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C14
The intervention was designed for a world with reliable electricity, trained technicians, functioning supply chains, and cooperative institutions — then deployed to a world that has none of these things.
Behavioral-Infrastructure Context Failure
31 problems across 12 domains · v5: 22 → v6: 28
Shared Structural DNA
These ~28 problems share a pattern invisible from within any single domain: interventions designed for one institutional context fail in another because they assume infrastructure, behaviors, and stakeholder relationships that don't exist. At 500 briefs, 9 GS self-articulated sources transformed the cluster: BRAC's play-based learning undone by government schools, CSIR SA's solar models assuming fixed roofs on legally owned structures, ICIMOD's warning systems assuming cellular infrastructure, IRRI's seed systems assuming formal supply chains. GS SA representation rose from 6% to 32%, reframing C14 from 'technology fails in poor settings' to 'design embeds assumptions about context.' The most significant qualitative change in the collection.
Health interventions assume clinical infrastructure, staffing, and supply chains that don't exist in deployment settings
Warning systems assume cellular/radio communication infrastructure that doesn't exist in deployment areas
Education standards assume resources, lab access, and pedagogical continuity that under-resourced institutions lack
Humanitarian interventions assume cultural context, accessibility, and institutional continuity that displaced populations lack
Agricultural programs assume machinery access, market connections, formal seed systems, and surveillance coverage that smallholders lack
Equipment donation assumes maintenance ecosystem — power, spare parts, trained operators — that doesn't exist
Treatment/technology designed for one geological or infrastructural context fails in structurally different conditions
Member Problems
Domain Spread