Here are places I have found interesting related readings, you'll have to dig a little to get online papers, but I think its always possible somehow given the UCSC library online access stuff. Of course I encourage you to find things outside the places I know about, mine are heavy on ICTD as opposed to other social issues:
ICTD Conference 2006
ICTD Conference 2007
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Innovations
TIER
MSR TEM
TED Talks
MIT D-Lab Class
MIT Reading Group
My class to undergrads at UCSC
Videos from princeton series
Videos from CITRISYou'll have to dig around for other classes that teach this stuff. Digging around is the point of the assignment.