Themes

Research at the Centre for Digital Development aims to create just and sustainable digital futures for development, and is centred around five key areas.

The Centre for Digital Development (CDD) researches the role of digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital data in global development. CDD's work focuses on the following main themes:

Digital economy

Research topics include:

Digital enterprise/startups
Digital innovation
Digital labour and responsible outsourcing
ICT and telecom policy
ICTs and rural/agricultural development
e-/m-Business and development

Project outputs include:

Fairwork action research project on decent work standards in the gig economy
Digital Trade Tracker
Development Implications of Digital Economies research network

Digital transformation

Research topics include:

Development 2.0 (crowd models, network structures)
Data-intensive development (big, open and real-time data) and data justice
Transformative technologies and development (platforms, Industry 4.0, 3D printing, cloud, social media)
ICT4D champions
Political economy of digital transformation

Project outputs include:

Digital inclusion

Research topics include:

Development 2.0 (open development, IT impact sourcing, online citizen science)
Community informatics
Inclusive innovation

Project outputs include:

Do No Harm: Ethical Humanitarian Innovation and Digital Bodies project
New Models of Inclusive Innovation for Development special issue
SMARThealth project preventing cardiovascular disease among older people

Digital sustainability

Research topics include:

e-Resilience
ICTs and climate change
e-Waste

Project outputs include:

Nexus for ICTs, Climate Change and Development

Digital theory

Research topics include:

Actor-network theory
Institutional logics
Digital development research philosophies
Digital research methods

Project outputs include: