Technological solution for vulnerable communities: Questioning the sustainability of Appropriate Technology

2nd International Conference on Geological, Geographical, Aerospace and Earth Sciences 2014

Sianipar, C.P.M.^1,2 ; Dowaki, K.^1 ; Yudoko, G.^2

Department of Industrial Administration (IA), Tokyo University of Science (TUS), 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba-ken

278-8510, Japan^1

School of Business and Management (SBM), Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Jl. Ganeca 10, West Java, Bandung

40132, Indonesia^2

关键词: Appropriate technologies;    Flexible construction;    Qualitative research;    Scientific discourse;    Technological solution;    Technology development;    Typical development;    Vulnerable communities;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/23/1/012008/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/23/1/012008

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Vulnerability eradication has become an emerging concern in today's society following the increasing uncertainties in achieving societal resilience, particularly in vulnerable communities. Furthermore, incorporating technological solution, especially appropriate technology (AT), into such concern requires interdisciplinary understandings to achieve a holistic eradication based on the particularities of each community. This study aims to briefly reveal existing scholarly discourses and investigate potential gap(s) between previous researches. Literatures, particularly consisting meta-analysis on previous scholarly discussions, are surveyed. The findings reveal three progress among scientific discourses. The first one is the paradigm shift of developmental purposes from typical development to empowerment. Next, concerns in technology development indicate the parallel movement toward empowerment. Then, previous methodological developments, including approach in sustaining AT, indicate the needs to assess the future based on sustainability. Therefore, a new research is proposed to develop an assessment framework on AT for vulnerability eradication on the basis of empowerment paradigm, extended focuses in technology development, and extended coverage of future changes in dynamic matter. The framework needs to be developed based on the combination of positivist-deductive-qualitative research paradigms. This is intended to generalize the framework for being used in different cases, to build an applicative framework as an integral part of existing body of knowledge, and to develop an enriched and flexible construction of framework. Looking at existing researches, this brief study proposes insights to move scientific progress toward a more holistic vulnerability eradication using AT solution both in conceptual and practical levels.