Anonymous, "Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Texbook Cover", contributed by Lucy Pei, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 3 December 2019, accessed 19 December 2024. http://centerforethnography.org/content/information-and-communication-technology-development-ict4d-texbook-cover
Critical Commentary
This is the cover of the first dedicated textbook to the topic of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). The cover repeats the visual trope we saw in the Facebook Free Basics website image: the image centers on a digital artifact, held in a brown hand. This time there are beaded bracelets on the hands and a colorful scarf in the background. Again, these appear to be what indexes the image as being technology for a context that needs development.