This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2017, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 2017. The 17 full papers and 3 poster papers presented together with 6 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 submissions (118 abstract and 90 full paper submissions). The ICDCIT conference focusses on mobile computing; analytics; distributed computing; virtual machines; access control; and security and privacy. .