Navigating technology assessment & user needs

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Ankita Raturi (Purdue University / aginformaticslab.org) brought us through different #techassessment that can help us understand users' needs (resources will be added here).

She also made us explore ways to set up a context-specific toolbox: "How to identify what tools match the needs of my community?

First, Understand people and people's practices (be critial about our personal biais)
Identify the tasks where digital tools can be supportive
Make emerge what the community "like" about a tool, what are the main qualities that we want to see in a tool (e.g. having no environmental impact, working without electricty, not breakable, cheap, requiring very low technical capacity...)
And also:
Use the question "How might "good" digital tools support agroecology outcomes in your context?"
Make clear that tech will solve a small part of the problems, many problems are policy-related or other and will not be fixed by technologies
No tool will fit all contexts