The ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2017), to be hosted at the Information Technology University from November 16-19, 2017, invites you to submit Full Papers and Notes. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD2017 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The ICTD conferences have been taking place approximately every 18 months since 2006.