Memo+19+Core+Categories+(Dan+F)


 * Appropriate/context specific technology design and transfer-** This refers to attempts to find a fair middle ground to prevent resource drain or external resource dependence when entering into arrangements and interactions with countries or external parties. Currently either dependency is bread or everything falls into disrepair and become a one-time-only transfer. Protectionism can be dangerous at this point and is not the solution. Some middle ground has to be taken in between that does not encourage solutions for the sake of solving a problem a group supposedly has. Only the target group should have the power to decide what is really needed. When those needs are defined by western capitalist ideals it is extremely problematic because, although it is desirable, it is only made artificially practical by the current global system. Evidence of this lies in the fact that targeted groups do not have the resources to accomplish what the global market can when it comes to a practical product system. The appropriate technology movement may need to be re-conceptualized.


 * Practical evolution-** Lack of infrastructure is often sited as a reason that development projects fail. Injecting a technology with no support system and small resource reserves asks for failure. If you can’t build and use a technology in a region than it doesn’t really make sense to have that technology there because the second it falls into disrepair there is no help for it. Stages of development can’t be skipped without breeding extreme dependency on outsiders. It’s like a butterfly fighting to get out of its cocoon; if you help it, it will die. It needs to develop the strength it self so that it can live on its own. When what are considered the most developed countries in the world were built there were not more developed countries coming in and trying to inject technologies for free. It makes no sense for more developed countries to be doing that now. America’s industry was not built by foreign “development” charity. Sure it was built with foreign ideas but those ideas were imported by individuals who had vision within the country (and outsiders who moved to the country to make their visions a reality). Without having the building blocks and foundation to build and maintain a technology there is no hope in getting a technology adopted. It should not be up to outsiders how this occurs. It has to be up to the local people in question.


 * Global Governance (much like the first core category but much more encompassing)-** There needs to be a global regulation of proper interactions beyond free trade to protect people in the same way that governments protect their people from the failures in national (more local) economies