Reviews

	Geek Heresy – Book Review Jake Seliger, Seliger + Associates (November 2015) “Everyone working in any facet of education and educational nonprofits needs to read Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology; put down whatever other books you’re reading.”
	Geek Heresy (book review) Tobias Denskus, Aidnography (October 27, 2015) “Read the book not (just) because of its criticism of current ICT4D debates, but because of the challenging, yet rewarding, intellectual future it opens up.”
	Talking Truth to Technology Anirudh Krishna, Information Technologies & Int’l Development (Fall 2015) “Talking truth to technology and persuading tech-zealots that people matter—and why that matters—is in itself a salutary achievement.”
	Tech Is Not the (Only) Answer Andrew Means, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Fall 2015) “My hope is that technological utopians—perhaps inspired by this book—will spend more time learning about the real constraints and opportunities that exist in the social sector.”
	Geek Heresy, by Kentaro Toyama: book review Gawain Kripke, Oxfam (July 10, 2015) “Toyama’s got enough snark to appeal to the skeptical hearts among us, but he’s also clearly a very optimistic, even altruistic, person who chose to make his cause social change and human development.”
	[Review] ‘Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology’ Kyoko Uchida, Philanthropy News Digest (June 26, 2015) “Geek Heresy presents a nuanced argument for a human-centric approach to development work that leverages, rather than relies on, technology to create change.”
	Taking a Tire Iron to Techie Triumphalism by Anand Giridharadas (June 8, 2015) Indeed, technology has become a kinder, gentler variant of so-called trickle-down economics, in which one gives poor schoolchildren iPads and a pat on the back…
	Book Review: Geek Heresy Trina Gorman, Global South Deve (May 5, 2015) “Everyone from field staff and managers to researchers and funders will benefit from his unique perspective; geeks and non-geeks, alike.”
	Geek Heresy Kirkus Review (March 16, 2015) “Toyama makes some… perceptive points along the way, observing that if the same technology, for instance, can be used for both entertainment and education, people will choose entertainment every time.”