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Appropriate technology is technology that is appropriate to the environmental, cultural and economic situation it is intended for. It usually describes technologies which are suitable for use in the majority world (or "developing nations").

Appropedia is the "appropriate technology wiki" (and more) and many of the pages on this website could be said to be about appropriate technology. Appropriate technology is not about defining a particular technology as appropriate for all situations, but about principles for choosing the best technology for a given situation.

The focus of this portal is on links to Appropedia categories that include examples of technologies suitable for the majority world.

Category tree

Sample pages

South-North knowledge transfer

Hexayurt Project

Rope pump

Small Scale Vegetable Oil Extraction

Solar Drying in Morocco

Grameen Phone

CCAT pedal powered innovations

Appropriate technology feeds

AfriGadget Blog

AIDG Blog

Agroinnovations Blog

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 '''[[Appropriate technology]]''' is technology that is appropriate to the environmental, cultural and economic situation it is intended for. It usually describes technologies which are suitable for use in the majority world (or "developing nations").
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 [[South-North knowledge transfer]]
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+'''<big>Appropriate technology feeds</big>'''
+''AfriGadget Blog''
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-'''Wikipedia''':
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-*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology Article] - definition, and summaries of appropriate technologies.
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-*[[Wikipedia:Category:Appropriate technology advocates|Advocates and inventors category]]
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-*[http://www.villageearth.org/atnetwork/atsourcebook/index.htm The Appropriate Technology Sourcebook] (from Village Earth).
-*[http://journeytoforever.org/at.html Journey to Forever]
-*[http://www.aidg.org/technologies.htm AIDG - Appropriate Technologies] and the [http://www.aidg.net/ AIDG Technology Network]
-*[http://practicalaction.org/ Practical Action] (and note their [[:Category:PATB|technical briefs on Appropedia]])
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-'''Appropriate technology blogs''':
-*[http://www.afrigadget.com/ AfriGadget]
-*[http://ewbappropriatetechnology.blogspot.com/ EWB-SFP Appropriate Technology Design Team] (stoves).
-'''Blogs covering sustainability and appropriate technology''':
-*[http://www.blog.thesietch.org/ The Sietch]
-*[http://www.worldchanging.com/ WorldChanging] (a [[bright green]] approach).
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-==Organization and users==
+''Agroinnovations Blog''
-* Many of the [[organizations]] on Appropedia have a focus on appropriate technology.
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-* See also the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Appropriate_technology_organizations Appropriate technology organizations category] on Wikipedia.
+|feedurl=http://agroinnovations.com/index.php/en_us?format=feed&type=rss
-* Users: see [[:Category:Users interested in appropriate technology|Users interested in appropriate technology]] (but this is probably true of most of the users on this site, more or less).
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 ==See also==
 * [[Intermediate technology]] synonym for "appropriate technology".
 * [[Portal:Portals|List of portals]]
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