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About Demotech, design for self-reliance and our invitation to participate:

Demotech's design initiatives aim at "More joy per person". Life has more to offer then any consumer walhalla promises. Reduction of technology and in its wake economy, can go together with the raising of its quality. Far more comfort and leisure time can be had if we only re-design technology according to appropriate technical guidelines. Not meaning this is easy. But -yes- meaning it can easily be done in an Open Source collaborative approach. There are many examples that guide the way, but -no- such a collaborative culture joint effort still has to come into being.

More about Demotech.

Redesign, the design space that offers sustainable solutions

Demotech's contribution consists of technical research into ultra low cost and truly sustainable technical solutions. Next to this, Demotech centers on how to get the story about such solutions across to an unwilling world, without hope or expectations that such solutions do- respectively can exist.

Listen and Learn, contacting a new reality

In search for an enjoyable sustainable world Demotech wants to draw lessons from people living in poverty. "Learning from Poverty" is the short cut towards a sustainable society.

Think and Write, structuring new thoughts

Proper study of the positive aspects of life in poverty that fit into the "Technology within Poverty" proves to be inspiring. To start re-design at the economic level of poverty gives the realistic framework for sustainability. Demotech found numerous options for this approach and has succeeded to get one generally accepted. We listed similar successes elsewhere.

Designs that assist these targets can be found in this group. Demotech, design for self-reliance is a Netherlands based foundation, dedicated to Appropriate technology.

Demotech's categories of designs

Means to get informed

http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=1

Empowering people to transmit their ideas to others in demonstrations or exhibitions. To make construction manuals for designs easy to use, but also easy to make. Means for studying. Aids to run a project.

Making made easier

http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=2

Practical tricks, handy aids and small tools that help to make things in a faster, and generally more efficient way. Many of the Demotech designs make good use of such tools or working methods.

Better living

http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-category.php?d=3

Better living is about raising the quality of what is a home: free to choose who to share it with. Get in the good things as light and air. Keep out what is not wanted: rain, heat, cold. A place to organize your life in, with a family, with work, with neighbors and all this in comfort and in peace. World wide this is hard to get. It has priority to become available in a sustainable way.

Water & Sanitation

http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=4

Project initiatives to improve access to water and sanitation, to remove restrictions of cost, to reduce the effort to supply, to ascertain safe use and consumption, to organize proper disposal or secondary use. Ways of teaching and promoting rapid and general adoption of appropriate solutions

Localize Energy

http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=6

Means to harvest energy from sun, wind, water flow, animal and human power. Means to extract energy from burning fuel. Means to convert energy, mechanical, electrical and heating. Mechanical components for conversion of the speed of rotation. Means to do so locally with what is locally available.

Sound mobility

http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=7

Redesign transportation for people and goods where it matters for sustainability, for quality, in conditions of poverty, for people disabled. Wether used individually or collectively. Add more flexibility, comfort and fun to transportation.

Search Demotech publications

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/d-papers.php?d=11

Here you can find all the articles that are published by Demotech.

Search other publications

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/d-papers.php?d=13

Here you can articles by others about Demotech or about the Demotech approach.

Search Demotech publications in the Dutch language

http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/d-papers.php?d=83

Find here all Demotech's publications written in the Dutch Language

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 approach.

Location and contact details

Biesenwal 3, 6211 AD Maastricht, the Netherlands email: info AT demotech.org

Feedback

Feedback is crucial to any appropriate technology project. Demotech requests detailed feedback as reward for its otherwise freely distributed contributions. To leave feedback, you can:

Visit Demotech, design for self-reliance
Email info AT demotech.org
Leave a comment on the discussion tab
Leave comments for any of the User:'s listed under Articles

Thank you!

