{"id":30256,"key":"Gandhian_engineering","title":"Gandhian engineering","latest":{"id":1206544,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T20:21:33Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"Embracing Mahatma Gandhi's ideal of '''\"doing more, for less, for more,\"''' the growing '''Ghandian engineering''' movement aims to democratize technology by developing ultra-low-cost products for the world's poorest citizens while still creating a profit for companies\n\n== R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products ==\n\nEngineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost design from India that use bottom-up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring expensive products (cars, prosthetics) into the realm of the possible for everyone.\n\n<center>\n\n{{Video\n| video = GulwrMVJPf0\n}}\n\n</center>\n\n== See also ==\n\n* https://gyti.techpedia.in/news-detail/6\n* https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/gandhian-engineering-important-tool-to-boost-sustainable-development-growth-post-pandemic-raghunath-mashelkar/story-DWMB9r6ndxze35y4jXUBeM.html\n* [https://www.ted.com/talks/r_a_mashelkar_breakthrough_designs_for_ultra_low_cost_products.html http://www.ted.com/talks/r_a_mashelkar_breakthrough_designs_for_ultra_low_cost_products.html]\n* [http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=1013&article=tionline/legacy/inst2010/feb10/GOLD.xml&;jsessionid=zghpMQ4Vm0Gb5vRJVCQKnxw5XvlnJ5WFdTLrpJj2vn0FsY3cL1GL!258585501!237172134 Introducing Gandhian Engineering] by JOHN R. PLATT\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Engineering]]\n[[Category:Design]]\n[[Category:Open source appropriate technology]]"}