Demotech, design for self-reliance is a Netherlands based foundation, dedicated to Appropriate technology.

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.

Apart from sustainable targets, 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.

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. 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.

Porting pages

Demotech has kindly offered their pages to be ported to Appropedia. If you are interested check out porting content for more.

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.
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!)

If Porting Please Note

If you do port a page, please include the following code at the bottom of the page (just above any categories): {{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 Template:Tlc code to a Demotech page.

Location and contact details

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

See Also

External links

http: Demotech, design for self-reliance

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