PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS STUDYING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Here are a few professional societies for people working to provide the basic understanding of social and economic processes that underlie K4D programs.

Society for the History of Technology (ShoT)
http://shot.press.jhu.edu/

Society for the Social Studies of Science (Technoscience)
http://www.cis.vt.edu/technoscience/technohome.html

Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association
http://www.asanet.org/sectionskat/

Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.aaas.org/about/sections/impacts.shtml

The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
http://radburn.rutgers.edu/andrews/projects/ssit/default.htm

Special Interest Group on Computers and Society of the Association for Computing Machinery
http://www.acm.org/sigcas/

Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
http://www.aoir.org/