Translating Global Health Technologies. Accounting and Testing in health care provision in Uganda and Rwanda

该项目旨在巩固和理论上阐述我们的研究成果，即全球旅行卫生技术的翻译如何有助于新的治疗机构的出现。通过我们将翻译概念化为一个双向过程，我们不仅可以展示创造性适应的实践如何影响和塑造技术的制度化，而且还可以展示这如何导致乌干达和卢旺达不同规模和范围的组织学习。在项目的第三和最后阶段，我们建议把重点放在组织学习过程的基础和新出现的会计程序和测试做法。这将使我们能够更好地把握技术（例如快速诊断检测）的使用与医疗数据制作（信息和通信技术）之间复杂的相互作用。专注于间隙空间使我们不仅可以比较不同类型的组织学习，而且还可以将其与第二阶段的研究结果联系起来。会计研究与测试社会学方法的融合将提供理论上的进步，并对“好”和“坏”翻译之间的（分析）区分产生新的见解。这将大大有助于实现优先项目的总体目标：澄清技术在非洲秩序和混乱中的作用。

This project aims to consolidate and theoretically elaborate our research findings on how the translation of traveling global health technologies contributes to the emergence of new therapeutic agencements. Through our conceptualization of translation as a two-way process we could not only show how practices of creative adaptation affect and shape institutionalization of technologies, but also how this results in organizational learning of different scale and scope in Uganda and Rwanda. In the third and last project phase we propose to focus on accounting procedures and testing practices underlying and emerging out of processes of organizational learning. This will allow us to better capture the complex interplay between the use of technologies (e.g. rapid diagnostic tests) and medical data production (information and communication technologies). Focusing on interstitial spaces enables us to not only compare different types of organizational learning, but also to link this back to our research results of the second phase. The merging of accounting studies with approaches of the sociology of testing will provide theoretical advancement and generate new insights into the (analytical) differentiation between 'good' and 'bad' translations. This will significantly contribute to the priority programs overarching aim: clarify the role of technologies for the production of order and disorder in Africa.