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Appropriate technology from the open-design movement
Open-source appropriate technology (OSAT) is appropriate technology developed through the principles of the open-design movement. Appropriate technology is technology designed with special consideration for the environmental, ethical, cultural, social, political, and economic aspects of the community it is intended for. Open design is public and licensed to allow it to be used, modified, and distributed freely. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Open-source appropriate technologyA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Financial auditThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: 3-D Printing of Open Source Appropriate Technologies for Self-Directed Sustainable DevelopmentCited 163 times
- Go sideways: Appropriate technologyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Open-design movementA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
3-D Printing of Open Source Appropriate Technologies for Self-Directed Sustainable Development
The case for open source appropriate technology
Open Source as appropriate technology for global education
Open-source Software for Developing Appropriate Smart Manufacturing Technology for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Could open source ecology and open source appropriate technology be used as a roadmap from technology colony?
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕Financial auditUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1943
Writing ArgumentsJohn D. Ramage, John C. Bean · 2000
Technical CommunicationJohn M. Lannon · 2000
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
Art since 1900Hal Foster, Rosalind E. Krauss · 2004
Taking sidesThomas A. Easton · 2000
E-Reference Context and Discoverability in LibrariesSue Polanka · 2011
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đź”— Related topics
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- Open-design movement The open-design movement involves the development of physical products, machines and systems through use of publicly shared design information. This includes…
- Open-source hardware Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) is hardware whose design source files — schematics, CAD files, bill of materials — are made publicly available, allowing…
- Appropedia Appropedia is a wiki-based website that contains content relating to sustainability, poverty, environmental degradation, and international development…
- Distributed manufacturing Distributed manufacturing, also known as distributed production, cloud producing, distributed digital manufacturing, and local manufacturing, is a form…
- Open research Open research is research that is openly accessible by others. Those who publish research in this way are often concerned with making research more transparent…
- RepRap RepRap (a contraction of replicating rapid prototyper) is a project to develop low-cost 3D printers that can print most of their own components. As open…
- Recyclebot A recyclebot (or RecycleBot) is an open-source hardware device for converting waste plastic into filament for open-source 3D printers like the RepRap.…