Book Review: Régnier, P., Frey, D., Pierre, S., Varghese, K., & Wild, P. (Eds.), Handbook of Innovation and Appropriate Technologies for International Development

Abstract

With the evolution and involvement of technology in almost every aspect of society, it has become a prevailing notion that the true measure of a society’s progress is decided by how it adapts and implements the technology for its upliftment. While the developed nations may have easy and early access to the latest and most advanced technology for its deployment, the developing countries face challenges in accessing the same because of several resources and finance-based constraints, which lead them to look forward to various low-cost technologies based on localised solutions (termed in literature with the several names, such as adaptive tech, capital saving tech, community tech, indigenous tech, intermediary tech, low-cost tech or appropriate tech) to make a development path in favour of local communities. Not only developing countries are utilising such technologies, but developed countries are also getting benefitted from them more and are more and more often designated as frugal innovations for sustainable development.