This section provides links to various practical technologies
and approaches that will help to bootstrap developing
economies. (See the editorial
on productivity and developing countries.)
The
Multifunctional Platform for Poverty Alleviation
- diesel motor on a platform with optional accessories,
e.g. a grinder for peanuts, provides low cost ways
to vastly increase production for small villages.
Nepal
Ghatta Project - transform simple water mills
into battery charging stations
Remote Sensing
- RS imagery and data offer important benefits
to poor countries in many ways such as in the
monitoring of resources - water distribution,
forest cover, land use, etc. They've even been
used to monitor insect infestations and conditions
conducive to diseases such as sleeping sickness
spread by the tsetse fly .
