In keeping with Sociotech’s traditional focus, we are re-directing our corporate efforts into providing products and services that are proven to promote and facilitate strategic technology supported project management and implementation. Our primary target clientele is on the nonprofit sector. We believe and support the model of lifelong learning consistent with the rapid change of the information base of our global society. Within the general interest areas noted our approach is change-oriented following the evolving principles of implementation science.Our goal is to add value to your intervention by providing the best access to data, information, training and the monitoring and evaluation of program activities possible in the context of a rapidly globalizing world with a humanitarian perspective.

Current Areas Of Focus

  • Education for behavioral change with a special focus on early female childhood education as the best known intervention for economic and social development.
  • Implementing appropriate design and methods for evidence-based decision-making.
  • A guiding principle is to introduce environmental sustainability in all aspects of project management and implementation.
  • We support humanitarian principles as they impact all aspects of individual and organizational change.
  • We move our partners towards institutional stability by capacity building at all levels to organize  change for positive improvements in chosen outcomes.

Our History

Socio-technical Consultants, LLC (Sociotech) was started by Dr. Alvin Lee Bertrand in Louisiana in 1981. Dr. Bertrand (now deceased) was a rural sociologist who came from modest south Louisiana roots and was a lifelong proponent of the impact of technology on society. He focused on rural problems that were significant in his time and his consultancies were around the issue of technology and society.
Upon his passing in 2006, his son,Dr. William E. Bertrand, assumed control of the company keeping it alive during the ensuing years. In 2011, Dr. Joy L. Jones, a specialist in program management and implementation, became the President and primary owner making Socio-tech a woman-owned small business.

Prior Program Activities

Program Evaluation
GE-NMF Primary Care Leadership Program (PCLP)
The General Electric (GE) – National Medical Fellowships (NMF) PCLP is a foundation-funded, 4-year, $6.3 million national program that provides service-learning scholarships to minority and/or socioeconomically disadvantaged health professional students interested in primary healthcare delivery and increasing access to healthcare for underserved communities. PCLP is a complex, multi-faceted program with numerous stakeholders operating across the US. PCLP has an ambitious and aggressive plan for program development and growth, which includes annual expansion in the number of scholarships awarded, program cities and partner sites. In addition, PCLP will launch a separate capstone scholarship award in 2014. In 2011, Sociotech was contracted by National Medical Fellowships (NMF) during the program proposal process to conceptualize and design the overall evaluation strategy and plan for the program. In December 2011, NMF was awarded the grant as the sole administrator and implementer of the program.
Launched in 2012, Sociotech was contracted to implement the PCLP evaluation strategy on an annual basis. Sociotech is responsible for all aspects of the program evaluation including study design, instrument development, data collection and analysis and reporting.

Project Assessment

Annual Assessment of GE Donated Equipment in Ghana (2008-2011)

As part of its Developing Health Globally initiative, the GE Foundation has donated basic equipment packages to district hospitals in several developing countries. As part of the GE/NMF International Medical Scholars Program evaluation, Sociotech was tasked in 2008 to conduct an annual assessment of the use of donated medical equipment in program hospitals in Ghana.

Category: Evaluation

Date: December 2008

Client: GE Foundation

Place: United States

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Project Evaluation

GE/NMF International Medical Scholars Program

The GE/NMF International Medical Scholars Program is a foundation-funded international program that provides service-learning scholarships to 4th year minority medical students to work in district hospitals in developing countries.

Sociotech has been the program evaluator since the program was launched in 2007. Sociotech is responsible for all aspects of the program evaluation including study design, instrument development, data collection and analysis and reporting.