The Collective

The ICT4D Collective was initiated in 2004 and is a group of people committed to undertaking the highest possible quality of research in the field of ICT4D, and making the results of this available freely to the global community. We do this primarily in the interests of poor people and marginalised communities, wherever they may be found. Membership of the Collective implies adherence to its basic principles of membership and partnership. In 2007, the Collective was awarded the Status of a UNESCO Chair in ICT4D.

As well as research, the Collective undertakes teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and contributes to the delivery of focused short courses on all aspects of ICT4D. Members of the Collective also provide consultancy services in the field of ICT4D.

Based at Royal Holloway, University of London, the Collective draws on the expertise of staff, postgraduates and undergraduates in the academic Departments and Schools of Geography, Computer Science, Management, and the New Political Communication Unit in Politics and International Relations, as well as in the Information Services Department and the Educational Development Centre.

We welcome collaborative work with colleagues across the world who share our core objectives, and wish to establish partnerships with us to deliver practical ICT4D activities that will empower poor people.

Learn about the Collective through the voices of its members

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About the Collective in your own language:

• Dr. David Barnes (Technology and Information Management Group, School of Management)
• Roberta Bernardi (Technology and Information Management Group, School of Management)
• Lisa Cespedes (Volunteer, Department of Geography)
• Dr. Andy Chadwick (New Political Communication Unit, Politics and International Relations)
• Dr. Carlos Cid (Information Security Group, Department of Mathematics)
• Dr. Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon (Technology and Information Management Group, School of Management)
• Laura Gibbs (IT Director, Information Services)
• Dr. G. Harindranath (Technology and Information Management Group, School of Management)
• Dr. Philip Johnson (Contracts and IP Officer, Research and Enterprise)
• Dr. Martin King (Department of Earth Sciences)
• Dr. Dorothea Kleine (Geography) (Project Manager of the EPSRC Fair Tracing Project)
• Dr. Alex Loftus (Geography)
• Prof. Fionn Murtagh (Computer Science)
• Dr. Thao Nguyen (Geography, Newton Fellow)
• Prof. David Simon (Geography)
• Dr. Kostas Stathis (Computer Science)
• Win Min Tun (Geography)
• Tim Unwin (Geography, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D)
• Weili Wang (IT Services Manager, Psychology)
• Dr. Katie Willis (Geography; Director of the Centre for Developing Areas Research)
• Dr. Meng Xingmin (Geography)

Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London

• Dr. Michelle Selinger (Cisco Systems )

Associate Members of the Collective

• Khalid Abu Arja (Professional Services Manager, Qatar, Gulf Business Machine-GBM)
• Shahid Uddin Akbar (CEO, Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development)
• John Alwala (Maseno University, Kenya)
• Ilaria Amerise (University of Calabria, Italy)
• Prof. Jophus Anamuah-Mensah (Former Vice Chancellor, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana)
• Anne Augustine (Head of Sustainability, Edelman)
• Afifa Aza (Institute for Sustainable Development, University of West Indies, Mona)
• Eric Baber (Content Innovations Director, Cambridge University Press)
• Ken Banks (Founder kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS)
• Dr. Boubakar Barry (Co-ordinator, Research and Education Networking Unit, Association of African Universities)
• Elfneh Bariso (Institute of Education, University of London, and Action for Health, Education and Development)
• Caitlin Bentley (Canadian Crossroads International)
• Dr. Andrea Berardi (Open University, UK)
• Godfred Bonnah Nkansah (Ghana)
• Rebekka Campbell (Producer, illuminadigitalltd)
• Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni (Director NewMinE and webatelier.net Labs at Università della Svizzera italiana)
• Geraldine de Bastion (Newthinking Communications)
• Prof. I.M. Dharmadasa (Sheffield Hallam University)
• Dr. Abs Dumbuya (Chairman, The Dorothy Springer Trust)
• Richard Duncombe (Programme Director of the MSc Management and Information Systems at the University of Manchester)
• Feliciana Eduardo (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique)
• Julie Ferguson (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
• Prof. Luciano Floridi (Research Chair in Philosophy of Information, University of Hertfordshire; Fellow of St. Cross College, University of Oxford)
• Dr. Xiaolan Fu (Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
• Victor Gathara (DFID, Kenya)
• Dr. Marije Geldof
• Karsten Gerloff (Free Software Foundation Europe; in a personal capacity)
• Andrea Goetzke (Newthinking Communications)
• Tersia Gowases (Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Finland)
• Dom Graveson
• Teresa Graziano (Università degli Studi di Catania)
• Jon Gregson (Director of Global Networks and Communities, University of London External System)
• Aman Grewal (London School of Economics)
• David Grimshaw (Senior Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies, Department for International Development, UK; and PracticalAction)
• Swatantra Gupta (Khushii - Kinship for Humanitarian Social and Holistic Intervention in India)
• Patrick Hall (Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, at Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur, Nepal)
• Jasmine Harvey (Research Associate, University of Nottingham, UK)
• Peter Hellmonds (Nokia Siemens Networks, Corporate Affairs)
• Abdullahi Hussein (Refugee Council, UK)
• Russell Johnson (Massey University, New Zealand)
• Faryal Khan (Programme Specialist UNESS, UNESCO, Paris)
• Zelmira Koch (Senior Advisor, Chartwell Education)
• Dr. Emmanuel C. Lallana (Chief Executive, ideacorp, the Philippines)
• Harsha Liyange (Fusion, UK and Sri Lanka)
• Anna Lowe (CEO, Innovonix)
• Prof. Rose Luckin (London Knowledge Lab)
• Dr. Simon de Lusignan (St. George's University of London)
• Claude Luttgens (Consultant in Education and Technology)
• David Mandiyanike (Political and Administrative Studies, University of Botswana)
• Dr. Vanessa Frias Martinez (Telefonica R&D, Spain)
• Avril McIntyre (CEO LifeLine)
• Dr. Mary McPalm (University of Education, Winneba, Ghana)
• Prof. Sugata Mitra (Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University)
• Maria-Jose Montero (Programa de Ética Empresarial y Económica at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile )
• Karlijn Morsink (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Dr. Catherine Muhoma (Director of Town Campus, Maseno University, Kenya)
• Xavier Muianga (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique)
• Associate Professor Inocente Vasco Mutimucuio (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique)
• Betty Ogange (Open University, UK)
• Leonard Mware Oloo (ICWE, Kenya)
• Lidia Oshlyansky (Univesity of Swansea)
• Dr. Joyojeet Pal (Technology and Social Change Group, University of Washington)
• Prof. Brasilina Passarelli (Escola do Futura, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
• Stuart Peters
• Yamandu Ploskonka
• Peter Rave (Co-ordinator for ICT4D, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH)
• Carlton Reeve (Learning Director, DESQ)
• Isabella Rega (New Media in Education Laboratory, University of Lugano, Switzerland)
• Michael Riggs (Knowledge and Information Management Officer and e-Agriculture Facilitator, FAO, Italy)
• Alex Robinson (Country Director Indonesia
  Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) Deutschland)
• Mike Roch (Director of IT Services, University of Reading)
• Clint Rogers (Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Finland)
• Dr. Ståle Angen Rye (School of Management, University of Agder, Norway)
• Simone Sala (Faculty of Agriculture, University of Milan, Italy)
• Dr. Yutaka Sato (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)
• Edward Scotcher (formerly of BBC Vision, Learning Innovations Unit)
• Emma Shercliff (Macmillan)
• Dr. Mukul Shrivastava (University of Lucknow)
• Jamie Singleton (LifeLine Network International)
• Thomas Smyth (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA)
• Christian M. Stracke (Convener ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36/WG5, Vice-Chair CEN/TC 353, HR, E-Learning and QM Project Manager University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Prof. Erkki Sutinen (Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, Finland)
• Jo Tacchi (Senior Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC) of Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• Dr. Simon Taylor (School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University)
• Karim Toledano (Switzerland)
• Prof. John Traxler (University of Wolverhampton)
• Joshua Underwood (London Knowledge Lab)
• Dr. Alasdair Unwin
• Katrin Verclas (MobileActive.org)
• Gudrun Wicander (Karlstad University, Sweden)
• Dr. Niall Winters (London Knowledge Lab)
• Marco Zennaro (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy)

