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Bernanke: Stimulus appropriate
US Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke said that it was appropriate for Congress to consider a stimulus package
Length: 119
Rating: 5.00 (2 ratings)
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Appropriate technology?
My first video production which try to show the issue of appropriateness in terms of local context and cultural diversity in a very simple case of 'eating tools'.
This video was produced as part of MAKS (Management of Agro-ecological Knowledge & Social Change) program Open Space group work activity. [MAKS, Social Sciences Group, Wageningen University]
Length: 243
Rating: 4.00 (3 ratings)
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Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for the Rural D
Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for the Rural Developing World
Tapan Parikh [Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley]
Abstract:
People living in the rural developing world have many information needs that could, but are not, being met by information technology. Technologies for this context must be low-cost, accessible to diverse populations and appropriate for the local infrastructure, including conditions of intermittent power and connectivity. In this talk, drawing from the results of an extended design study conducted with microfinance group members in rural India (many of whom were semi-literate or illiterate), I outline a set of user interface design guidelines for accessibility to such users. The results are used to motivate the design of CAM, a mobile phone application toolkit including support for paper-based interaction; multimedia input and output; and disconnected operation.
Through ekgaon technologies, a company that I co-founded, over 10,000 microfinance group members in India are using CAM to maintain their monthly records. In Mexico, we are conducting a pilot where over 1,000 small coffee farmers will use CAM to document their compliance with organic certification requirements. I will also discuss some of the more recent directions I have been pursuing with my students - including building mobile tools to improve the standard of health care delivery in sub-Saharan Africa, and designing information systems linking farmers to premium markets in South Asia.
Biography:
Tapan Parikh is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Tapan's research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), user interfaces for semi-literate users, mobile computing and information systems for microfinance, smallholder agriculture and global health. For the past eight years, Tapan has been designing, developing and deploying information systems in the rural developing world - initially in Asia, and now also in Latin America and Africa. He holds a Sc.B. degree in Molecular Modeling from Brown University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Tapan was named Technology Review magazine's Humanitarian of the Year in 2007.
Length: 3170
Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
Tags: CITRIS UCBerkeley Technology Science
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E. F. Schumacher on Appropriate Technology - 1
Introductory remarks and thoughts. Schumacher lecture on Appropriate Technology at the Great Circle Center, University of Illinois, Chicago, 3/19/77. (Peter Gillingham Collection, E. F. Schumacher Library Archives.)
Length: 280
Rating: 4.80 (4 ratings)
Tags: Intermediate Technology Human Scale
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Appropriate Technology Gains Ground in Developing Countries
Fuel efficient stoves and ceramic water purifiers are two examples of appropriate low-tech innovations that can help people in poor countries improve their quality of life. Because appropriate technology usually requires fewer resources and is easier to maintain than high-tech, development agencies and non-profit groups have promoted its use. In this third in a series on technology in developing countries, Cathy Majtenyi reports from Nairobi on appropriate technology including a well-publicized effort to provide low-tech laptops to children in poor countries.
Length: 256
Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
Tags: Fuel efficient stove ceramic water purifier high tech low-tech laptop peat candle majtenyi voa news
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