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, Mathematics (Information Security Group) 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

Contact Us

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)
• Dr. Andy Chadwick (New Political Communication Unit, Politics and International Relations)
• Dr. Carlos Cid (Information Security Group, Department of Mathematics)
• Lizzie Coles-Kemp (Department of Mathematics, Information Security Group; Principal Investigator on the VOME project)
• 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; Director of Practising Sustainabe Development Master's programme)
• 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)
• Yingqin Zheng (School of Management)

Visiting Staff at Royal Holloway, University of London

• Visiting Professor: David Grimshaw (PracticalAction)

Post-Doc Affiliates of the Collective

• Dr. Marije Geldof (D-Tree International)
• David Hollow (Jigsaw Consult)
• Graca Brightwell (PDRA for the project 'Leveraging buying power for development - ethical consumption and public procurement in Chile and Brazil')

Associate Members of the Collective

• Khaled Fares Abuarja (Country Manager, Qatar, Devoteam)
• Shahid Uddin Akbar (CEO, Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development)
• Linda Alexander (Langara College school of Management, Vancouver, Canada)
• 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)
• Kojo Boakye (head of Research and Consultancy at the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation)
• 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)
• Dr. Andrea Berardi (Open University, UK)
• Vashkar Bhattacharjee (Young Power in Social Action, Bangaldesh)
• Godfred Bonnah Nkansah (Ghana)
• Rebekka Campbell (Editor, Bitesize, BBC)
• Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni (Director NewMinE and webatelier.net Labs at Università della Svizzera italiana)
• Lisa Cespedes
• Geraldine de Bastion (Newthinking Communications)
• Peter Dell'Osa (formerly, Project Manager of ICTD2010)
• 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)
• Gavin Dykes (Director, Cellcove Ltd)
• Feliciana Eduardo (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique)
• Ulf-Daniel Ehlers (Institute for Media and Educational Technology, University of Augsburg, Germany)
• 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 (IT consultancy, Kenya)
• 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 (Head of Knowledge Services, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
• Aman Grewal (London School of Economics)
• Natalia Grincheva (UCL)
• Swatantra Gupta (Smile Foundation, 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)
• Melissa Highton (Head of the Learning Technologies Group, Oxford University Computing Services, UK)
• Abdullahi Hussein (Refugee Council, UK)
• Dr. Guillaume Iyenda
• Russell Johnson (Massey University, New Zealand)
• Faryal Khan (Programme Specialist UNESS, UNESCO, Paris)
• Hyeon-a Kim (UNESCO)
• 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 )
• Paula Morais
• Karlijn Morsink (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Dr. Catherine Muhoma (Director of Town Campus, Maseno University, Kenya)
• Xavier Muianga (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique)
• Georgina Mumba (Statistician, Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources, Zambia)
• Associate Professor Inocente Vasco Mutimucuio (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique)
• Azra Naseem (Head of e-Learning and Open Learning, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan)
• Niels Peter Nielsen
• 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
• dr.ir. Wolter Pieters (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente )
• Yamandu Ploskonka
• Razamin Ramli (School of Quantitative Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia)
• Peter Rave (formerly 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)
• 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
• Dr. Mukul Shrivastava (University of Lucknow)
• Claire Sibthorpe (Maple Consulting Services)
• Javier Simó (Departamento de Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones, Universisad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain; and Technical Director, EHAS)
• 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)
• Paula Uimonen (Director, SPIDER)
• Dr. Alasdair Unwin
• Regina Valiullina (WSIS Stocktaking, ITU)
• Katrin Verclas (MobileActive.org)
• Gudrun Wicander (Karlstad University, Sweden)
• Dr. Niall Winters (London Knowledge Lab)
• Dr. Alvin Yeo (Director, Centre of Excellence for Rural Informatics (COERI); Universiti Malaysia Sarawak - UNIMAS)
• 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
• Caitlin Bentley (Geography) - ICTs and Knowledge Sharing for Development
• Endrit Kromidha (Management) - e-Government, marketing and power
• Fernanda Scur (Geography) - Systems approaches to ICT in Brazil
• Man Xu (Geography) - Disparities resulting from the "Great Leap Forward": implications of imbalanced regional economic development in China
• Márton Kocsev (Geography) e-Capacity Development
• Paolo Brunello (Geography) - ICT for education in Burundi
• Saeid Sadeghi (Geography) - Mobile technologies and ethnic identity
• Salma Abbasi (Geography) - ICTs and gender empowerment in the Islamic world
• Sammia Poveda (Geography) - Capability appraoches and digital inclusion in Latin America
• Tony Roberts (Geography) - Critical agency in ICT4D
• Ugo Vallauri (Geography) - ICT4D and grassroots rural community development
• Visara Urovi (Computer Science) Co-ordinated infrastructures for agent oriented distributed workflow management

Master's students at Royal Holloway, University of London

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)
• Bjorn Everts (Geography) Computer based learning for youth in India (2010)

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
• Xiaoqing Li (Management, 2010) - Higher education partnerships between China and the UK
• Marije Geldof (Geography, 2010) Literacy and ICT: social constructions in the lives of low-literate youth in Ethiopia and Malawi
• David Hollow (Geography, 2010) Evaluating ICT for Education in Africa
• Meera Sarma (Management, 2010) Innovation in Hacker Communities: Structure and Knowledge in the Process of Developing Open Source Software
• Charles Howie (Geography, 2011) Cooperation and contestation: farmer-state relations in agricultural transformation, An Giang Province, Vietnam
• Uduak Okon (Geography, 2011) - ICTs and sustainable community development in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria

Recently completed MPhils

• David Crespo (MPhil 2011) – Mobile ‘phones and rural health workers in Peru: the potential of m-health in isolated rural areas of Peru (also published in book form by Lambert)
• Auchariya Yongphrayoon (MPhil 2010) Hedonic price models and GIS for mass land valuation in Thailandh