PhD students at Royal Holloway, University of London

• Andrea Burris (Geography) Neoliberal Discourses of Creativity and the Dvision of Labour between “East” and “West” in ICT production
• Auchariya Yongphrayoon (Geography) - GIS for mass land valuation in Thailand
• Charles Howie (Geography) - Farmer decision making in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
• David Crespo (Geography) - Internet and web applications
• David Hollow (Geography) - Evaluation of use of ICT for education in Africa
• Endrit Kromidha (Management) - e-Government, marketing and power
• Fernanda Scur (Geography) - Systems approaches to ICT in Brazil
• Jorrit Mulder (Geography) Open Educational Resources as a driver for higher education in Sub Saharan Africa
• Man Xu (Geography) - Disparities resulting from the "Great Leap Forward": implications of imbalanced regional economic development in China
• Márton Kocsev (Geography) e-Capacity Development
• Meera Sarma (Management) - Free and Open Source Software and the business community in 'developing' countries
• Niels Peter Nielsen (Geography) - Mobile technologies and rural development
• Paolo Brunello (Geography) ICT for education in Burundi
• Salma Abbasi (Geography) - ICTs and gender empowerment in the Islamic world
• Uduak Okon (Geography) - ICTs and sustainable development in Nigeria
• Ugo Vallauri (Geography) - ICT4D and grassroots rural community development
• Visara Urovi (Computer Science) Co-ordinated infrastructures for agent oriented distributed workflow management
• Xiaoqing Li (Management) - Higher education partnerships between China and the UK

Master's students at Royal Holloway, University of London

• Bjorn Everts (Geography)

Postgraduate students being supervised externally by members of the Collective

• Paula Morais (ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal) - Master's thesis on digital inclusion and people with special needs

Recently completed Master's dissertations

• David Hollow (Geography) - Evaluating radio usage for education in Zambia (2005-6)
• James Crawley (Geography) - ICTs and education in Zambia (2005-6)
• Sian Aggett (Geography) - Film, gender and youth in Honduras (2005-6)
• Niels Peter Nielsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) (2006-7) - Master's thesis on contemporary change in Georgian rural society
• Godfred Bonnah Nkansah (Geography) ICTs and special education needs in Ghana (2009)

Recently completed PhDs

• Abbas Akhoundi (Geography, 2006) Globalization, the Nation-State and National Economic Policy Making: The Attitudes of Iran’s Elites
• Yenn Lee (Politics and International Relations, 2009) Civic engagement and the internet, focusing on the 2002 presidential election in South Korea
• Marije Geldof (Geography, 2010) Literacy and ICT: social constructions in the lives of low-literate youth in Ethiopia and Malawi