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Giving Thanks: Top 15 Digital Development Blogs Focused on LMICs
ICTworks, November 27 (2025)
"Analysis of the 15 most influential ICT4D blogs reveals three dominant meta-themes reshaping the field in the last few years. None of these topics should surprise long-term ICTworks readers: responsible AI deployment and governance; digital public infrastructure as foundational systems; critical po
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Indigenous knowledge and information technology for sustainable development
Information Technology for Development (2025), 18 pp.
"Despite the proliferation of IT applications worldwide, Indigenous knowledge remains marginalized in the mainstream information technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) discourse. This special section explores tensions and opportunities at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and digital te
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Metastudie "Nachhaltigkeitseffekte der Digitalisierung": Eine Auswertung aktueller Studien zur (quantitativen) Bemessung der Umwelteffekte durch die Digitalisierung
Berlin: Technopolis; Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (2024), ix, 96 pp.
"In dieser Studie werden auf Basis der Literaturanalyse eine Vielzahl an Anwendungsfällen mit besonders hohen Potenzialen für positive Umwelteffekte identifiziert. Insbesondere im Energiebereich gibt es eine Vielzahl von vergleichsweise gut erforschten Anwendungsfällen. Hierzu zählt beispielswei
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AI and the Environment: International Standards for AI and the Environment
Geneva: ITU (2024), vi, 43 pp.
"International standards provide the guidelines and benchmarks needed to measure and improve the environmental impact of AI. Codifying established best practices, standards help mitigate risks such as high energy consumption and lifecycle emissions. They also provide measurement methodologies to ass
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Digitale Medien und Nachhaltigkeit: Medienpraktiken für ein gutes Leben
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2022), xi, 277 pp.
"Wie nutzen Individuen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Unternehmen digitale Medien, um zu einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft beizutragen? Die Autorin rekonstruiert in dieser Open-Access-Publikation die sozial-ökologischen Folgen aktueller Digitalisierungsprozesse und zeigt anhand dreier Fallstudien
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Counter the Digital Monoculture: Building an Inclusive Environment
Hivos (2022), 45 pp.
"Hivos sees vital opportunities to support creatives and build alternative digital spaces and activist communities that will stand up to the digital monoculture. They are essential if we want to imagine and work towards a more humane and sustainable digital future. In 'Counter the Digital Monocultur
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Künstliche Intelligenz: So lässt sie sich nachhaltiger gestalten
Berlin: Algorithm Watch; Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (iöw); DAI-Labor (2022), 58 pp.
"Eine Zahl taucht immer wieder in der Diskussion zur Nachhaltigkeit von KI auf: Die Emissionen, die in der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsphase großer Sprachmodelle anfallen, entsprechen den Emissionen von fünf Autos während ihrer gesamten Laufzeit. Diese Zahl stammt aus einer wegweisenden Analyse v
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Digitalisierung zukunftsfähig und nachhaltig gestalten: Politische Forderungen der Bits & Bäume 2022
Bits & Bäume (2022), 13 pp.
"Im Jahr 2022 richten 13 Organisationen aus Umweltschutz, Digitalpolitik, Entwicklungspolitik und Wissenschaft gemeinsam mit einer engagierten Community die zweite Konferenz für Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit »Bits & Bäume« aus. Denn wir sind überzeugt: Es braucht politische Veränderungen,
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Der Wert der Digitalisierung: Gemeinwohl in der digitalen Welt
Bielefeld: transcript (2021), 437 pp.
"Wie wahren wir die Menschen-, Grund- und Bürgerrechte? Und wie können wir unsere Werte für die Gestaltung disruptiver Innovationen und der digitalen Zukunft nutzen? Die Autor*innen aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Praxis zeigen auf, wie technologische Phänomene mit unseren Werten in Einklang gebra
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Klimaschutz durch digitale Technologien – Chancen und Risiken: Kurzstudie
Berlin: Telekommunikation und neue Medien Bitkom Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft (2020), 58 pp.
Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2020), 268 pp.
"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose
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Lean ICT: Towards Digital Sobriety
Shift Project (2019), 89 pp.
"The current trend for digital overconsumption in the world is not sustainable with respect to the supply of energy and materials it requires. Digital transition as it is implemented at present results from a considerable expansion of the direct energy footprint of digital technologies, with an annu
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Unsere gemeinsame digitale Zukunft
Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) (2019), xxviii, 485 pp.
"So wie der Brundtland-Bericht mit dem Titel „Unsere gemeinsame Zukunft“ 1987 das Konzept der nachhaltigen Entwicklung entworfen hat, skizziert der WBGU in diesem Gutachten „Unsere gemeinsame digitale Zukunft“ das Konzept der digitalisierten Nachhaltigkeitsgesellschaft. Dieses Gutachten stel
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Action Steps: A Decade of Civil Society Advocacy in the Information Society. A Baseline Review of the Global Information Society Watch Country Reports (2007-2017)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 80 pp.
"This review looks back over 11 years of civil society advocacy in the information society – a total of 510 country reports published in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) from 2007 to 2017. It covers a period of important global shifts, from the exponential growth and influence of social
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SDG ICT Playbook: From Innovation to Impact
NetHope; Intel; Catholic Relief Services (CRS); Microsoft; CDW (2015), 66 pp.
"The playbook addresses ten technology areas and explores how each might be applied to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We provide a basic overview of each, discuss benefits, trends and challenges and make recommendations for what nonprofits, governments and the private sector can do
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Organizational Guide to ICT4D: Leveraging Technology for International Development
NetHope; Catholic Relief Services (CRS); Health Communication Capacity Collaborative; Microsoft (2014), 40 pp.
"This guide gives practical guidance to building organizational capacity in ICT4D. Drawing from the experience of the international development community, this guide connects established principles with processes for implementing new technology. 1. Why should I be interested in ICT4D and what does i
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A Practical Guide to Sustainable IT
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2012), 167 pp.
"This practical guide to sustainable IT offers a detailed, hands-on introduction to thinking about sustainable computing holistically; starting with the choices you make when buying technology, the software and peripherals you use, through to how you store and work with information, manage your secu
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Unveiling the Links Between ICTs and Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Scoping Study
Manchester: University of Manchester Institute for Development Policy and Management Centre for Development Informatics; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 59 pp.
"The main structure of the document consists of four parts. The first provides the reader with the 'big picture' of ICTs and climate change, based on a review of existing literature and identification of the main phases that have characterized the debate to date (Figure 1). Based on the above, the a
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Global Information Society Watch 2010: Focus on ICTs and Environmental Sustainability
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2010), 244 pp.
ICTs for Development: Improving Policy Coherence
Paris: OECD (2009), 203 pp.