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.