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Appropriate Technology-Concepts and Definitions:
The term 'Appropriate technology' represents a number of things at a time. It can be A technique or a package of techniques or a process and a product. Appropriate Technology may be sometimes "considered a social movement and a collection of Hardware (such as machines, products, infrastructures-roads, water distribution System) and design alternatives presumably responsive to the ideology of that Movement."*' Jaquier (1976) has of the view that it goes beyond the hardware and Includes such immaterial things as knowledge, know-how, experience, education and Organisational forms.30 Innumerable definitions are available for appropriate technology and each definition Represents different facets of appropriate technology. Some are given below. According to Jequier and Gerard (1993), "Appropriate Technology (AT) is now Recognized as the generic term for a wide range of technologies characterized by any One or several of the following features:
(I) low investment cost per work place;
(ii) Low capital investment per unit of output;
(iii) organisational simplicity;
(IV) high Adaptability to a particular social cultural environment,
(v) sparing use of natural Resources;
(vi) low cost of final product or high potential for employment.""
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