Saturday, June 17, 2006
linkliste | 17.06.2006
http://www.tifac.org.in/
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Institution für Forschung und Technologie in Indien. Untersucht globale Trends für Indien. High-Tech meets Low-Tech.
http://www.bmtpc.org/
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Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council - India Habitat Centre. Entwickelt Bautechnologien mit unterschiedlichsten, einfachsten Materialien wie Bambus, Recycling,... Entwickelt auch Maschinen für den Einsatz in Indien. Das Motto lautet: from Lab to Land
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Institution für Forschung und Technologie in Indien. Untersucht globale Trends für Indien. High-Tech meets Low-Tech.
http://www.bmtpc.org/
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Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council - India Habitat Centre. Entwickelt Bautechnologien mit unterschiedlichsten, einfachsten Materialien wie Bambus, Recycling,... Entwickelt auch Maschinen für den Einsatz in Indien. Das Motto lautet: from Lab to Land
Friday, June 09, 2006
technologie transfer
Technology and Society | http://www.itdg.org
A top-down agricultural reform programme in Indonesia turns into a bottom-up movement for political accountability and agricultural change.
The brown plant hopper on the Indonesian rice harvest of 1986 forced the national government to introduce a strategy that moved away from pesticide use towards methods of pest control based on combining external expertise with the farmers' own knowledge of their fields. A co-operative programme between the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Indonesian government centred on Farmer Field Schools (FFS)... The Schools also aimed to support and develop farmers' expertise in their own fields, enabling them to replace their reliance on external inputs such as pesticides with indigenous skills, knowledge and resources. Over time the emphasis of the programme shifted towards community organisation and planning of integrated pest management, and became known as Community IPM. Farmer Field Schools has spread to more than one million rice farmers in Indonesia. It might be expected that such 'scaling up' of a successful practice could only occur via a shift in policy by national policy-makers, followed by incentives for farmers to change their practices. However, one of the key lessons from Indonesia, a country with a fragile democratic system that did not allow public meetings of any kind, is the extent to which Schools of 20 and more people were initially allowed and then gradually organised into farmers' unions, which forced a reluctant government to change not only agricultural but other policies related to rural technologies, livelihoods and governance. Farmer groups and associations have now developed their own organisational and advocacy functions, and so are able to bring about pro-farmer policy changes at national and local government level.
A top-down agricultural reform programme in Indonesia turns into a bottom-up movement for political accountability and agricultural change.
The brown plant hopper on the Indonesian rice harvest of 1986 forced the national government to introduce a strategy that moved away from pesticide use towards methods of pest control based on combining external expertise with the farmers' own knowledge of their fields. A co-operative programme between the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Indonesian government centred on Farmer Field Schools (FFS)... The Schools also aimed to support and develop farmers' expertise in their own fields, enabling them to replace their reliance on external inputs such as pesticides with indigenous skills, knowledge and resources. Over time the emphasis of the programme shifted towards community organisation and planning of integrated pest management, and became known as Community IPM. Farmer Field Schools has spread to more than one million rice farmers in Indonesia. It might be expected that such 'scaling up' of a successful practice could only occur via a shift in policy by national policy-makers, followed by incentives for farmers to change their practices. However, one of the key lessons from Indonesia, a country with a fragile democratic system that did not allow public meetings of any kind, is the extent to which Schools of 20 and more people were initially allowed and then gradually organised into farmers' unions, which forced a reluctant government to change not only agricultural but other policies related to rural technologies, livelihoods and governance. Farmer groups and associations have now developed their own organisational and advocacy functions, and so are able to bring about pro-farmer policy changes at national and local government level.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
LINKS
http://www.basin.info
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The building network BASIN was set up in 1988 by three European organisations: (SKAT/Switzerland, Practical Action (formerly ITDG)/United Kingdom and GTZ-GATE/Germany).
The aim of the cooperation was to provide information and advice on appropriate building technology and to create links with know-how resources and experts around the world for all those in need of relevant information.
Gegenwärtig gehören dem BASIN Netzwerk neun internationale Mitgliedsorganisationen an:
* Centro Experimental de la Vivienda Economica
* CEVE in Argentinien
* CRATerre in Frankreich
* Development Alternatives (DA) in Indien
* Ecosur in Nicaragua
* gtz/gate in Deutschland
* Practical Action (früher ITDG) in Großbritannien
* Pagtambayayong Foundation auf den Philippinen
* Shelter Forum in Kenia
* SKAT in der Schweiz.
http://www.sdcn.org/
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The Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN) is a group of leading civil society organizations seeking to accelerate the implementation of sustainable development through broader, integrated information and communications about what we know.
* Development Alternatives (DA), India
* Earth Council, Costa Rica
* Environmental Development Action in the Third World (ENDA-TM), Senegal
* Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), Argentina
* International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada
* Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), Hungary
* Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden
http://www.gtz.de/gate
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German Appropriate Technology and Ecoefficiency Programme. Mehrere Fallstudien zeigen, dass die Informationsdienste von GATE und der GATE Partner zu einer höheren Produktivität und einem höheren Einkommen von Kleinproduzenten beigetragen haben.
http://www.skat-foundation.org/
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As a socially responsible organisation Skat is convinced that all acquired knowledge since its establishment in 1978 shall be accessible to all. At the same time Skat would like to contribute to knowlege sharing and learning in development cooperation.
