What is your favorite science policy proposal for reducing inequity?

 

What would you advocate cutting back on and why?

 

How can issues of inequity be integrated into education (especially of scientists and engineers)?

 

What forms of interactions should occur between scientists and stakeholders and/or the disadvantaged, and what context will favor good and just science?

 

How can resources be provided to people closest to the problems to allow them to solve the problems themselves?  How can we use our skills and resources to redistribute skills and resources?

 

How do differences in technologies influence different models of social change?

 

How do aesthetic characteristics of technologies affect equity?

 

What are the ways in which inequalities relate to each other and how does science relate to that connection? (reinforcement of inequality by each other...)

 

What are the ways in which STS can link to social movements and provide resources and information to them?

 

How to listen to understand the need?

 

What technologies advance the equity agenda?

 

What are good technological fixes?

 

How can technologies be graded in terms of how they advance equity? How to rate technological fixes?

 

Can you picture the path of what you are doing to make life better for the ‘poorest’ person you have ever encountered?

 

What is the preferential option for the poor?

 

How can we understand technologies and their impacts, and how can we avoid doing harm?

 

How do we obtain a better understanding of the experiences of poor and what coping strategies and technologies are relevant?

 

What drives the adoption of technologies by the poor? Why are some technologies adopted and not others? What types of opportunities are actually relevant to the poor?

 

What is “appropriate” technology?

 

Do the poor have special technology needs or are they the same, just unaffordable?

 

What one step toward more global representativeness in the science and technology workforce would you advocate?

 

What do you get if you reveal the relationship between the production of knowledge and the poor?

 

Outside of science and technology policy, what change would you advocate to overcome inequity?

 

How is success defined? If you were guaranteed success, what would you try?

 

Is it possible to intervene to modulate pace or extent of science and technology change selectively? There is an assumption that its possible, but is that true? What are the factors that differentiate between successes and failures?

 

What one thing can be done to increase our capacity to intervene in the pace of science and technology?

 

What are the factors that condition the speed/pace/velocity of technological advance?

 

What are the arguments or reasons for promoting equality in some form?

 

If you had the audience of a company, how would you explain to them why promoting equity is important? Why is it in the interest of the company to deal with issues of inequity?

 

What are the forms of equality?

 

Where are the opportunities to fix the problem? (in various networks, domains, levels?)

Where do we locate ourselves?

 

Why do you care about social equality?