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-==='''''Under Construction'''''===
+'''About Demotech, design for self-reliance and our invitation to participate''':
-''This page will be molested for some time, hopefully only a few weeks. Demotech will try to create a meaningful tree stucture, that is more or less similar to the tree structure in [http://www.demotech.org Demotech's website]. The man who does it (that's me, Reinder van Tijen, Demotech's initiator) is a newbie to MediaWiki, so learning is slow and painful. There we go!''
-==='''About Demotech, design for self-reliance and our invitation to participate'''===
+Demotech's design initiatives aim at "[http://www.demotech.org/d-design/designA.html?d=61 More joy per person]". Life has more to offer then any consumer walhalla promises. Reduction of technology and in its wake economy, can go together with the raising of its quality. Far more comfort and leisure time can be had if we only re-design technology according to appropriate technical guidelines. Not meaning this is easy. But -yes- meaning it can easily be done in an [http://www.demotech.org/d-design/designA.html?d=50 Open Source] collaborative approach. There are many examples that guide the way, but -no- such a collaborative culture joint effort still has to come into being.
-Demotech's design initiatives aim at "[http://www.demotech.org/d-design/designA.html?d=61 More joy per person]". Life has more to offer then any consumer walhalla promises. Reduction of technology and in its wake economy, can go together with the raising of its quality. Far more comfort and leisure time can be had if we only re-design technology according to appropriate technical guidelines. Not meaning this is easy. But -yes- meaning it can easily be done in an [http://www.demotech.org/d-design/designA.html?d=50 Open Source] collaborative approach. There are many examples that guide the way, but -no- such a collaborative culture joint effort still has to come into being.
+''[[:Category:Demotech_About | More about Demotech]].''
+{{toc right}}
+===[[:Category:Demotech_Redesign |'''Redesign, the design space that offers sustainable solutions''']]===
+[[Image:D002_070606MindMap_1.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
+Demotech's contribution consists of technical research into ultra low cost and truly sustainable technical solutions. Next to this, Demotech centers on how to get the story about such solutions across to an unwilling world, without hope or expectations that such solutions do- respectively can exist.
+===[[:Category:Demotech_Listen |'''Listen and Learn, contacting a new reality''']]===
+[[Image:D002_070606MindMap_2.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
-==='''Redesign, the design space that offers sustainable solutions'''===
-Demotech's contribution consists of technical research into ultra low cost and truly sustainable technical solutions. Next to this Demotech centers on how to get the story about such solutions across to an unwilling world without hope or expectations that such solutions do- respectively can exist.
-==='''Listen and Learn, contacting the new reality'''===
 In search for an enjoyable sustainable world Demotech wants to draw lessons from people living in poverty. "[http://www.demotech.org/d-design/designA.html?d=63 Learning from Poverty]" is the short cut towards a sustainable society.
-==='''Think and Write, structuring new thoughts'''===
+===[[:Category:Demotech_Think |'''Think and Write, structuring new thoughts''']]===
-Proper study of the positive aspects of life in poverty that fit into the "Technology within Poverty" proves to be inspiring. To start re-design at the economic level of poverty gives the realistic framework for sustainability. Demotech found numerous options for this approach and has succeeded to get one generally accepted. We listed similar successes elsewhere.
+[[Image:D002_070606MindMap_3.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]
+Proper study of the positive aspects of life in poverty that fit into the "Technology within Poverty" proves to be inspiring. To start re-design at the economic level of poverty gives the realistic framework for [[sustainability]]. Demotech found numerous options for this approach and has succeeded to get one generally accepted. We listed similar successes elsewhere.
+Designs that assist these targets can be found in this group.
 '''Demotech, design for self-reliance''' is a Netherlands based foundation, dedicated to [[Appropriate technology]].
-==Porting pages==
+----
-Demotech has kindly offered their pages to be [[Appropedia:Port pages|ported]] to Appropedia.  If you are interested check out [[:Category:Demotech/Porting content|porting content]] for more.
+==='''Demotech's categories of designs'''===
+===[[:Category:Demotech_Means_to_get_informed |'''Means to get informed''']]===
+http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=1
+Empowering people to transmit their ideas to others in demonstrations or exhibitions. To make construction manuals for designs easy to use, but also easy to make. Means for studying. Aids to run a project.
+===[[:Category:Making_made_easier |'''Making made easier''']]===
+http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=2
+Practical tricks, handy aids and small tools that help to make things in a faster, and generally more efficient way. Many of the Demotech designs make good use of such tools or working methods.
+===[[:Category:Better_living |'''Better living''']]===
