Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good

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
ECO-ATMO: How does precarity caused by climate change color the desire of the beneficiaries for “aid” or their faith in technological solutions?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:50pm
DEUTERO: How do technologists, intended beneficiaries, and their organizations reflect critically about technology-for-social-good projects?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 11:54am
ECO-ATMO: How do climatic differences (between the place where artifacts were designed, manufactured, and deployed) create opportunities for beneficiaries to appropriate intervention?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:51pm
META: How do dominant discourses of development, aid, and technology-as-aid/development circulate? Where and how do they fail to circulate? How are they resisted?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:06pm
GEO: How does the “debris” of a tech-for-good project contribute resources to the community? How do they pollute the community? How does its success or failure, interpreted from various perspectives, color the material afterlives of artifacts?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:53pm
MACRO: How is power embedded in the ecosystem of philanthropists, government funders, corporate social engagement arms, and other sources of funding for tech-for-good pojects?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:31pm
GEO: How is e-waste being circulated globally and within small geographic spaces, disguised as a “donation” or charity act? How do shortages, environmental damage from mining for digital tech components color the tech-for-good initiative?

Submitted by Lucy Pei on December 6, 2019 - 12:54pm
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

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