Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society)

Azadeh Akbari is Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Digital Transformation at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She is a European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global fellow for her project on Authoritarian Smart Cities. She is a member of the board of directors at the International Surveillance Studies Network and the founder and director of Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network. Her research focuses on digital authoritarianism, the use of surveillance technologies in urban spaces especially against women, and data justice.

Silvia Masiero is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research focuses on ICT4D, particularly on the role of digital platforms in socio-economic development processes, digital social protection, platform-mediated surveillance and decolonial approaches to information systems research. She is Editor-in-Chief of Information Technology for Development and Chair of the IFIP Working Group 9.4 on the Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development.