The Appropriate Technology Collaborative is a registered charity based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA and San Marcos la Laguna, Guatemala.
ATC works with groups in less economically developed countries to identify technology and program needs and then develop solutions tailored to those needs.
Mission statement
"Over two billion people live without access to basic infrastructure services such as clean water, sanitation and electricity. Another billion people live in slum cities, with minimal infrastructure. The great majority of these people illuminate their homes with kerosene lamps, cook their food over wood fires, and lack potable water. Living like this, with poor sanitation leads to malnutrition, disease and early death.
The Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to design, develop, demonstrate and distribute appropriate technological solutions for meeting basic human needs of low income people worldwide. ATC works in collaboration with their clients and other nonprofits (NGOs) to create technologies that are culturally sensitive, environmentally responsible and locally repairable in order to improve the quality of life, enhance safety, and reduce adverse impacts on their environment.
ATC partners with the people and communities they serve. ATC commits to long term relationships with their client communities so that they can better understand and design for specific client's needs.
In 2016 ATC's program Mayan Power and Light was recognized as a global top 100 sustainable solution by Sustainia and the United Nations Compact for Sustainable Development. Link: http://bit.ly/ATC_MPL_Global_100"[1]
Resources and publications
ATC Design Library:
- Solar LED lighting - Mayan Power and Light: http://apptechdesign.org/apptechdv2/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/mayalight5.jpg
- Solar refrigeration - http://bit.ly/ATC_Solar_Refrigerator
- Treadle pump - http://bit.ly/ATC_TreadlePump
- Affordable Insulation - http://bit.ly/ATC_Affordable_Insul
- Ram Pump - http://bit.ly/ATC_RamPump
These designs are on the ATC site, more to come!