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__**Alison Comment's on Logan Memo 1 Revised:**__

What are professional career NGOs? “How are transnational advocacy networks used to determine intervention sites for appropriate technology?” I think this question could be broken down a bit. Like, I want to first know what transnational advocacy networks look like; what are intervention sites; what are appropriate technologies?

Why did you choose those particular organizations for your data sets? Random or are they doing something special? You say that these organizations are relatively new—relatively new compared to…

I’d like to know more about what attracts you to these topics, like, in your “How prepared” section. More than courses, what is your personal investment in this topic/project?

In the second project area, and in relation to your social theoretical questions, what are NGOs doing that is different from governments—in your mind?

Why do you want to study NGOs and not governments?

Why blindness and not amputees or insert some other health disease, impairment?

Whoa! Indigenous knowledge kind of comes out of left field here. Where is that in your social theoretical questions or topic description?

I’d like to have more in the “Why Now” sections, generally.

__**Alison Comment's on Logan Memo 3:**__

“Logan Williams is an Assistant Professor in the James Madison College and the Sociology Department at Michigan State…” take out the “and the”. Also at the bottom of the page with keywords---I think.

I like the term “connective tissue”. Why use that term here? What does it signal for you?

What do you mean by public and private spaces?

Can you give examples of appropriate technologies here?

Just out of curiosity—though probably an inappropriate exploration for a biographical sketch—what is the link between social entrepreneurship and NGOs? How are the two related?

Why keep a foot in engineering? Personally, what is the attraction for you?