Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)

CS491/591 • Spring 2026 • University of New Mexico

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Curated Book List

Choose one of the books below for the Midterm Critical Review Paper.

HFOSS & Open Source Communities:

  1. Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking by Gabriella Coleman
  2. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software by Christopher M. Kelty
  3. The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber
  4. Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
  5. The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

Technology & Development (ICTD):

  1. Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology by Kentaro Toyama
  2. Technology of the Oppressed by David Nemer
  3. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
  4. Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India by Lilly Irani
  5. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World by Arturo Escobar
  6. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds by Arturo Escobar

Critical Perspectives (Feminism, Justice, Data):

  1. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
  2. Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri
  3. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin
  4. Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
  5. All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society by Yanni Alexander Loukissas
  6. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez