Defining concepts

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/d-concepts.php?cat=12

Here you can find definitions and explanations on concepts that are often used in our website, publications and in our approach.

More Joy Per Person

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=61

What type of target should Demotech's design iniatives serve? In a wide choice of ideologies available, Demotech creates a new one: We go for 'More Joy Per Person'.

Open Source design

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=50

Overtake environmental decline by environmental improvement by the intens collaboration on Internet of dedicated people in the re-design of technologies.

Democracy Sustaining Technology

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=71

Redesign technology to become a mayor tool and method to enhance Democracy offering equal opportunities to all.

Learning from Poverty

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=63

Deep Poverty indicates the failure of modern ecomomy as well as how modern economy can be organized in a sustainable and more satisfying way

Sustainability Now!

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=54

Sustainability is a prerogrative for future economic and thereby social stability. Demotech design initiatives show how full sustainability for many products can be achieved.

Fast Learning

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=82

To achieve Sustainability in time, meaning before utter dispair in poverty and utter disinterest from wealthy consumers turns this worls into a radical facist 1984-like culture, we have to learn to LEARN fast.

Shared Innovation

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=78

Under construction

Home Work

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=77

Change homework from low wage left-over bits industrial work into a sustainable and self-reliant effective mode of production, Do so by offering Open Source production info. Where needed: offer tool sets and training

Peace Studies

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=84

Appropriate Technology is regarded by many in the field of Peace or Conflict studies regarded as a valuable tool. This page links such studies to Demotech design initiatives and theory.

Initial Designs

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=65

First ideas on a new design initiative should be well written down. They are like dreams, very easely forgotten!

SCOT in Action

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=87

The perspective of SCOT is that technological change is not a simple matter of good inventions but emerge because of social needs. A SCOT analysis explains success and failure of technological artifacts by means of social factors.

Constructing the Demotech website

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=2

Considerations and toolbox for working on this website. Support remote cooperation in contributing and editing for this website possible

Communicating Demotech

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=56

What Demotech is about needs to be communicated to a wider public. Suggestions for PR as presented here need to be workded on.

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Created October 6, 2008 by Demotech
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