Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good

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
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

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