[Stoves] Fan assisted stoves in Nepal

[simonandzoe at freesurf.ch]

I agree entirely, and CRT I know involve villagers in development of their
technology.

But there is a difference between supplying stoves to one or two villages,
which is essential for feedback and refinement, and actually putting something
on the market. Especially when the market is desperate for products to sell
and the essential components of your design get lost in the copying which
inevitably happens here.



>-- Originalnachricht --
>From: Richard Stanley <rstanley at legacyfound.org>
>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:22:19 -0800
>To: Simon and Zoe <simonandzoe at yakpost.net>,
>        Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
>Subject: Re: [Stoves] Fan assisted stoves in Nepal
>Reply-To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
>
>
>  Simon et. al,
>
>Lest we fall into the classic trap of assuming that our ideas are  
>Thee source for improved stoves, let me suggest another model of  
>dissemination: Give out the stove early and let it evolve with the  
>input of the actual user, actively sought and actively  
>communicated...This appears a novel concept eh?  I mean involving the  
>user as the development of their own appliance....
>
>Or can we really trust that they are capable, they are after all only  
>illiterate villagers ...
>or...?
>
>Now lest I be taken literally, almost every real innovation, whether  
>originated here in our own American bushland or in the real world,   
>evolves out of someone's experimentation on the ground. It is not  
>about sealing up our technology amongst our group in our conferences  
>and workshops to then be "given" to the villager. It is about finding  
>ways to include them in the process of development, to utilise their  
>experience up front, while we are still learning ourselves (if, that  
>is,  we are humble enough  to admit that they might know something we  
>do not know).
>Only then, should we be building the empirical model and publishing  
>it for others . And even at that, the dissemination process requires  
>a certain humility to accept that our ideas  will continue to evolve  
>and be adapted and will teach us something in the process.
>
>Richard  Stanley
>
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