This page has been specially curated to showcase Appropedia's latest projects. This page presents diverse initiatives, ranging from sustainability and innovation to environmental impact and social development. As a hub for collaborative knowledge sharing, Appropedia continues to inspire and support projects that make a real difference in our world.
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This guide is a tool for any tech practitioner to explore the systemic impact of digital services. It is intended as a starting point to think critically about your work and your ability to create a positive environmental influence for the Internet.
Knowledge Products and Solutions Mapping Guide
(86,094 pages) The Knowledge Products and Solutions Mapping Guide (Guía para productos de conocimiento y mapeo de soluciones), is a collaborative effort between the UNDP Acceleration Lab in El Salvador and the Appropedia Foundation. The guide aims to enhance the capabilities of international development professionals, NGOs, academics, and anyone interested in documenting solutions and innovations aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Tolocar Playbook
Inspired by the Ukrainian tradition of Toloka, which symbolizes solidarity through hands-on aid, German and Ukrainian teams, with support from GIZ, launched the Tolocar project amid the Russian invasion. This initiative aims to aid emergency relief and foster a participatory innovation ecosystem for Ukraine's socio-economic revival.
Cartografías Líquidas
Cartografías Líquidas is an impactful environmental project developed in El Salvador. Their mission is to foster collaborative creativity, resulting in artistic products, processes, and practices that generate knowledge and narratives surrounding environment, ecology, agroecology, climate change, memory, and territory.
Tolocar
Tolocar is an innovative project driven by collaboration between Insulate Ukraine, CADUS, and MetaLab. Their mission is to positively impact the lives of those affected by the socio-political situation in Ukraine.
Digital sustainability guide for tech practitioners
This guide is a tool for any tech practitioner to explore the systemic impact of digital services. It is intended as a starting point to think critically about your work and your ability to create a positive environmental influence for the Internet.
Hexayurt Project
The Hexayurt, inspired by the Rocky Mountain Institute, is a refugee shelter system designed as an autonomous unit. It provides shelter and essential family support features like water purification, composting toilets, fuel-efficient stoves, and solar lighting, with the flexibility to add modular components.
ENGR 205 Introduction to Design
In the ENGR 205 Introduction to Design course, students learn and experience the engineering design process with a sustainability focus. They are actively honing various computing skills essential for engineers and scientists, such as word processing, spreadsheet use, CAD (Computer-Aided Design), and internet proficiency, encompassing email, web searches, and web/wiki pages.
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Myanmar Rebuilding AppealAs Myanmar (Burma) has begun to loosen its doors to allow relief agencies US officials are reporting that the death toll may exceed 100,000 and that 1 million are displaced. [1] If you are interested in contributing to Architecture for Humanity's Myanmar Rebuilding efforts, please donate.
Our growing number of pages, members, visitors and edits had brought our site to a crawlingly slow speed. After two days of work, we are finally on a faster server with more expansion options. Thank you for your patience in what amounted to the longest amount of time we have been down in almost two years. Please let us know if you encounter problems. Enjoy.