Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good

MACRO: What legal, technical, political, and economic limitations and enablers shape tech-for-good projects? How do global supply chains and their attendant political-economical contexts matter?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:33pm
MESO: How do structures of organizations of universities, NGOs, local, state, federal, and international government, philanthropic foundations, and tech companies shape tech-for-good projects?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:36pm
MESO: What does it mean to collaborate with the community or have the community participate in a tech-for-good project? Who can speak for the "community"? Who decides what it is? How can this be contested?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:37pm
BIO: How do visible differences (e.g. markers of race and class) between technologists and their "beneficiary" communities embody power?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:38pm
BIO: What is the embodied experience (through the senses, material) of engaging with the artifacts of tech-for-good projects?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:39pm
MICRO: How do practices of needs-assessment, evaluation, reporting, deployment, iteration inscribe power relationships in tech-for-good projects?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:39pm
MICRO: What practices illustrate gratefulness? An expectation for gratefulness? What practices constitute the “for good” part of the intervention? In what ways are interactions between technologist, technology, and beneficiary ritualized?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:40pm
NANO: How/ do technologists see themselves as for-good? How/ do beneficiaries see themselves as being helped? As co-designers? As designers? As participants? How does ICTD produce intervener and beneficiary subjectivities?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:41pm
EDXO: How does one become an expert in tech-for-good/ICTD? How is one trained to carry out ICTD? What is the cannon? What stories are told? What mentor-mentee relationships can be characterized?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:41pm
DATA: How do reports produced about the promise and/or results of tech-for-good projects circulate? How are tech-for-good projects constrained by the ways their results are/can be measured?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:42pm
TECHNO: How do technical and physical infrastructures constrain the possibilities of tech-for-good projects?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:47pm
TECHNO: What technical conditions support the belief that innovations in tech for resource-rich markets “trickle down” to being targeted for use with marginalized communities?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:48pm

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