If you are attending the WSIS+20 event in Geneva in early July, please do join our interactive session: Digital tech and the most marginalised: what still needs to be done? (also available live online) on: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2025/Agenda/Session/306.

Delighted that Hari and I received the award for "Best Collaborative and Innovation Research Project" from Royal Holloway, University of London for 2025 at our annual Festival of Research yesterday afternoon for our research-practice with many other organisations on the safe, wise and secure use of digital tech in marginalised/peripheral communities, working espcially with migrants and refugees. The background image is from one of our visits to the UNESCO offices in Nepal in 2023. For more details see: https://ict4d.org.uk/sws/, https://ict4d.org.uk/mig.../our-research-practice-in-brazil/, and https://ict4d.org.uk/technology-inequality.../interventions/ See less

Exciting to be involved in online discussion on "ICT Policies and Development Politics in the Global South" at SEADS (Monash University Malaysia) tomorrow, 18 June 2025 - to register please use this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWdT50qMqYYTeQt6PIZTOgE7ZCMV5r9EODyTAvIrW_Tsa8_w/viewform

Summary of our latest research-practice with SIHMA and migrants in South Africa - most grateful to them for all their support https://ict4d.org.uk/2025/05/19/outputs-of-collaboration-with-the-scalabrini-institute-for-human-mobility-in-africa/

The latest May 2025 update of our guidance for small civil society organisations on using digital tech safely, wisely and securely is now available, not least including SIM-Swap fraud and the latest advice on password protection https https://ict4d.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/udtsws-v6.pdf

Great looking call for applications for two fully funded PhD positions at SEADS (Southeast Asian Research Centre for Digital Technology and Society) Monash University Malaysia https://www.monash.edu.my/sass/research/focus/Southeast-Asia-Research-Future-Centre-for-Digital-Tech-and-Society-SEADS/phd-candidates Deadline is 30th June 2025.

This is encouraging news https://www.thetimes.com/.../cf665e51-70f8-400e-8702.... Students not using AI because it harms the environment and a dislike of Big Tech! Maybe the worm turneth?

Great to see our contributions to the @ITU
/ UN Partner2Connect initiative featuring in their latest briefing at https://itu.int/partner2connect/p2c-flash-edition-03/. Looking forward to requests for us to support ongoing implementations by ensuring that they address basic cybersecurity issues.

The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation’s offers fully funded scholarships for Black British undergraduates who have a household income of £25,000 or less. Scholarships are available for students starting their first year of study at one of Cowrie’s partner universities. Scholarships are currently open and available to future Cowrie Scholars at the following universities:
University of Manchester - 27 April
Oxford Brookes - 28 April
University of York - 30 April
SOAS - 30 April
University of Surrey - 1 May
Newcastle University - 2 May
Lancaster University - 2 May
Find out more: https://cowriescholarshipfoundation.org

WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW SO THAT THE POOREST AND MOST MARGINALISED CAN BENEFIT FROM USING DIGITAL TECH?
Please complete our survey at https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/rhul/digital-equity-wsis2025. Results will form part of our discussions at @WSISprocess July summit in Geneva.