Over the last decade, various activist organisations the world over, be they NGOs, CBOs, academic organisations or government aligned sectors, have started to advance the importance of using ICTs for socio-economic development, or transformation framed differently. The bulk of these efforts, when co-ordinated, have brought together computer scientists, policy analysts and engineers to mould solutions that make a difference to the lives of ordinary people. At the same time, however, academics from the legal, human and social sciences have also attempted to forge paths that make optimal use of ICTs for meaningful transformation. Many have argued that the best ICT solutions, with Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS), among them, will remain meaningless without adequate understanding of how pathways of knowledge and empowerment work. Various scholars from these disciplinary frameworks have undertaken research into the meeting-places of ICTs and social activity. Informed by some of these developments, the Meraka African Advanced Institute for Information and Communication Technologies invites you participate in its first International colloquium on ICTs for transformation. Paper abstracts and titles in the following thematic areas are invited: