Communications for Progress

Most of this book describes the operation of what is now entirely obsolete technology. Its value exists as a record - and to some extent an explanation - of the efforts of small NGOs, solidarity and church groups to adopt simple peer-to-peer communications technologues to support development and solidarity work in Europe, South America and sub-Saharan Africa. This pioneering work predated the possibility of e-mailing any UN or donor government development  organisation. 

Information Management for Development Organisations

This book was written at a time when the use of ICT by development organisations was becoming ubiquitous. It argues that rather than concentrating on the ever changing technologies, development organisations need to focus on the information they needed to work effectively and the relationships which underpin the necessary two-way communication which can generate the information needed. The book gives many examples of the way such information flows can underpin or hinder the main essential functions of a development organisation.

Le Senegal a l'heure de l'information

This book looks at the introduction and use of new information technologies in several sectors of Senegalese society, showing some significant differences and innovations from the norms evolving in more industrialised countries at the same period. The book's development included a number of interactive events and newspaper features in Senegal which helped identify issues and potential writers for the different chapters.  The process was led by Momar-Coumba Diop of the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar.

From immersion to simulation: remote methodologies and the decline of area studies

Using Sudan as a case study, the focus of this essay is the changing nature of fieldwork in the Global South. More specifically, it concerns the methodological shifts in how the South has been approached as an object of knowledge in the contemporary period. Drawing on the author's own varying engagement with Sudan since December 1973, it was prompted by a return visit in January 2014 to what is now the small town of Maiurno, near Sennar, almost 40 years to the day of beginning his PhD fieldwork there.