ABSTRACT
This chapter examines models for screening and transferring technology and reviewing practice principles and prospects for achieving a more concerted social work approach to the technology transfer and integrated social development. Technology of various kinds, particularly the aforementioned alternative or appropriate technology, is integral to sound social development of organizations, communities and societies. International, cross-cultural transfer of the social work practice methodology has been a reflection of widespread experiences of technology transfers in general that have had scant relevance to the needs of the poor. At minimum, the process of analyzing appropriateness of the technology, and its development and transfer, requires an ability to make sensitive use of an analytic three-level framework. The three levels are an understanding of the dynamic interplay of individual carriers and receivers of technology, the structure of the receiving social system, and the technology itself.
