The Art of Facilitating Participatory Technology Development
This paper, written in one day, reflects the author's personal experience of facilitating participatory technology development (PTD), focusing on a case study in India. The objectives of PTD are defined as to improve the capability of a farming community (i) to develop appropriate agricultural technology, (ii) to define their problems, (iii) to identify alternative solutions, (iv) to systematically test alternative solutions (designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating tests).