Law and Callon conceived the global network as providing
resources for the local network, and the latter providing reports, artefacts and other deliverables in return.
The categories
of intermediary they see as passing between the networks can be identified as financial, material, informational
and political. But missing from this account is the epistemic: the knowledge-related items that flow, from
simple ideas to elements of discourse, mental models and frameworks of understanding. These have been identified
by others as important intermediaries moving between global and local networks in projects generally (Gorman and
Mehalik, 2002; Alderman and Ivory, 2011), and to play an important role in the life of development projects
(Rossi, 2004; Mosse, 2005).