Appropedia
| Founded | 2007 (501c3 status) |
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| Founder | Lonny Grafman, Chris Watkins, Curt Beckmann, Catherine Laine, Andrew Lamb |
| Focus | Rural and Indigenous Communities |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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| Method | Appropriate technology and sustainable development |
| Website | appropedia.org |
Appropedia is a website for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development, with a particular focus on appropriate technology. Appropedia has been used by a number of nonprofit organizations and individuals working in sustainable development, including and the .
Appropedia runs on the software . Currently it houses over 7,000 articles and has received more than 26,000 uploaded files (11 August 2015).
Since then Appropedia has imported content from other sites:
Papers and books that have used information from Appropedia as source material include:
Appropedia has also been used by proponents of open source appropriate technology such as Prof. Joshua Pearce in service learning, including in language education and engineering education.
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