Social Technology is the art and craft of applying technology and social knowledge to enhance the human condition.
Modern information and communication technology allows us collect vast amount of authenticated data. In future these technologies are likely to contribute to greater understanding of human societies, their problems and provide insights for their solution.
Social Technology is possible now because we have a substantial body of Social Research available that can be applied to improve the systems that are currently in practice.
www.ablongman.com/baronbyrne has more links for reference.
There is a growing awareness that to solve complex social problems we need to integrate knowledge. There are some notable efforts in this direction.
http://www.acemedia.org/ewimt2005/
http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/people/fuller/unesco.htm
http://kie.berkeley.edu/KIE.html
http://www.iee.org/events/ewimt04.cfm
http://www.aimatshape.net/events-archive/Event.2005-08-03.3459
http://www.i-know.at/previous/i-know04/kmel-prog.htm
http://psicologia.unipd.it/htlab/150.php
http://www.wotr.org/soctech.htm
http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/Us_Eu/conf/tide98/134/ikonen_tuula.html
A few governments and non government bodies are trying to use this concept to improve human condition.
http://www.dswd.gov.ph/programs.php?progtype=2 http://www.socialtechbrewing.org/