NETWORK: Solid waste management, Water supply and sanitation, Mobility and transport, Building and settlement development, Knowledge management
http://www.t-forum.org
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Es sollen vor allem Technologien gefördert werden, die die Selbsthilfe ärmerer Bevölkerungsgruppen und das Kleingewerbe fördern, die auf der Nutzung lokaler Ressourcen basieren und mit den sozialen, kulturellen, ökologischen und wirtschaftlichen Gegebenheiten einer Region in Einklang stehen und
b) die Zusammenarbeit und den Erfahrungsaustausch der Mitgliedsorganisationen zu intensivieren und dabei die Partner besonders einzubeziehen.
http://www.ruralstudio.com
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The student joins a poverty-stricken region and “shares the sweat” with a housing client who lives far below the poverty level. The goal of this exercise is to refine the student’s social conscience and to learn first-hand the necessary social, cultural and technological concepts of designing and building.
http://www.ceve.org.ar
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CEVE (Centro Experimental de la Vivienda Económica) ist eine regierungsunabhängige professionelle Vereinigung und Mitglied von AVE (Asociación de Vivienda Económica) in Argentinien. Seine Ziele sind die Verbreitung von Niedrigkostenwohnungsbau und die Schaffung von neuen Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten durch Forschung und Entwicklung, Training und Technologietransfer.
http://www.earthcouncilalliance.org
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Earth Council Alliance (ECA) supports Earth Councils and other people and organizations committed to sustainability initiatives and preserving the world for today’s peoples and future generations. As an international organization, we are a non-government organization (NGO) incorporated in Switzerland.
http://www.fakt-consult.de
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Rural development and agriculture, food technology, water supply & sanitation, energy for rural development; small and mediumscale enterprise development and employment generation, vocational training; organisational development and project management.
http://www.barefootcollege.org/
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For more than thirty years,the Barefoot College has been working to improve the quality of life of the rural poor.
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The building network BASIN was set up in 1988 by three European organisations: (SKAT/Switzerland, Practical Action (formerly ITDG)/United Kingdom and GTZ-GATE/Germany).
The aim of the cooperation was to provide information and advice on appropriate building technology and to create links with know-how resources and experts around the world for all those in need of relevant information.
Gegenwärtig gehören dem BASIN Netzwerk neun internationale Mitgliedsorganisationen an:
* Centro Experimental de la Vivienda Economica
* CEVE in Argentinien
* CRATerre in Frankreich
* Development Alternatives (DA) in Indien
* Ecosur in Nicaragua
* gtz/gate in Deutschland
* Practical Action (früher ITDG) in Großbritannien
* Pagtambayayong Foundation auf den Philippinen
* Shelter Forum in Kenia
* SKAT in der Schweiz.
http://www.sdcn.org/
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The Sustainable Development Communications Network (SDCN) is a group of leading civil society organizations seeking to accelerate the implementation of sustainable development through broader, integrated information and communications about what we know.
* Development Alternatives (DA), India
* Earth Council, Costa Rica
* Environmental Development Action in the Third World (ENDA-TM), Senegal
* Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), Argentina
* International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada
* Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), Hungary
* Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden
http://www.gtz.de/gate
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German Appropriate Technology and Ecoefficiency Programme. Mehrere Fallstudien zeigen, dass die Informationsdienste von GATE und der GATE Partner zu einer höheren Produktivität und einem höheren Einkommen von Kleinproduzenten beigetragen haben.
http://www.skat-foundation.org/
-----------
As a socially responsible organisation Skat is convinced that all acquired knowledge since its establishment in 1978 shall be accessible to all. At the same time Skat would like to contribute to knowlege sharing and learning in development cooperation.
NETWORK: Solid waste management, Water supply and sanitation, Mobility and transport, Building and settlement development, Knowledge management
http://www.t-forum.org
-----------
Es sollen vor allem Technologien gefördert werden, die die Selbsthilfe ärmerer Bevölkerungsgruppen und das Kleingewerbe fördern, die auf der Nutzung lokaler Ressourcen basieren und mit den sozialen, kulturellen, ökologischen und wirtschaftlichen Gegebenheiten einer Region in Einklang stehen und
b) die Zusammenarbeit und den Erfahrungsaustausch der Mitgliedsorganisationen zu intensivieren und dabei die Partner besonders einzubeziehen.
http://www.ruralstudio.com
-----------
The student joins a poverty-stricken region and “shares the sweat” with a housing client who lives far below the poverty level. The goal of this exercise is to refine the student’s social conscience and to learn first-hand the necessary social, cultural and technological concepts of designing and building.
http://www.ceve.org.ar
-----------
CEVE (Centro Experimental de la Vivienda Económica) ist eine regierungsunabhängige professionelle Vereinigung und Mitglied von AVE (Asociación de Vivienda Económica) in Argentinien. Seine Ziele sind die Verbreitung von Niedrigkostenwohnungsbau und die Schaffung von neuen Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten durch Forschung und Entwicklung, Training und Technologietransfer.
http://www.earthcouncilalliance.org
-----------
Earth Council Alliance (ECA) supports Earth Councils and other people and organizations committed to sustainability initiatives and preserving the world for today’s peoples and future generations. As an international organization, we are a non-government organization (NGO) incorporated in Switzerland.
http://www.fakt-consult.de
-----------
Rural development and agriculture, food technology, water supply & sanitation, energy for rural development; small and mediumscale enterprise development and employment generation, vocational training; organisational development and project management.
http://www.barefootcollege.org/
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For more than thirty years,the Barefoot College has been working to improve the quality of life of the rural poor.
