Engineering Difference between indigenous technology and appropriate technology?

[shivajikobardan]

Homework Statement

Difference between indigenous technology and appropriate technology?

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What are the differences between appropriate and indigenous technology. I know about appropriate technology. It is basically something that is made using local resources, using the concept "small is beautiful". And generally pollution free, environmental free stuffs that might not be as efficient as other products. But understandable to uneducated locals for maintainence and operation and controlling. And I guess indigenous technology is something similar. What are the differences that make them distinct?

 

[Mark44]

Homework Statement:: Difference between indigenous technology and appropriate technology?
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What are the differences between appropriate and indigenous technology. I know about appropriate technology. It is basically something that is made using local resources, using the concept "small is beautiful". And generally pollution free, environmental free stuffs that might not be as efficient as other products. But understandable to uneducated locals for maintainence and operation and controlling. And I guess indigenous technology is something similar. What are the differences that make them distinct?

Don't your textbook or learning materials define these terms? If so, including them here would go a long way toward helping us come up with examples and differences of these terms.

 

[berkeman]

Yeah, I'm not familiar with either of those terms.

 

[shivajikobardan]

Don't your textbook or learning materials define these terms? If so, including them here would go a long way toward helping us come up with examples and differences of these terms.

Yeah that's the whole problem. We don't have textbooks for lots of our courses except those that are taught in India and other European Countries and American countries.
I am using resources from here-:

https://bctengineeringnotes.blogspot.com/2021/01/energy-environment-and-society-ees.html



I am following this google drive resources. But it has only definitions about appropriate technology in chapter 1. Not of indigenous technology.

 

[Tom.G]

Appropriate technology is an ideological movement... originally articulated (defined) by <an> economist...
(As defined on page 6 of the paper you included in your post #4, above.)

Indigenous is: originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native
(found as the first result of this Google search:
https://www.google.com/search?&q=define:indigenous

 

[shivajikobardan]

Appropriate technology is an ideological movement... originally articulated (defined) by <an> economist...
(As defined on page 6 of the paper you included in your post #4, above.)

Indigenous is: originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native
(found as the first result of this Google search:
https://www.google.com/search?&q=define:indigenous

hmm yeah I feel like there is much overlapping between them than difference. so I'm asking if anyone knows the distinction between them. I feel like all indigenous technology are appropriate technology but all appropritate technology aren't indigenous technology.

 

[Tom.G]

I think the difference is only an idealogical one, as stated in the definitions!

If you need a definition of idealogical, it can be found here:
https://www.google.com/search?&q=define+idealogical

 

[DaveC426913]

A quick Google "define Indigenous Tech" yields that it is ...

"... used by the native inhabitants of a country or region and it constitutes an important part of its cultural heritage. Characteristically, indigenous technologies are recognized as animate, imbued with the breath of life and they live in form and function."

Which is virtually orthogonal to Appropriate Tech.

Here's an article:
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-6165-0_367-2?noAccess=true

 

[JesseProbst]

I can give examples of each one: so indigenous is used by the native inhabitants of a region, it is a part of its cultural heritage, for example - electromagnetic monitors or imaging systems such as CT or MRI scans. An example of appropriate technology would be a passive solar building design or self-contained solar lamp.

 

[DaveC426913]

Sorry, would you mind providing an example of some native inhabitants who have "electromagnetic monitors or imaging systems such as CT or MRI scans" as part of their cultural heritage?

 

[JesseProbst]

It's a possible part of; cultures are different

 

[DaveC426913]

I'd say it behooves you to familiarize your self with the terms culture and heritage.

 

[berkeman]

I'd say it behooves you to familiarize your self with the terms culture and heritage.

FYI -- Jesse is on a temporary vacation from PF, and has been thread banned from this thread.