1. D-Lab Fall 2004

2. IAP Trip Details Time commitment… 3 - 28 January Monetary commitment… Living expenses Visa and passport fees Personal commitment… YES!!

3. Intermediate Technology

4. Indigenous Technology Takes about 1 - 3 hours every day to grind grain for their families Costs less than $5 for equipment

5. Industrialized Technology Takes about 10 seconds to grind the grain for a family for one day Costs abut $8,000

6. Intermediate Technology Takes about 1 - 3 minutes to grind the grain for a family for one day Costs abut $500

7. Industrial Technology Produces about 10,000 bricks per day Costs abut $23,000

8. Intermediate Technology Produces about 500 bricks per day Costs abut $375

9. Indigenous Technology

10. Industrialized Technology

11. Intermediate Technology

12. Appropriate Technology

13. What are appropriate technologies? The traditional definition: low in capitol costs uses local materials as much as possible creates jobs small scale can be understood, maintained and repaired locally uses decentralized, renewable energy sources does not involve patents, royalties etc.

14. The Sari Cloth Filter

15. The Pot-in-Pot

16. Whirlwind Wheelchairs

17. Light Up the World: Solid State Lights

18. Grameen Phone

19. A Guiding Principle for AT Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a life time... unless there’s no river nearby!!

20. Fuel from the Fields Project: Charcoal Briquettes

30. Improvements to Press Original Design $100 Requires 3 people to operate Improvements Bracing makes press safer and easier to use Improved process to eject briquettes Throughput increased to 2 briquettes/minute

38. Guiding Principles for D-Lab Identify functional requirements Encourage participatory development Value indigenous knowledge Promote local innovation Strive for sustainability