  A number of studies in Information and Communication Technologies for
Development (ICT4D) focus on projects' sustainability and resilience. Over the
years, scholars have identified many elements to enable achievement of these
goals. Nevertheless, barriers to achieving them are still a common reality in
the field. In this paper, we propose that special attention should be paid to
communities' relationships, self-organizing, and social capital - and the
people's networks that enable them - within ICT4D scholarship and practice, as
a way to achieve sustainability and resilience. Building on Green's work (2016)
on social change as a force that cannot be understood without focusing on
systems and power, we claim that ICT4D would benefit from intentionally growing
social capital and fostering networks within its systems. We propose "network
weaving" (Holley, 2013) as a practical approach, and we explore its potential
to complement and advance existing ICT4D frameworks and practices, including
the sense of community of the researchers themselves.
