APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY

1. "Technology that can be made with local materials by local people at an affordable price, whilst benefiting individuals and communities"

2. Case studies

   • The use of solar cookers in Kenya
     • Effective areas with long interrupted sunlight - 12 hours a day
     • Metal papers from used cigarette boxes and recycled cardboard
       • Cheap and easily sourced
       • Metal reflects sunlight concentrating it on a cooking pot
         • Renewable & free
     • Feed a family of 3-4 people
     • Provides women with the opportunity of enterprise
       • Initially trained 23 women to make and sell
       • Can send their children to school
     • No more smoke that can cause respiratory problems
     • Reduces strain on wood resources - fuelwood crisis
       • Fell by 40%
   • Micro-hydro energy in Peru
     • Practical Action - locally constructed pipeline & powerhouse
     • 50 schemes in mountainous areas - usually hard to distribute to
     • Created jobs
     • Uses power of the river to create electricity
     • High users of electricity are given cheaper rates
       • Encourages start up businesses
     • Implications: funding could be diverted from health and education