MICRO: How do practices of needs-assessment, evaluation, reporting, deployment, iteration inscribe power relationships in tech-for-good projects? Read more about MICRO: How do practices of needs-assessment, evaluation, reporting, deployment, iteration inscribe power relationships in tech-for-good projects?
BIO: What is the embodied experience (through the senses, material) of engaging with the artifacts of tech-for-good projects? Read more about BIO: What is the embodied experience (through the senses, material) of engaging with the artifacts of tech-for-good projects?
BIO: How do visible differences (e.g. markers of race and class) between technologists and their "beneficiary" communities embody power? Read more about BIO: How do visible differences (e.g. markers of race and class) between technologists and their "beneficiary" communities embody power?
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? Read more about 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?
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? Read more about 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?
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? Read more about 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?
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? Read more about 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?
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? Read more about 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?
DEUTERO: How do technologists, intended beneficiaries, and their organizations reflect critically about technology-for-social-good projects? Read more about DEUTERO: How do technologists, intended beneficiaries, and their organizations reflect critically about technology-for-social-good projects?
