Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good

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
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

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