 A social network analysis of ICTD conferences (2006–2017)Maitrayee Mukerji and Unnati Chauhan Information Technology for Development, 2020, vol. 26, issue 4, 788-810 Abstract: Information and Communication Technologies for Development is an interdisciplinary area of research associated with engineering, application, and adoption of ICTs in developing regions and/or for development. The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) was started in 2006 with the objective to build a community of scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. In this paper, we examine the social dimension of ICTD as manifest in co-authorship ties in the papers published in conference proceedings. This research community has 1053 unique authors from 302 institutions in 55 countries. Almost 85% of 456 papers are co-authored by two or more people. Initially, the research community displayed small-world characteristics but the social network subsequently displays a distinct core-periphery structure. Further, collaborative ties among academic institutions in developing countries are comparatively less. A key implication is that institutional support is imperative to initiate and maintain collaborative research ties. Date: 2020 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:titdxx:v:26:y:2020:i:4:p:788-810 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2019.1685930 Access Statistics for this article Information Technology for Development is currently edited by Sajda Qureshi More articles in Information Technology for Development from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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