appropriate technology

technology that is suitable to the social and economic conditions of the geographic area in which it is to be applied, is environmentally sound, and promotes self-sufficiency on the part of those using it
Event social_movement Q537823
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appropriate technology

Summary

appropriate technology is a social movement[1]. It draws 44 Wikipedia views per month (social_movement category, ranking #154 of 360).[2]

Key Facts

  • appropriate technology's instance of is recorded as social movement[3].
  • appropriate technology's instance of is recorded as type of technology[4].
  • appropriate technology's subclass of is recorded as technology[5].
  • appropriate technology's Commons category is recorded as Appropriate technology[6].
  • appropriate technology's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D000067568[7].
  • appropriate technology's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01b1hm[8].
  • appropriate technology's MeSH tree code is recorded as J01.897.052[9].
  • appropriate technology's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Appropriate technology[10].
  • appropriate technology's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300068595[11].
  • appropriate technology's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[12].
  • appropriate technology's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/intermediate-technology[13].
  • appropriate technology's Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as Appropriate Technology[14].
  • appropriate technology's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as appropriate-technology[15].
  • appropriate technology's STW Thesaurus for Economics ID is recorded as 10487-3[16].
  • appropriate technology's UNESCO Thesaurus ID is recorded as concept2596[17].
  • appropriate technology's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 91700[18].
  • appropriate technology's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 528615729[19].
  • appropriate technology's UNBIS Thesaurus ID is recorded as 1000346[20].
  • appropriate technology's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C528615729[21].
  • appropriate technology's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as uupcn97j[22].

Why It Matters

appropriate technology draws 44 Wikipedia views per month (social_movement category, ranking #154 of 360).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . pachamama.org. pachamama.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_appropriate-technology_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{appropriate technology}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/appropriate-technology}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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