution and prospects for the use of mobile technologies to improve education access and learning outcomes, Commissioned Paper for UNESCO Education for All, Global Monitoring Report, 2015, Paris; UNESCO
• Unwin, T. (2015) Broadband: achieving universal access in the Commonwealth, Ministers Reference Book: Commonwealth 2015, London: Henley Media Group, 153-156
• Unwin, T. (2015) Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Information and Communication for Development Interventions, in: International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society, Chichester: Wiley, 1-10
• Kromidha, E., and Cordoba-Pachon, J. R. (2014) Bridging the gaps between e-government practice and research: A meta-study for policy development, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 27(1), 66-84.
• S. Rai, G. Harindranath, & J. Liebenau (2013) Editorial, Special Issue on ‘IT innovation in emerging economies’, Journal of Information Technology, 28, 4, pp.261-263
• Unwin, T. (2013) The Internet and Development: a critical perspective, in: Dutton, W. (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 531-54
• Kromidha, E. (2012) Strategic e-government development and the role of benchmarking, Government Information Quarterly, 29(4), 573-581.
• Unwin, T. (2012) Social media, democracy and good governance, in Commonwealth Governance Handbook 2012/13: Democracy, Development and Public Administration, London: for the Commonwealth Secretariat by Nexus, 44-46
• Unwin, T. (2012) Challenges of financing ICTs in marginal contexts, in Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Book 2012, London: Henley Media Group for the Commonwealth Secretariat, 191-194
• Unwin, T. (2012) Challenging educational norms: wisdom from the web, in: Sadowsky, G. (ed.) Accelerating Development Using the Web: Empowering Poor and Marginalized Populations, World Wide Web Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, p.119-130.
• M.K. Sein & G. Harindranath (2004) Conceptualising the ICT artefact: Towards understanding the role of ICT in national development, The Information Society, 20(1), pp. 15-24

Recent theses by members and their supervisees:

• Patrick Giwa: (2018), Technology entrepreneurship in Nigeria (co-supervision Dr. G. Harindranath with G.B. Ozcan)
• Matthew Nicolas Kreeger (2018), Exploring security verification processes in software SMEs (Supervisor Dr. G. Harindranath)
• Konstantinos Mersinas (2017) Risk Perception and Attitude in Information Security Decision-making, PhD thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London
• David Hollow (2010) Evaluating ICT for Education in Africa, PhD thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Marije Geldof (2010)  Literacy and ICT: social constructions in the lives of low-literate youth in Ethiopia and Malawi, PhD thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London

This page was last update on 21 June 2025.