Phases in evolution of Information Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) Literature: A systematic reviewAbstract: In this literature review the objective is to undertake a comprehensive study of ICTD literature and identify major themes in it. This work aims to identify major research gaps that may lead to useful directions for future research. For the scope of this literature review we have limited the referred literature within the domain of information systems. Some references from fields like development studies and public policy have been made for the sake of clarifying the basic concepts but it majorly adheres to information system literature. Under the descriptive classification I studied the distribution of articles as per chronology, publication source and methodology they followed. It was observed that year 2007 was a crucial year for ICTD literature with maximum number of publications in this year. Post this the overall number of publications in this field increased substantially. Methodically ICTD is a qualitatively studied domain predominantly. It was found that ICTD studies have abundantly used theories from various fields and have an appreciable amount of theoretical basis in their analysis. Native theories however are low and mostly consisting of frameworks and models. I then studied the ICTD project on basis of five themes: Transformation belief, development approach, design approach, agency of development and impact measured and identified related patterns. Finally, I studied the patterns in evaluative studies in ICTD literature and observed a dominance of research efforts in understanding the implementation issues and consequences of the project but very little efforts in gaining knowledge about environment factors and conceptualization of an ICTD projects.Length: 3 pages

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