Hasib Ahsan has recently had his conference paper titled “Digital ‘Theory of Change’ in Practice: Design and Socio-spatial Realities in Climate Displaced Riverine Communities” published as a book chapter in the Springer Nature conference proceedings. The research and the fieldwork for the paper was partly supported by the DecouplingIT project based at the IT University of Copenhagen and funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

The paper looks at the development of a digitally enabled Theory of Change (ToC) to support sustainable developments and its use in the char islands area in Bangladesh. While the ToC enabled more informed planning and interventions in the char islands area, its application was also limited by its ability to properly account for the “socio-spatial complexities of the char landscape” (Ahsan 2026).

Read the original paper here. Find more about Hasib and his work here.

References

Ahsan, H. (2027). Digital ‘Theory of Change’ in Practice Design and Socio-spatial Realities in Climate Displaced Riverine Communities. In: Thapa, D., Pandey, P. (eds) Reorienting the Digital: Ethics, Ontology, and Sustainable Futures . ICT4D 2026. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 783. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-30942-6_10