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Appropedia Brings Sustainable Tech Help to Developing Countries

Appropedia Brings Sustainable Tech Help to Developing Countries

From All Africa

Wikipedia-style site that gets people to upload information on sustainable technologies and has received more than 50 million page views since its launch in 2006 is going through a raft of changes aimed at improving it further.

The site, called Appropedia, is built on open-source wiki software and allows information to be shared on technologies that could help improve lives in the developing world.

“We focus on sustainable technologies and how to use them in resource-poor settings,” says Lonny Grafman, founder and president of Appropedia.

As is the case with Wikipedia, anyone can edit Appropedia pages that currently hold close to 6,000 articles on topics including agriculture, energy, water and transport.

Appropedia has also collaborated with the WHO to host a catalogue of medical devices for use in poor countries. The Global Health Medical Device Compendium was developed by students at the University of Michigan, United States.

The catalogue now contains more than 200 medical devices, which can be searched using categories such as a disease name, location and what stage of research and commercialisation the technology is at.

Read more at All Africa