You will select a social enterprise operating outside of the U.S. \u2014 a social entrepreneuring firm, or an NGO (non-governmental organization). The work of your selected entity depends on some technology in a substantive way, [It is okay if the entity is headquartered in the U.S., just so long as its substantive work is outside of the U.S.]<\/p>\n
Your selected entity benefits a discernible population, or, a social group (which could be represented in our language of social configurations \u2014 social order, technosocial routines and their technology, and defining conditions). In other words, your selected entity will not simply offer a good product into a general market \u2026 since in this case the consumers may bear no relation to one another beyond having also bought the product. In order to examine the values infrastructure that connects the social enterprise to those benefiting, and to comment on the ethical qualities, the entity that is benefited needs to be a discernible social group. <\/p>\n
For example, the NGO Resolve (Resolve.ngo) develops and installs cameras with onboard AI technology (TrailGuard AI) to protect critical animal populations in national preserves \u2014 detecting and aiding in the capture and prosecution of poachers. This enhances the ecosystem and benefits communities near the preserves. In addition, by hardening and lowering the cost of its technology, Resolve is helping many such preserves (and various species) and so communities. Protecting these threatened species, and their ecosystems, is a service to the nations involved \u2014 and one could argue, to the world as a whole. <\/p>\n
In general you might examine a social enterprise that benefits: a kind of community; a collection of communities in a region; everyone who is somehow connected (through interest, livelihood, proximity) to an ecosystem; or perhaps a population that suffers some hardship and that is aware of itself (e.g., the very poor in a region who lack medical care). <\/p>\n
PROMPT<\/p>\n
[1] Describe the overall context: your selected benefiting entity, the entity (discernible population, or actors in a durable social formation) that receives the benefit (the \u201cbenefited\u201d entity), and any other important participants. <\/p>\n
[2] Describe the technology and how it is deployed into practice (i.e.,what it does, and how it enters into relevant technosocial routines). Also describe any effects on the social configuration that benefits from the technology, such as changes in influence or power among some actors (i.e., change in the social order). <\/p>\n
[3] Analyze the underlying values infrastructure \u2013 values of the selected enterprise or NGO, and of the receiving entity. Your goal is to show how the values of these two relate to (fit with) one another. To do this, show how the technology as it is employed is responsible for some new conditions in the world. These conditions serve values you name of the social enterprise, and the conditions also serve values you name of the entity that is benefited. At times to achieve this integration of values it will be necessary to employ the technology in a particular way \u2014 i.e., the conditions that create shared value require more than just the typical use of the technology. If this is the case you should explain this. <\/p>\n
[4] Which of the values of the social enterprise would you say are \u201cbuilt into\u201d the technology? Here, you are making a link between something your benefiting entity cares about, and specific features of the technology, or, necessary aspects of the use of the technology. At the least it may be that the benefiting entity sees something as a problem, and the technology (used properly) addresses the problem. Or, there may be a stronger influence on design \u2014 as when there are multiple design alternatives, and the actual \u2018shape\u2019 of the technology reflects that a particular value of the social enterprise legislated which of the alternatives would be taken.<\/p>\n
[5] Evaluate the overall system ethically \u2013 contrast the benefited entity\u2019s conditions pre- versus post-technology insertion, and show how at least one of the 12 ethical qualities (Vallor\u2019s \u201ctechnomoral virtues\u201d that we discussed in class and that are found in the Vallor reading) is manifest in (is a feature of) the change that has been made. <\/p>\n
[6] How do you imagine these ideas \u2013 values infrastructure, value-laden technology, and ethics \u2013 will inform your future career?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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