Posting From Guatemala
We arrived in Guatemala Sat. Feb 21st. The University of Michigan BLUELab team was held up in Miami overnight so we arranged to pick them up directly from the Guatemala City Airport on Sunday and head directly to Quetzaltenango (Xela, pronounced Shay-la, to the locals). The BLUELab has designed a very efficient and low cost [...]
Appropriate Technology News
John Barrie + Low Cost LED Light The Ann Arbor News had a nice article about the Appropriate Technology Collaborative on Sunday, Dec 16th. ATC is a new tech firm working on creating affordable technologies that solve problems for the 2.1 billion people who live on less than $2.00 per day. From the Ann Arbor [...]
First Post
Appropriate Technology Design (ATDesign) creates new technologies for people who live at the bottom of the economic pyramid. We work with our clients, the people who will use our technologies, to insure that what we design really helps those who need it. We form collaborative teams with end users, engineers and architects from around the [...]