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In this PC World/IDG News Service column, Ken Banks reflects on E. F. Schumacher’s 1973 book “Small Is Beautiful” and the appropriate-technology movement it inspired, applying its lessons to mobile phones in development and contrasting them with failed top-down technology-transfer projects, such as donated tractors left to rust in Zambia for lack of local repair capacity.
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Ken Banks