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More Joy Per Person
What type of target should Demotech's design iniatives serve? In a wide choice of ideologies available, Demotech creates a new one: We go for 'More Joy Per Person'.
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Open Source design
Overtake environmental decline by environmental improvement by the intens collaboration on Internet of dedicated people in the re-design of technologies.
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Democracy Sustaining Technology
Redesign technology to become a mayor tool and method to enhance Democracy offering equal opportunities to all.
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Learning from Poverty
Deep Poverty indicates the failure of modern ecomomy as well as how modern economy can be organized in a sustainable and more satisfying way.
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Sustainability Now!
Sustainability is a prerogrative for future economic and thereby social stability. Demotech design initiatives show how full sustainability for many products can be achieved.
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Fast Learning
To achieve Sustainability in time, that is before utter dispair in poverty and utter disinterest from wealthy consumers turns this worls into a radical facist 1984-like culture, we have to learn to LEARN FAST.
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Shared Innovation
To speed up innovation on behalf of sustainability, innovation should be a shared effort, because of the fun of it, the effectiveness of it if done well and the comfort of lack of intellectual ownership. But how to promote it?
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Home Work
Change homework from low wage left-over bits industrial work into a sustainable and self-reliant effective mode of production, Do so by offering Open Source production info. Where needed: offer tool sets and training.
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Peace Studies
Appropriate Technology is regarded by many in the field of Peace or Conflict studies regarded as a valuable tool. This page links such studies to Demotech design initiatives and theory.
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Initial Designs
First ideas on a new design initiative should be well written down. They are like dreams, very easely forgotten!
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Gender & Appropriate Technology
Technology can only be called "Appropriate", if it is appropriate for women. Design should be directed at women's empowerment.
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Constructing the Demotech website
Considerations and toolbox for working on this website. Support remote cooperation in contributing and editing for this website possible
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SCOT in Action
The perspective of SCOT is that technological change is not a simple matter of good inventions but emerge because of social needs. A SCOT analysis explains success and failure of technological artifacts by means of social factors.
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Communicating Demotech
What Demotech is about needs to be communicated to a wider public. Suggestions for PR as presented here need to be workded on.
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