Developing appropriate technology

Greening technologies
Increasing development of appropriate technology
Evolving appropriate technology
Developing appropriate technologies

Description

Developing appropriate technology involves designing and implementing tools, systems, and processes tailored to the specific social, economic, and environmental contexts of communities. This strategy prioritizes affordability, sustainability, and local resource use, aiming to address practical needs such as improved health, productivity, and self-reliance. By aligning technological solutions with local capacities and conditions, it remedies issues of inaccessibility, dependency, and unsuitability often caused by imported or overly complex technologies.

Claim

Transforming the orientation of technology is not simple, as technologies do not exist in isolation. They are linked to other technologies, embedded in socio-technological systems, and connected to networks of actors that depend ont hose technologies and systems for their economic position and status. The process of transformation to more sustainable forms of development will therefore involve change in technologies, socio-technical systems and, ultimately, in the relationships and position of actors in the networks that span these systems.