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Welcome to Appropedia's Portal page for Appropriate Technology

Appropriate technology is technology that is appropriate to the environmental, cultural and economic situation it is intended for. It usually describes technologies which are suitable for use in the majority world (or "developing nations").

Appropedia is the "appropriate technology wiki" and many of the pages on this website could be said to be about appropriate technology. Appropriate technology is not about defining a particular technology as appropriate for all situations, but about principles for choosing the appropriate technology for a given situation.

The focus of this portal is on links to Appropedia categories that include examples of technologies suitable for the majority world.

Topics

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CCAT pedal powered innovations

South-North knowledge transfer

Rope pump

Grameen Phone

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Appropriateness:

• Culture and community

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Technologies

• Construction and materials
• Energy
• Health and safety

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• ICT and Education
• Information and communication
• Transport
• Water

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• Alternative building
• Biofuel
• Cookers
• Renewable energy

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• Sanitation
• Water supply
• Water purification
• Organizations - See also the Wikipedia category.

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• Category page

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• CCAT's Vermicomposting Bin
• Chris's ENGR305 Solar Food Dehydrator

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• Small Scale Vegetable Oil Extraction
• Solar Drying in Morocco

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• Solar and Energy Conserving Food Technologies
• Solar salt
• Solar distillation

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• Article - definition, and summaries of appropriate technologies.
• Category
• Advocates and inventors category

Encyclopedic info is at Wikipedia, while information and specific projects are described here on Appropedia. |style="width:28%"| Appropriate technology at:

• The Appropriate Technology Sourcebook (from Village Earth).
• Journey to Forever
• AIDG - Appropriate Technologies and the AIDG Technology Network
• Practical Action (formerly ITDG)

|style="width:28%"| Appropriate technology blogs:

• AfriGadget
• EWB-SFP Appropriate Technology Design Team (stoves).

Blogs covering sustainability and appropriate technology:

• The Sietch
• WorldChanging (a bright green approach).

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Organization and users

• Many of the organizations on Appropedia have a focus on appropriate technology.
• See also Wikipedia:Category:Appropriate technology organizations
• Users: see Users interested in appropriate technology (but this is probably true of most of the users on this site, more or less).

See also

• List of portals

Resources

• Appropriate Technology Custom Search: A Google Co-op Custom Search Tool for finding quality information related to Sustainable Tech Sources for the Developing World.