+http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-category.php?d=3
+Better living is about raising the quality of what is a home: free to choose who to share it with. Get in the good things as light and air. Keep out what is not wanted: rain, heat, cold. A place to organize your life in, with a family, with work, with neighbors and all this in comfort and in peace. World wide this is hard to get. It has priority to become available in a sustainable way.
+===[[:Category:Demotech_Water_&_Sanitation |'''Water & Sanitation''']]===
+http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=4
+Project initiatives to improve access to water and sanitation, to remove restrictions of cost, to reduce the effort to supply, to ascertain safe use and consumption, to organize proper disposal or secondary use. Ways of teaching and promoting rapid and general adoption of appropriate solutions
-Note from Demotech: Keep a clearly marked feedback link to Demotech in anything you port from our pages. Without feedback no de-bugging of our hardware and method is and no further improvement. Also less fun, as feedback is the big attraction coming back from offering content. So clarify state that almost all our pages regard projects in progress. Few of them are clear 'How To' items  When porting our pages make clear that the latest info on that particular item can most probably be found at the original Demotech web page.<br>
+===[[:Category:Demotech_Localize Energy |'''Localize Energy''']]===
-Last but not least add to your ported page that the Demotech page also is linked to a Wiki-section for precisely this kind of feedback. (Although there is also a forum!)
+http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=6
-==If Porting, Please Note==
+Means to harvest energy from sun, wind, water flow, animal and human power. Means to extract energy from burning fuel. Means to convert energy, mechanical, electrical and heating. Mechanical components for conversion of the speed of rotation. Means to do so locally with what is locally available.
-The sole condition for use of Demotech designs is to provide a link back to its origin attached to the information from Demotech. And please, let this link not only contain name and (web)-address of Demotech, but also a few lines that the author expects explicit and detailed feedback as a rightful reward for its otherwise freely to be used contribution. Feed back regards all reasons for change, how change worked out, how many people used or made it, yes or no to satisfaction and more ....<br/>
-This pre-condition looks like the Creative Commons Licenses, specially the license 'Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0' that seemed somehow to answer what we look for. However not with the specific request condition as named.
-If you do port a page, please include this above request and the following code at the bottom of the page (just above any categories): {{Tl|Demotechpage}}
-Please see [[Template:Demotechpage]] to see the text this code (template) adds to a page.  This code also categorizes the page as a Demotech page, so there is no need to add the {{Tlc|Demotech}} code to a Demotech page.
+===[[:Category:Demotech_Sound_mobility |'''Sound mobility''']]===
+http://www.demotech.org/d-design/d-categories.php?cat=7
+Redesign transportation for people and goods where it matters for sustainability, for quality, in conditions of poverty, for people disabled. Wether used individually or collectively. Add more flexibility, comfort and fun to transportation.
+----
+===[[:Category:Demotech_Search_Demotech_publications |'''Search Demotech publications''']]===
+http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/d-papers.php?d=11<br>
+Here you can find all the articles that are published by Demotech.<br>
+<br>
+'''Search other publications'''<br>
+http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/d-papers.php?d=13<br>
+Here you can articles by others about Demotech or about the Demotech approach.<br>
+<br>
+'''Search Demotech publications in the Dutch language'''<br>
+http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/d-papers.php?d=83<br>
+Find here all Demotech's publications written in the Dutch Language<br>
+===[[:Category:Demotech_Defining_Concepts |'''Defining concepts''']]===
+http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/d-concepts.php?cat=12<br>
+Here you can find definitions and explanations on concepts that are often used in our website, publications and approach.
 ==Location and contact details==
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 email: info AT demotech.org
-==See Also==
+== See also==
 *Demotech's statement on [[:Category:Demotech/Learning_from_Poverty|Learning from Poverty]]
 ==Feedback==
-Feedback is crucial to any appropriate technology project.  Demotech requests detailed feedback as payment for its otherwise freely distributed contributions.  To leave feedback, you can:
+Feedback is crucial to any appropriate technology project.  Demotech requests detailed feedback as reward for its otherwise freely distributed contributions.  To leave feedback, you can:
 *Visit [http://www.demotech.org Demotech, design for self-reliance]
 *Email info AT demotech.org
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 *Leave comments for any of the '''User:''''s listed under Articles
-Thank you.
+Thank you!
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 [[Category:Netherlands]]
+[[Category:Appropriate technology organizations]]
+[[Category:International development]]
-[[Category:Organizations]]
+[[Category:Demotech]]