HOWTOPEDIA

HOWTOPEDIA is a diffusion platform of practical knowledge and simple technologies, i.e. technologies that require no complex machine, that are easily explainable and usable by individuals or small communities.

HOWTOPEDIA encourages the collaboration and knowledge transfer between organizations and individuals across borders.

HOWTOPEDIA helps small scale sustainable development by facilitating the dissemination of appropriate technology and stimulating the use or the discovery of local ressources.

Internet is a powerful media, which more and more people are aware of as an inestimable source of information. The specific resource for development aid is increasing constantly, for the best but also for the worse: Their multiplication makes it impossible to use with short connection times and little internet skills.

The Howtopedia project needs you to gather practical knowledge and simple technologies, And www.howtopedia.org will become a major reference as a diffusion platform for empowerment tools and appropriate technologies.

Based on a Wikimedia interface, www.howtopedia.org is highly collaborative and allows anybody who logs-in to edit the content online by using the edit button and a few syntax rules. It is very flexible and even allows you to start an howtopedia in your own language.

www.howtopedia.org will exist as soon as we will start sharing our knowledge. An announcement will be sent to more than 5000 organisations and people concerned with knowledge sharing issues or with appropriate technologies.

At this very moment, www.howtopedia.org has 269 articles. Consider taking part to this ambitious collaborative project: Start contributing with an article!

IMPORTANT: Remember: the information that you put on howtopedia has to be FREE OF RIGHTS. Don’t copy any information without the explicit agreement of the author.