{"id":16323,"key":"Appropriate_technology_open_collaborations/Conclusions_and_recommendations","title":"Appropriate technology open collaborations/Conclusions and recommendations","latest":{"id":1261403,"timestamp":"2026-08-18T12:38:26Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Akvo navigation}}\n\n== Project output ==\n\n'''''Note''': The actual report as delivered verbally to Mark Charmer and Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson of [[Akvo]] in early 2009. The contents have influenced my blogging and wiki writing since then, and I am actively updating the pages (which are also [[open edit]]) but there isn't a specific category. The best suggestion is to view the pages linked from the navigation bar on the right. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]]''\n\n[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] is planning to blog and/or write on the wiki on these topics:\n\n* Interviews for blogs\n* Structure and syntax in OSAT\n** What ''is'' appropriate technology exactly? What kinds of data, information, knowledge and wisdom are we sharing?\n* Usability\n* Dispersed efforts for OSAT - upsides, downsides;\n** How to having our cake and eat it\n* [[Open design]] licenses\n* Give interviews: Agroinnovations; Ian Woolf and/or John August; approach NPR/ABC (Aust).\n\n== Possible areas of further thought and study ==\n\n* Explore different software options.\n** Can elements of a design be broken down in a way that they can be tracked in a \"history\"?\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Partnerships build knowledge. Appropedia highlights Akvo ATOC's lessons in tech-driven, people-centered development work.\n}}"}