Technologies for Rural Development

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Technologies for Rural Development

The goal of this project is to create a book or a series of books that could be used to educate children about processes and technologies that can improve the lives of people in poor or disadvantaged communities, while respecting their local environment.

When working on this project, remember that it is aimed at children. It must be simple and easily understood while being quite accurate. Use technical vocabulary when you need to, but don't use big words where simpler language would work.

[edit] Main modules

Wikibook Development Stages
Sparse text	Developing text	Maturing text	Developed text	Comprehensive text:

The modules included are:

1. Title Page
2. Introduction
3. Using water resources
4. Using communication systems
5. Health and hygiene
6. Building houses
7. Ways of farming
8. Dealing with waste
9. Creating energy
10. Building infrastructures
11. Improving transportation

[edit] Major Questions

The points to appear in every module are:

• A summary of the issue or process to be discussed.
• Brief history of the technologies or processes in question.
• Applications of technologies that can be used to drive development.
• Environmental considerations for the technologies or processes.
• Safety and hygiene.
• Diagrams to illustrate the main concepts

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[edit] Formats

[edit] Complete Wikibook

These are all the modules of the Wikibook compiled to form a single page. In the future this could take some time to load, due to the number of diagrams planned for the project.

[edit] PDF Version

To be prepared at a later date.

[edit] Translations

The goal of this project is to inform people and especially children in rural communities of technologies that could improve their way of living.

To achieve that goal translating the text into many languages will be an important. As the document evolves it will be probable that each translation will differ from the original English text, in the early stages of the project that would not matter. However, before a text in a language other than English should be deemed complete, it should coincide with the English text. To achieve this either the text in question or the English text could be updated. In case of dispute the English text would prevail as stated in the GNU license.

[edit] Authors

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