ATDT New Project Questionaires
The EWB-SFP Appropriate Technology Design Team (ATDT) is still just getting started, so nothing is "final", but already there are two questionaires ready for groups/people to fill out to propose a project for the ATDT to consider. A "project" is some carefully considered design project need that an organization (either "inside" EWB-SWP or "outside" EWB-SFP) requires to make progress in helping people employ appropriate technology (AT). If a project meets basic ATDT/EWB-SFP requirements then the ATDT will start the process of trying to marshal EWB-SFP's engineers to consider it and help out.
Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that an accepted project will recieve EWB-SFP help - after the ATDT gives it the thumbs up the proposed project may still have problems meeting EWB-SFP needs (such as for financing, organization, or engineering requirements) or EWB-SFP may not be able to find the appropriate resources/engineers to help out. But the questionaires start the process!
For the moment, we don't have a web based method for downloading the inside and outside questionaires (does anyone know how to post Word documents so that they can be downloaded from a blog like this?), but for now you can contact csellers42@yahoo.com to get either one, and/or get a copy of a sample completed form. Your completed questionaire helps us quickly evaluate your need and and our ability to meet it - if your project looks like something that EWB-SFP can help out with, we'll ask you to make a short presentation to us so that we can get a more details. Not every project's needs can be met by a small local organization like EBW-SFP (because this is a young effort, locally based projects may be initially preferred), so we appreciate your understanding if we cannot help you immediately.
Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that an accepted project will recieve EWB-SFP help - after the ATDT gives it the thumbs up the proposed project may still have problems meeting EWB-SFP needs (such as for financing, organization, or engineering requirements) or EWB-SFP may not be able to find the appropriate resources/engineers to help out. But the questionaires start the process!
For the moment, we don't have a web based method for downloading the inside and outside questionaires (does anyone know how to post Word documents so that they can be downloaded from a blog like this?), but for now you can contact csellers42@yahoo.com to get either one, and/or get a copy of a sample completed form. Your completed questionaire helps us quickly evaluate your need and and our ability to meet it - if your project looks like something that EWB-SFP can help out with, we'll ask you to make a short presentation to us so that we can get a more details. Not every project's needs can be met by a small local organization like EBW-SFP (because this is a young effort, locally based projects may be initially preferred), so we appreciate your understanding if we cannot help you immediately.
posted by Charlie at 8:34 PM
1 Comments:
Isn't designing appropriate technology of secondary importance to building local capacity to innovate technological solutions to local problems?
I just get tired of these types of programs because they seem to focus on designing solutions to problems that local NGO's understand better than western engineering students.
What is your position on these issues?
- SL
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