A new journal article entitled “Community empowerment through Appropriate Technology: Sustaining the sustainable development” has been officially published in Procedia Environmental Sciences, volume 17, pages 1007-1016. Procedia Environmental Sciences (Procedia. Environ. Sci.) is published by Elsevier B.V., one of the world’s biggest international publishers headquartered in Netherland. The guest editors for this issue are Dr. Nuki A. Utama, Benjamin C. McLellan, Dr. Hagus Tarno, Dr. Suharman Hamzah, Dr. Arif Bramantoro, Dr. Apip, and Dr. Agus Trihartono. The article is released based on Open-Access scheme, meaning that it is publicly available for free download. Below are the full citation format and abstract.
Official Citation
Sianipar, C.P.M., Yudoko, G., Adhiutama, A., Dowaki, K. (2013). Community empowerment through Appropriate Technology: Sustaining the sustainable development. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 17, 1007-1016.
Abstract
Rural communities are the major entities in developing and third-world countries. While outsiders want to develop local community, they should develop the local conditions and sustain the result. In order to get sustainability among rural communities, technology become a booster to reach it. However, the success rate of many community development projects result only compare between “before” and “after” condition of technology implementation. Furthermore, when its result reaches sustainable condition of community development, many communities cannot further maintain as well as develop their sustainable development because low level of empowerment. This paper attempts to develop conceptual framework how to reach the sustainable development in a community which is strengthened through the implementation of appropriate technology in order to reach empowerment. The framework will be constructed through literature survey and then combined with several sample cases to provide a comprehensive discussion. This paper concludes that empowerment is the next shape of sustainable development. Three stages of community development are revealed. Appropriate technology can be positioned as the bridging point in reaching empowerment of rural communities. By looking at previous efforts which treat sustainable development as the final purpose of community development projects, this paper give new lights how to reach beyond it. Empowering rural communities, sustaining their sustainable development.
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