WilliamsMemo5

Williams Memo 5 Project Definition STQs

__**Working Title: Knowledge and technology transfer of surgical technology-practice**__


 * **Social Theoretical Questions?** || **Research Questions?** || **Stakeholder Questions?** ||
 * How is 'appropriate technology' defined? || # 'Who decides' which interventions are appropriate or not for a particular site? || # Who are the 'publics': The indigenous? The local? The patients? The families?
 * 1) Is empowerment of minorities within the local community part of the success of these self-sustaining entrepreneurial NGOs?
 * 2) What is the relationship between manufacturing companies (which represent foreign direct investment in some cases, and, charitable NGOs in other cases) and the local community?
 * 3) What is the role of public engagement in the success of entrepreneurial NGOs? ||
 * What is a transnational advocacy network? || # How do NGOs create an international 'text' for our understanding of an issue?
 * 1) How is this text disseminated/translated so that it becomes the dominant frame through which 'we' understand the issue?
 * 2) How does this 'text' compete with more local understandings of the issue, its origins, solutions, and implicated stakeholders? || # How do these organizations use transnational advocacy networks to determine which sites require their assistance? ||
 * How is social entrepreneurship defined? What is 'collective identity'? ||  || How do NGOs construct their identity as self-sustained and entrepreneurial? ||
 * What is a technique, or, practice? || # How are "appropriate surgical procedures" defined and translated?
 * 1) How are "appropriate medical procedures" defined and translated?
 * 2) How are “appropriate health informatics” defined and translated ? ||   ||
 * What is an artifact? || # What are the physical artifacts used in surgical procedures? What are the politics of these artifacts?
 * 1) What are the physical artifacts used in health informatics? What are the politics of these artifacts? ||   ||
 * What is 'technology-practice'? ||  ||   ||
 * How is knowledge translated? || # How are current practices and technologies presently described as "appropriate technology" re-defined when translated ?
 * 1) How is this knowledge and technology transfer intertwined with a culture and values transfer? ||   ||
 * What are design valences? || What are the public and private spaces of eye hospitals? How has the design changed between developed and developing countries? ||  ||
 * What is a medium or meso scale technology system? What is an organization? ||  || Are flexibility and, resiliency components of success for non governmental organizations acting as social entrepreneurs? ||
 * How is sustainability defined? || 'Who decides' whether a specified intervention will encourage sustainable economic development at a site? || How do national governments frame their pursuit of alternative/sustainable/appropriate technologies within national and, or, international rhetoric of globalization? ||
 * How is globalization defined? ||  || How do NGOs pursuing sustainable development agendas fit within a context defined by a country's government? Defined by another international organization? ||