Members of the ICT4D Collective undertake a very wide range of research relevant to the SDGs, although many members are critical of this agenda (see, for example, the work of The Digital Environment System Coalition (DESC)). The following is a quick checklist of our research interests broken down by their impact on the SDGs, and also provides an indication of our areas of consultancy expertise:
- Ravi Bhandari
- Ahmed Imran: Digital Inequality and Social Change
- Endrit Kromidha: Entrepreneurship and innovation for development
- Tim Unwin: Critical Theory, Equity and Empowerment
- Heloisa Melino: Food sovereignty with Black LBT women in Maré (Ajeum Favelado project, from October 2026)
- Heloisa Melino: Digital safety and mental health: misinformation and online harms
- Marije Geldof: Mobile devices for enhanced health delivery in Africa
- Maureen Ayikoru: vaccine hesitancy among healthcare professionals
- David Hollow: Research Director EdTech Hub
- Hari Harindranath: Critical reflections on digital tech in higher education teaching and learning
- Heloisa Melino: Training on the safe, wise and secure use of digital tech in favelas
- Lenandler Singh: Mobile learning
- Maureen Ayikoru: adolescent reproductive health rights and education
- Paul Spiesberger: Higher software engineering education
- Tim Unwin: Digital tech and education policy; teacher training
- Akber Gardezi: Women’s employment in the digital tech sector
- Bushra Hassan: Sexual harassment and digital tech
- Endrit Kromidha: Women entrepreneurship networks and digitalisation
- Heloisa Melino: Gender, LGBTI+ rights and digital security
- Tim Unwin: TEQtogether
- Ravi Bhandari: Green technologies for rural enterprises
- The Digital Environment System Coalition (DESC)
- Endrit Kromidha: Identity and empowerment in entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Hari Harindranath: Migrants and digital tech, Small and medium enterprises
- Maria Rosa Lorini: Migrants and digital tech
- Ravi Bhandari: Green technologies for rural enterprises
- Vignesh Ilaravasan: Small and medium enterprises, the shared economy
- Endrit Kromidha: Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Hari Harindranath: Digital innovation
- Marco Zennaro: Wireless infrastructures and TV White Spaces
- Ahmed Imran: Digital Inequality and Social Change
- Hari Harindranath: Migrants, inequalities and digital tech
- Heloisa Melino: Decolonial and peripheral epistemologies; inequalities in urban peripheries
- Maria Rosa Lorini: Migrants, inequalities and digital tech
- Joelle Mak: Migrants, inequalities and digital tech
- Tim Unwin: Critical Theory, Equity and Empowerment
- The Digital Environment System Coalition (DESC)
- Heloisa Melino: Community care and urban planning in favelas
- Ravi Bhandari: Green technologies for rural enterprises
- Vigneswara Ilavarasan: The Shared Economy
- The Digital Environment System Coalition (DESC)
- Heloisa Melino: Just transitions, care and food sovereignty in favelas (Waves of Care; Ajeum Favelado)
- Ahmed Imran: e-Government and e-Governance
- Endrit Kromidha: Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Heloisa Melino: Access to justice, human rights education and digital rights; Brazil’s SDG 18 on ethnic and racial equality
- Hari Harindranath: Local, national and international stakeholders in digital tech, migration and development
- Heloisa Melino: Brazil-UK partnerships with favela-based organisations
- Tim Unwin: Multi-sector partnerships in ICT4D
