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? Question Set Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good
BIO: How do visible differences (e.g. markers of race and class) between technologists and their "beneficiary" communities embody power? Question Set 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? Question Set Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good
MICRO: How do practices of needs-assessment, evaluation, reporting, deployment, iteration inscribe power relationships in tech-for-good projects? Question Set Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good
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? Question Set Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good
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? Question Set 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? Question Set Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good
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? Question Set Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good
TECHNO: How do technical and physical infrastructures constrain the possibilities of tech-for-good projects? Question Set Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good
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? Question Set Cross Scale Questions: Technology for Social Good