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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.  
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Our vision is that each individual should have at his reach tools and information for empowerment.<br>
  
HOWTOPEDIA helps small scale sustainable development by facilitating the dissemination of appropriate technology and stimulating the use or the discovery of local ressources.  
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'''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. <br>
  
  
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'''howtopedia''' promotes the collaboration and knowledge transfer between organizations and individuals across borders and helps small scale sustainable development by facilitating the dissemination of appropriate technology and stimulating the use or the discovery of local ressources. <br>
  
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.
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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, but there is a need for a one-stop information place addressed to the broad public. Our objective is to become the reference for people looking for resources for empowerment. <br>
  
The Howtopedia project needs you to gather practical knowledge and simple technologies,
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'''howtopedia''' collects, translates and centralises practical knowledge and simple technologies with the goal to foster the diffusion of know-how towards individuals and communities, making information accessible in local languages and communicating actively about the availability of this collection.<br>
And www.howtopedia.org will become a major reference as a diffusion platform for empowerment tools and appropriate technologies.
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The content is protected and we actively build a community of experts publishing information on the website. This guarantees the quality, the follow-up as well as the link to the relevant contacts. <br>
  
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.
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At this very moment, www.howtopedia.org has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles.<br>
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Consider taking part to this ambitious collaborative project:contact us : '''info -at- howtopedia.org''' <br>
  
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.
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// howtopedia //
 
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Kyburgstrasse //
At this very moment, www.howtopedia.org has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles.
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CH-8037 Zurich //
Consider taking part to this ambitious collaborative project:
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Switzerland //
[[empty page|Start contributing with an article!]]
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00 41 44 55 89 809 //
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 

Revision as of 10:11, 10 June 2009

Our vision is that each individual should have at his reach tools and information for empowerment.

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 promotes the collaboration and knowledge transfer between organizations and individuals across borders and 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, but there is a need for a one-stop information place addressed to the broad public. Our objective is to become the reference for people looking for resources for empowerment.

howtopedia collects, translates and centralises practical knowledge and simple technologies with the goal to foster the diffusion of know-how towards individuals and communities, making information accessible in local languages and communicating actively about the availability of this collection.
The content is protected and we actively build a community of experts publishing information on the website. This guarantees the quality, the follow-up as well as the link to the relevant contacts.

At this very moment, www.howtopedia.org has 269 articles.
Consider taking part to this ambitious collaborative project:contact us : info -at- howtopedia.org

// howtopedia // Kyburgstrasse // CH-8037 Zurich // Switzerland // 00 41 44 55 89 809 //