ABSTRACT
Technology has long been recognized as playing an important role in human development. Its destructive nature has also been well documented. British economist E. F. Schumacher founded an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) now called Practical Action to promote the use and adoption of “intermediate technologies”1 to reduce poverty in the world. It is now thirty-eight years since the publication of Schumacher’s seminal work, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Despite the best efforts of many people, poverty is still widespread and many poor people do not have access to the appropriate technologies that could help them.
