Publications

Research papers related to the W4RA project

Bon, A., Saa-Dittoh, F., Akkermans, H. (2024). Bridging the Digital Divide. In: Werthner, H., et al. Introduction to Digital Humanism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45304-5_19

Panayiotou, A., Saa-Dittoh, F., & Bon, A. (2023, August). Resourcing Small Indigenous Languages in the Field. In International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (pp. 527-538). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.  [author’s version]

Saa-Dittoh, F., Connecting the Unconnected: Decolonising ICTs for the Developing World. In Vermeulen, I. (Ed.) Connected World: Insights from 100 Academics on How to Build Better Connections, VU University Press, Amsterdam (2023)

Anna Bon, André Baart, Lucas de Lange, Mohamed Coulibaly, Wendelien Tuijp (2023) – Decolonizing food systems through the plug-in principle – The case of cereal seed value chains in Mali. Chapter Contribution to the Plug-in Principle by Saa Dittoh et al (Eds.)  in prep.

Stan, G. V., Baart, A., Dittoh, F., Akkermans, H., & Bon, A. (2022, June). A Lightweight Downscaled Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition for Small Indigenous Languages. In 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022 (pp. 451-458). https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3539017

Anna Bon, Francis Dittoh, Gossa Lô, Mónica Pini, Robert Bwana, Cheah WaiShiang, Narayanan Kulathuramayir, André Baart (2022) Decolonizing Technology and Society: A Perspective from the Global South. In: Werthner H., Prem E., Lee E.A., Ghezzi C. (eds) Perspectives on Digital Humanism. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_9

Akkermans H., Gordijn J., Bon A. (2022) Return to Freedom: Governance of Fair Innovation Ecosystems. In: Werthner H., Prem E., Lee E.A., Ghezzi C. (eds) Perspectives on Digital Humanism. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_8

Dittoh, F., Akkermans, H. De Boer, V. Bon, A. Tuyp, W. and Baart, A. (2021) “Tibaŋsim: Information Access for Low-Resource Environments” in Yang, X.S., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2021, London, UK, Vol. 1, Singapore: Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-2377-6_62

Huser, D., Bon, A., & Anifalaje, A. (2021). Uncovering generative mechanisms of information use for project monitoring in humanitarian health management information systems. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, e12184. [PDF]

Anna Bon.  What better informs ICT4D : desktop or field study? Bookreview of  Chib et al. (Eds.) Critical Perspectives on Open Development. Empirical Interrogation of Theory Construction. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, pre-print May 2021 [PDF].

Francis Dittoh, Hans Akkermans, Victor de Boer, Anna Bon, Wendelien Tuyp, and André Baart. February 2021. Tibaŋsim: Information Access for Low-Resource Environments. Conference proceedings by Springer AISC. ISBN Number – 2194-5357 Series.   [PDF].

Sophie Vos, Hella Schaefers, Patricia Lago, Anna Bon. Sustainability and Ethics by Design in the Development of Digital Platforms for Low-Resource Environments. December 2020. Amsterdam Sustainability Institute Integrative Project. Technical Report. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. [PDF].

Dittoh, F., Akkermans, H., De Boer, V., Bon, A., Tuyp, W., & Baart, A. (2020, June). Information Access for Low-Resource Environments. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (pp. 325-326).

Anna Bon. Intervention or Collaboration?  Redesigning Information and Communication Technologies for Development. 15 December 2020,  PhD Thesis, Maastricht University. [PDF].

Sophie Vos, Hella Schaefers, Patricia Lago, Anna Bon. Towards Sustainability and Equality in Digital Development —
A case study of the cereal seed value chain in rural Mali. October 2020. In press. IFIP WG 9.4 [PDF].

Francis Dittoh, Victor de Boer, Anna Bon, Wendelien Tuyp, André Baart. Mr. Meteo: Providing Climate Information for the Unconnected. 2020. In 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci ’20 Companion). July 6-10, 2020, Southampton, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3394332.3402824 [PDF] [Presentation slides].

Anna Bon & Hans Akkermans. Digital (In) Equality, Digital Inclusion, Digital Humanism: Summary of the Web Science Workshop DigDivDigHum-20. 2020. In 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci ’20 Companion). July 6-10, 2020, Southampton, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3394332.3402893 [PDF] [Presentation slides].

Anna Bon, Jaap Gordijn and Cheah Wai Shiang. Digital inclusion requires a business model too. Sustainability analysis of value webs in rural Sarawak. 2020. In 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci ’20 Companion). July 6-10, 2020, Southampton, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3394332.3402832 [PDF] [Presentation slides].

Gossa Lô, Victor de Boer, Chris J. van Aart, Exploring West African Folk Narrative Text Using Machine Learning. 2020. MDPI  11(5), 236. [PDF].

Anna Bon, Derek van den Nieuwenhuijzen, Hans Akkermans  (Eds.) Wouter de Boer, Carlbandro Edoga, Marc Hegeman, Christine Dedding,  & Nicole Goedhart. Digital Divide, Citizenship and Inclusion in Amsterdam. February 2020. ISBN: 978-90-78289-22-7 Pangea,  Amsterdam. [PDF].

