Roberts, T. et al. (2023) Mapping the Supply of Surveillance Technologies to Africa: Case Studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies. https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/18120
Publications
Mapping the Supply of Surveillance Technology to Africa
Commissioned Report |
Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression
Roberts T. and Bosch T. (editors) (2023) Digital Citizenship in Africa: technologies of agency and repression, London, Zed Books. Book |
Internet Shutdowns and Digital Citizenship
Anthonio, F. and Roberts T. (2023) Internet Shutdowns and Digital Citizenship, in Roberts T. and Bosch T. (editors) (2023) Digital Citizenship in Africa: technologies of agency and repression, London, Zed Books. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-978135032... Chapter |
Digital citizenship and political accountability in Namibia’s 2019 election
Elias M. and Roberts T. (2023) Digital citizenship and political accountability in Namibia’s 2019 election, in Roberts T. and Bosch T. (eds) (2023) Digital Citizenship in Africa: technologies of agency and repression, London, Zed Books. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-978135032... Chapter |
Datafication, Dehumanisation and Participatory Development
Roberts, T. and Zheng, Y. (2022) Does Digitalisation Dehumanise Development? Paper presented at the IFIP 9.4 conference in 2022 on whether datafication and disintermediation is dehumanising development and how participatory development can help. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-19429-0_23 Full Conference Paper (peer reviewed) |
Key Issues in Digitalisation and Governance
Roberts, T., Hernandez, K., Faith, B., and Prieto Martín, P. (2022) Key Issues in Digitalisation and Governance, Bern: SDC Governance Network, Swiss Development Cooperation. https://www.shareweb.ch/site/DDLGN/topics/DigitalisationAndGovernance/Si... Commissioned Report |
Managing the Risks and Benefits of Digital Social Protection in Humanitarian Settings
Faith, B. and Roberts, T. (2022) Risks, Accountability and Technology thematic working paper for Better Assistance in Crisis. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/17139/... Working Paper |
Managing the Risks and Benefits of Digital Technologies in Social Assistance Provision
Faith, B.; Roberts, T. and Hernandez, K. (2022) Risks/Accountability/Technology Thematic Working Paper, BASIC Research Working Paper 3, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/BASIC.2022.003 https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/17132/... Commissioned Report |
Digital Citizenship or Digital Authoritarianism
Roberts T. and Bosch T. (2021) Digital Citizenship or Digital Authoritarianism in OECD Development Co-operation Report 2021: Shaping a Just Digital Transformation, Paris, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ce08832f-en/1/3/2/9/index.html?itemI... Chapter (peer reviewed) |
Digital Technologies and the Future of Poverty and Development
Roberts, T. Hernandez K. and Faith B. (2021) Digital Technologies and the Future of Poverty and Development in Allen T. and Thomas A. Poverty and Development in the 21st Centrury, Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/poverty-and-development-97801995... Chapter (peer reviewed) |
Decolonising Innovation
Jimenez, A. and Roberts, T. (2021) Decolonising Innovation, in Mazzucato, M. (2021) Public Purpose: industrial policy's comeback and government's role in shared prosperity, Boston Review, Forum 19 (46.3). https://bostonreview.net/forum_response/decolonizing-innovation/ Chapter (peer reviewed) |
Surveillance Law in Africa: a review of six countries
Roberts, T. (editor) (2021) Surveillance Law in Africa: a Review of Six Countries, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.059 Chapter (peer reviewed) |
Digital Affordances in Participatory Research Methods
Roberts, T. (editor) Digital Technologies in Participatory Research (six chapter section) in Burns, D., Howard, J. and Ospina S. (2021) The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry, London, SAGE. Roberts, T. (2021) Digital Affordances in Participatory Research Methods, in Burns, D., Howard, J. and Ospina S. (2021) The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry, London, SAGE. Chapter (peer reviewed) |
Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons From Ten African Countries
Roberts, T. (editor) (2021) Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons from Ten African Countries, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.003 Other |
Opening and Closing Online Civic Space in Africa: An Introduction to the Digital Rights Landscape
Roberts, T. and Mohamed Ali, A. (2021) ‘Opening and Closing Online Civic Space in Africa: An Introduction to the Ten Digital Rights Landscape Reports’, in T. Roberts (ed.), Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons from Ten African Countries, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.005 https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/15964/... Chapter (peer reviewed) |
South Africa Digital Rights Landscape Report
Bosch, T. and Roberts, T. (2021) South Africa Digital Rights Landscape Report, in T. Roberts (ed.), Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons from Ten African Countries, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.010 https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/15964/... Chapter (peer reviewed) |
Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition: A Literature Review and Proposed Conceptual Framework
Roberts, T. and Hernandez, K. (2021) Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition: A Literature Review and Proposed Conceptual Framework, IDS Working Paper 545, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.018 https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/15928 Working Paper |
Digital Aid: Understanding the Digital Challenges Facing Humanitarian Assistance
Roberts, T. and Faith, B. (2021) Digital Aid: Understanding the Digital Challenges Facing Humanitarian Assistance, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.030 https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16484 Commissioned Report |
Lessons for Open Data for Development Programmes
Clark, L.; Higdon, G.L.; Stanley, A. and Roberts, T. (2020) 'Lessons for Open Data for Development Programmes', IDS Policy Briefing 171, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies. Commissioned Report |
Fifty Years of Practice and Innovation in Participatory Video (PV)
Roberts Tony, Muñiz Soledad (2020) Fifty Years of Practice and Innovation in Participatory Video (PV), in: Servaes J. (ed). Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change. Springer, Singapore. Chapter (peer reviewed) |