– clinician -" Uncertainties about legal accountability as well as privacy matters made health care professionals feel insecure.
Accounts indicated uncertainty among service-users about accountability mechanisms, without clarifying whether mechanisms existed or not.
Other common frames in science journalism such as conflict (the dominant frame in coverage of politically charged science topics such as climate change and evolution), economic development, morality, scientific uncertainty, risk, and public accountability [ 32] were absent.
"I think the implementers are more accountable because they are contracted…" (Donor-level 4 ) "I think the implementers are more accountable because they are contracted…" (Donor-level 4 ) However, several expressed uncertainty about the extent of accountability to communities.
The problem is the loss of identity, which introduces uncertainty and a lack of accountability into the equation.
As explained in my initial blogpost (carefully referring to the literature), it is precaution that offers greater rigour and accountability under the realities of uncertainty.
However, when effectively recommending single ostensibly 'best' technologies or strategies, TA practices can serve unjustifiably to 'close down' debate, failing adequately to address technical uncertainties and social ambiguities, reducing scope for democratic accountability and co-ordination across scales and contexts.
These should include, at a minimum: Initial endowments (roles of actors, their access to information, degree of autonomy, areas of negotiation and uncertainty, rules and norms, access to resources, power relationships, accountability etc).
Consequently, accountability structures are highly diverse and this creates uncertainty and variety of medicine and management relationships.
Future researchers will need to address these questions, closely examining the external factors that may lead to differences in proto-institutional accountability and responsiveness in the new climate of economic uncertainty.
Within a general framework of managing uncertainty, balancing stability and flexibility in work processes and matching control and accountability for these processes are proposed as criteria for decisions on reducing, maintaining, and increasing uncertainty.
