Dissemination of Appropriate Technologies

Appropriate information-communications technologies for developing countries.

Many of the solutions to global health problems exist, but are not applied. This is called the “know–do” gap: the gap between what is known and what is done in practice.1 However, it is not enough that “someone, somewhere” knows about best practices; it is also essential that the very people who are dealing with health problems know what to do. Ironically, regions of the world with the least re...

Dissemination of healthcare technologies: toward a more informed approach?

Appropriate Accommodations: Speech Technologies and the Needs of Older Adults

Older adults interacting with speech technologies may benefit from a range of communicative accommodations. Potential accommodations include volume, intonation, and sentence structure, to name a few. This paper reviews the literature on human communication with the elderly in search of recommendations for speech interface design. We conclude that spontaneous human behavior cannot easily be take...

Interlocking Stabilised Soil Blocks Appropriate earth technologies in Uganda

Solid Waste Management in the Pacific: Appropriate Technologies

Eff ective management of municipal solid waste (MSW) in Pacifi c developing member countries (DMCs) is diffi cult because of several country-specifi c characteristics. These include limited land area, customary land ownership; environmental fragility; limited human and fi nancial capacity; and in some countries, a heavy reliance on tourism. The challenges mean that selecting technologies that a...