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:

Data centres
Digital enterprise/startups
Digital innovation
Digital labour
Digital trade
e-/m-Business and development
ICTs and rural/agricultural development
Telecom policy

Project outputs include:

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

Digital transformation

Research topics include:

Artifical intelligence for development (AI4D)
Data-intensive development (big, open and real-time data)
Development 2.0 (crowd models, network structures)
ICT4D champions
Political economy of digital transformation
Transformative technologies and development (platforms, Industry 4.0, 3D printing, cloud, social media)

Project outputs include:

Digital inclusion

Research topics include:

Data/digital justice
Digital humanitarianism
Digital social development
Inclusive innovation

Project outputs include:

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

Digital sustainability

Research topics include:

ICTs and climate change
ICTs and resilience
Twin transition

Project outputs include:

Nexus for ICTs, Climate Change and Development

Digital theory

Research topics include:

Digital development research philosophies
Digital development research methods
Digital development theory

Project outputs include: