XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students

The newly launched XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from conference overviews to privacy and security, from HCI to cryptography. Selected blog posts, edited for print, will be featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each ...

Although mobile technology has the power to vastly improve healthcare delivery in developing regions, many issues can affect the success of mHealth systems.

Lessons learned in planning and managing a development sprint to build a flexible, open source HL7 query service while successfully collaborating with diverse stakeholders and volunteers.

Using collaborative technology as a grassroots effort to reduce violent crime in Chicago.

A personal experience with academia in Pakistan leads to using online education initiatives as an opportunity for massive improvement.

Several leading researchers from UC Berkeley share their personal research stories, opinions about the field, and advice for students interested in ICTD.

Reflections on the place of qualitative methods in ICTD work.

Researchers from around the world tell us about their personal and institutional efforts in international development.

If ICT4D aims to effectively answer the grand challenges it faces, young researchers, in both design and computer science, must be aware of the consequences of how terminology frames this field, be willing to critique and adjust research methods and ...

This article stitches together the current journey of ICTD researchers based in Africa who formed a virtual network, which hopes to contribute toward the enhancement of representation within the academic ICTD community.

How a forthcoming user experience (UX) lab will meet the needs of the African technology community.