Information and Communication Technologies for Development

Abstract

This book presents the collection of papers selected for presentation at the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 9.4 16th International Conference organized under the banner of the Third European Conference on the Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries. The conference was hosted in Manchester, UK, by the University of Salford in June 2020.
Research papers published in this volume address ICT-related research challenges in Africa, Asia, and South America, including: Bangladesh, Brazil, Lebanon, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine, South Africa, and Rwanda. Despite being Convened as a European Conference, we were delighted to have facilitated such a global perspective on ICT4D.
We received 29 submissions which were each single-blind peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. As a consequence of this process, 14 papers were accepted and selected for presentation at the conference. A further 4 papers were conditionally accepted, subject to refinement using more detailed feedback and advice from reviewers. 10 papers were given detailed feedback but not accepted. The authors of these papers have been encouraged to revise their papers for submission to the next global conference, to be held in Peru during 2021–now postponed to 2022. Sadly, one accepted paper was withdrawn by the authors.

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020
• Start Date: Jun 10, 2020
• End Date: Jun 11, 2020
• Publication Date: Jun 11, 2020
• Deposit Date: Dec 18, 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Book Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
• ISBN: 9783030658274; 9783030658281
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1