The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, disproportionally affecting vulnerable people and deepening pre-existing inequalities (Dreze, 2020; Qureshi, 2021), have interested the very same "development" processes that the IFIP Working Group 9.4 on the Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development has dealt with over time. A global development paradigm (Oldekop et al., 2020) has emerged in response to the global nature of the crisis, infusing new meaning in the spirit of "making a better world" with ICTs (Walsham, 2012) that always have characterised ICT4D research. Such a new meaning contextualises our research in the landscape of the first pandemic of the datafied society (Milan & Trere, 2020), coming to terms with the silencing of narratives from the margins within the pandemic (Milan et al., 2021) - in Qureshi's (2021) words, a "pandemics within the pandemic" producing new socio-economic inequities in a state of global emergency.
@article{arxiv.2108.09712,
title = {Resilient ICT4D: Building and Sustaining our Community in Pandemic Times},
author = {Silvia Masiero and Petter Nielsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09712},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
In proceedings of the 1st Virtual Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development, 2021