Azadeh Akbari is Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Digital Transformation at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She is a European Union's Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions Global fellow for her project on Authoritarian Smart Cities. She is a member of the board of directors at the International Surveillance Studies Network and the founder and director of Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network. Her research focuses on digital authoritarianism, the use of surveillance technologies in urban spaces especially against women, and data justice.

Silvia Masiero is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research focuses on ICT4D, particularly on the role of digital platforms in socio-economic development processes, digital social protection, platform-mediated surveillance and decolonial approaches to information systems research. She is Editor-in-Chief of Information Technology for Development and Chair of the IFIP Working Group 9.4 on the Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development.

1. Introduction

Part 1: Reflect

2. Digital Development Dilemma: From Progress to Control

3. The Evolution of ICT4D: Content, Context, Process (Interview with Shirin Madon)

4. Bringing Critical ICT4D From The Margin To The Centre

5. The Interface Position of ICT4D research

Part 2: Problematise

6. The Violence of Algorithmic Systems in Social Policy in Colombia: (Re) Localising the Digital Welfare State in the Postcolonial Context

7. Digital Humanitarianism: Orthodoxy and Lived Realities

8. Reimaging Smart City Transplants for the Global South: A Post-colonial Lens on Human Rights and Digital Sovereignty

Part 3: Reconstruct

9. From Data Governance to Data Ethics: Invoking Epistemological Plurality for Enabling a Critical Turn in ICT4D

10. Design for Water Justice: Co-Developing Tools for Equitable Cities

11. Social Media and Sisterhood in Latin America: Discourse and Practice