Below are links to some of the sites I have found useful or interesting, along with a few that are simply personal favourites and come highly recommended. I have tried to avoid the obvious big-names (The BBC, World Bank/IMF, Oxfam etc.) which I am sure everyone already knows about, and concentrate on some less obvious and alternative sources of information or entertainment:
Useful websites for Digital Development
- Centre for Development Informatics at University of Manchester
- Blogs by well known ICT4D academics Richard Heeks and Tim Unwin
- ICTology – another good ICT4D Blog
- Who I follow on Twitter (mainly ICT4D or related professionals)
- Facebook group on ICT4D
- International Network for Postgraduate Students in ICT4D
- The Communication Initiative Network – ICT4D theme pages
- infoDev – a technology / innovation partnership within the World Bank
- The Association for Progressive Communications
- The Development Gateway (and its knowledge-sharing portal Zunia)
- Technology Review – useful magazine for seeing upcoming technologies and trends
Alternative sources of News & Global Politics
- The New Statesman – UK weekly progressive current affairs magazine covering global issues
- The Guardian on Global Development – excellent all-round and easily digestible development news source
- Z Magazine & Z Communications – collection of writing on domestic and global political issues from alternative, progressive authors
Participatory Development and Design
- International Institute for Environment and Development – participation theme (and links to Participatory Learning and Action publications)
- Research team on Governance, Power and Participation at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (team led by the renowned Robert Chambers)
Matt Haikin 