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Ramit Debnath - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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disruptive innovation for inclusive renewable policy in sub saharan africa a Social Shaping of technology analysis of appliance uptake in rwanda
Renewable Energy, 2021Co-Authors: Olivia Muza, Ramit DebnathAbstract:Abstract Rural off-grid renewable energy solutions often fail due to uncertainties in household energy demand, insufficient community engagement, inappropriate financial models and policy inconsistency. Social Shaping of technology (SST) of household appliances provides a critical lens of understanding the involved socio-technical drivers behind these constraints. This study employs an SST lens to investigate appliance uptake drivers in 14,580 households in Rwanda, such that these drivers can aid in policy design for green growth at the grassroots level. The methodology includes an epistemological review of non-income drivers of appliance uptake. Empirical analysis using a binary logistic regression, based on which disruptive innovation pathways were derived for fostering green growth. Results showed that appliance uptake was highly gendered and skewed across the Ubudehe (Social welfare) categories. ICT-devices like mobile phones and radios had a higher likelihood of ownership than welfare appliances like refrigerator and laundry machines. Fans and cookers also demonstrated a greater probability of ownership. Disruptive innovation pathways were derived from leveraging the ICT-driven wave of appliance ownership, creation of service sectors through off-grid renewable solutions and promoting cleaner fuel-switching of cooking energy at the household level. Further policy implications were drawn to support the creation of consumption identities for green growth.
Olivia Muza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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disruptive innovation for inclusive renewable policy in sub saharan africa a Social Shaping of technology analysis of appliance uptake in rwanda
Renewable Energy, 2021Co-Authors: Olivia Muza, Ramit DebnathAbstract:Abstract Rural off-grid renewable energy solutions often fail due to uncertainties in household energy demand, insufficient community engagement, inappropriate financial models and policy inconsistency. Social Shaping of technology (SST) of household appliances provides a critical lens of understanding the involved socio-technical drivers behind these constraints. This study employs an SST lens to investigate appliance uptake drivers in 14,580 households in Rwanda, such that these drivers can aid in policy design for green growth at the grassroots level. The methodology includes an epistemological review of non-income drivers of appliance uptake. Empirical analysis using a binary logistic regression, based on which disruptive innovation pathways were derived for fostering green growth. Results showed that appliance uptake was highly gendered and skewed across the Ubudehe (Social welfare) categories. ICT-devices like mobile phones and radios had a higher likelihood of ownership than welfare appliances like refrigerator and laundry machines. Fans and cookers also demonstrated a greater probability of ownership. Disruptive innovation pathways were derived from leveraging the ICT-driven wave of appliance ownership, creation of service sectors through off-grid renewable solutions and promoting cleaner fuel-switching of cooking energy at the household level. Further policy implications were drawn to support the creation of consumption identities for green growth.
Jason W Patton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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design by society science and technology studies and the Social Shaping of design
Design Issues, 2004Co-Authors: Edward J Woodhouse, Jason W PattonAbstract:This Design Issues symposium is a continuation of efforts to enrich design studies by selectively reaching out to scholarship in related fields. The contributors to this issue are from the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS). They include an anthropologist, a political scientist, and an interdisciplinary set of STS graduate students and recent Ph.D.s with backgrounds in engineering and design, as well as in the humanities and Social sciences. This volume emerges from a project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to develop “An STS Focus on Design,” funded by the National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Studies program. Project participants seek to foster a dialogue with the design studies community on design as a public activity engaging professional designers with many other Social actors and institutions. In this introduction, we provide an overview of how some STS scholars think about the challenges of design, and we briefly summarize the articles in this symposium. However, we begin by discussing the conceptual foundation for the work, distinguishing between what we call “proximate designers” and “design by society.” 2 Professional designers most immediately shape design by their decisions at the drawing board, of course, but they work within contexts and incentive structures shaped largely by others. In proposing that design studies pay increased attention to design by society, we are attempting to join with Victor Papanek, Nigel Whiteley, Joan Rothschild, Richard Buchanan, Victor Margolin, William McDonough, and others who think systematically about how design can help shape a commendable civilization.3
Edward J Woodhouse - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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design by society science and technology studies and the Social Shaping of design
Design Issues, 2004Co-Authors: Edward J Woodhouse, Jason W PattonAbstract:This Design Issues symposium is a continuation of efforts to enrich design studies by selectively reaching out to scholarship in related fields. The contributors to this issue are from the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS). They include an anthropologist, a political scientist, and an interdisciplinary set of STS graduate students and recent Ph.D.s with backgrounds in engineering and design, as well as in the humanities and Social sciences. This volume emerges from a project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to develop “An STS Focus on Design,” funded by the National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Studies program. Project participants seek to foster a dialogue with the design studies community on design as a public activity engaging professional designers with many other Social actors and institutions. In this introduction, we provide an overview of how some STS scholars think about the challenges of design, and we briefly summarize the articles in this symposium. However, we begin by discussing the conceptual foundation for the work, distinguishing between what we call “proximate designers” and “design by society.” 2 Professional designers most immediately shape design by their decisions at the drawing board, of course, but they work within contexts and incentive structures shaped largely by others. In proposing that design studies pay increased attention to design by society, we are attempting to join with Victor Papanek, Nigel Whiteley, Joan Rothschild, Richard Buchanan, Victor Margolin, William McDonough, and others who think systematically about how design can help shape a commendable civilization.3
David Edge - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Social Shaping of technology
ELSEVIER Research Policy, 1996Co-Authors: Robin Williams, David EdgeAbstract:This paper reviews the growing body of research that explores 'the Social Shaping of technology' (SST) -how the design and implementation of technology are pattemed by a range of 'Social' and 'economic' factors as well as narrowly 'technical' considerations. It shows how researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds were brought together by a critique of traditional conceptions of technology (for example, 'linear models' of innovation that privileged technological supply or restricted the scope of Social inquiry into technology to assessing its ' impacts'). Though their analytical frameworks differ to a greater or lesser extent in terminology and approach, some explanatory concepts have emerged, and constitute an effective model of the innovation process. Here, it is suggested, SST offers a deeper understanding and also potentially broadens the technology policy agenda. These claims are assessed through a review of recent research into specific instances of Social Shaping, particularly in relation to information technology. Finally the article discusses some of the intellectual dilemmas in the field. Though the intellectual cross-fertilisation has been creative, points of tension and divergence between its constituent strands have resulted in some sharp controversies, which reflect upon the theoretical and policy claims of SST.