TFSR. Technology challenging poverty. Latin America In Peru and Bolivia, we help communities set up small-scale technological solutions in remote areas where there is no access to basic services, including electricity, heating, clean water and sanitation.
Western Africa Building on our recent extension of consultancy work into west Africa, Practical Action has recently set up an office to deliver impact at scale in Francophone west Africa. Appropedia. Appropriate Technology Library. Free project plans. Low-tech Magazine. ITKNET center. Concerning the activities of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Italy has received the mandate of organizing the Italian Centre for Local and Traditional Knowledge that has the following duties: In order to effectively increase the added value of this initiative in terms of outreach, efficiency and visibility and to further emphasize its global dimension, it is proposed to institutionally frame it within an intergovernmental setup, through the establishment in Florence of an International Centre on Traditional Knowledge.
The Italian Ministry of Environment, the UNCCD, UNESCO and the Regional Government of Tuscany have arranged an agreement for the creation of the International Centre on Traditional Knowledge. Florence, Italy — Facade and Garden of Villa di Careggi The International Centre it will managed by IPOGEA. Simple Appropriate Technologies. Open Source Ecology. Www.cd3wd.com - alexweir1949 - cd3wd - High Quality Technical Development Info for the Third World - and the SEEV fraud-proof voting system for the Third World - last updated 2011/03.