Anna Bon, Mónica Pini & Hans Akkermans (Eds.) Culture Citizenship, Participation. Comparative Perspectives from Latin America on Inclusive Education. September 2019. ISBN: 978-90-78289-17-3 Pangea, Amsterdam. [PDF].

Anna Bon & Mónica Pini (Eds.) Cultura, ciudadanía, participación. Perspectivas de la educación inclusiva. Septiembre 2019. ISBN:978-90-78289-15-9 Pangea, Amsterdam. [PDF].

Anna Bon. Intervention or Collaboration ? Rethinking Information and Communication Technologies for Development.  March 2019. ISBN: 978-90-78289-11-1 Pangea, Amsterdam. [PDF].

André Baart, Anna Bon, Victor de Boer, Francis Dittoh, Wendelien Tuyp, Hans Akkermans. Affordable Voice Services to Bridge the Digital Divide: Presenting the Kasadaka Platform, in Selected Papers from the WEBIST 2018 International Conference, Springer LNBIP Book Series, Berlin, Germany, 2019, in press. Authors’ version: [PDF].

Anna Bon and Hans Akkermans [2019] “Digital Development: Elements of a Critical ICT4D Theory and Praxis”. In: P. Nielsen and H. C. Kimaro (Eds.): Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern- Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D, IFIP AICT 552, Chapter 3, Springer Nature Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_3 . Author’s version  [PDF]

Anna Bon, Jaap Gordijn, Hans Akkermans, Victor de Boer, André Baart, Cheah Wai Shiang and Sze San Nah [2019]. “Community-centered, Project-based  ICT4D Education in the Field”. In: P. Nielsen and H. C. Kimaro (Eds.): Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern- Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D, IFIP AICT 552, Chapter 32, Springer Nature Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_32 . Authors’ version [PDF].

Baart, A., Bon, A., De Boer, V., Tuijp, W. & Akkermans, H., “Ney Yibeogo – Hello World: A voice service development platform to bridge the web’s digital divide.” 2018 WEBIST 2018 – Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. Escalona, M. J., Monfort, V., Majchrzak, T. A. & Mayo, F. J. D. (eds.). SciTePress, p. 23-34 12 p.
[PDF].

Anna Bon, Victor de Boer, Christophe Guéret, Gayo Diallo, Jaap Gordijn (editors). Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D”, Co-located with 10th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci’18)  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 27, 2018 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2120/

Chris Reij. Abstract of keynote at the 5th International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D” co-located with the 10th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci’18), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 27, 2018. [PDF].

Reshmi Sarkar and Jaap Gordijn. “Modeling Communities in e3value.” 2018 [PDF].

Gossa Lô, Victor de Boer, Stefan Schlobach, and Gayo Diallo. 2018. Linking African Traditional Medicine Knowledge. DOI:https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6004532.v1

Bon, Anna, Hans Akkermans, and Jaap Gordijn. “Developing ICT Services in a Low-Resource Development Context.” Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly 9 (2016): 84-109.[PDF]

Onno Valkering, Victor de Boer, Gossa Lo, Romy Blankendaal, and Stefan Schlobach, The Semantic Web in an SMS. 2016, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. [PDF]

Victor de Boer, Anna Bon, Cheah Wai Shiang, Nana Baah Gyan (ed.) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web (Downscale2016) Co-­located with the 4th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S) August 29, 2016 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [PDF].

Anna Bon, Jaap Gordijn and Hans Akkermans, A Structured Model-Based Approach To Preview Sustainability in ICT4D 2016 In: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web, Co-located with the ICT4S Conference, August 2016 Amsterdam. [PDF]

Bon, Anna, Jaap Gordijn, and Hans Akkermans. “E-Service Innovation in Rural Africa Through Value Co-Creation.” Handbook of Research on Strategic Alliances and Value Co-Creation in the Service Industry. IGI Global, 2017. 355-373 .[PDF]

Bon, Anna, Jaap Gordijn, and Hans Akkermans. “A Low-resource Aware Framework for ICT Service Development in Rural Africa.” CAiSE Forum 2016. [PDF]

Nana Baah Gyan, The Web, Speech Technologies and Rural Development in West Africa, An ICT4D Approach. PhD Thesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2016. [PDF]

Victor de Boer, Nana Baah Gyan, Anna Bon, Wendelien Tuyp, Chris van Aart, Hans Akkermans: A Dialogue with Linked Data: Voice-based Access to Market Data in the Sahel. In: Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability 2015.  [PDF]

Gueret, Christophe, Victor de Boer, and Stefan Schlobach. “Let’s” Downscale” Linked Data.” Internet Computing, IEEE 18.2 (2014): 70-73. [IEEE link]

Stefan Schlobach, Victor de Boer, Christophe Guéret, Stéphane Boyera, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. From Knowledge Engineering for Development to Development Informatics. EKAW (Satellite Events) 2014: 18-29 [PDF]