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Name: Chris Watkins
Location: No fixed address. Currently Sydney, Australia.
Desire for career & mortgage: None

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en-∞This user speaks English at a godlike level.
id-4Pengguna ini mampu bersumbangsih dengan bahasa Indonesia mendekati penutur ibu.
en-sg-2This user's Singlish not very good lah.
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putting myself in boxes:
MEngThis user has a Master of Engineering degree.
UNSWThis user is a student or graduate of the University of New South Wales.

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Interesting...

pages

  • Kamal Kar - critic of standard approaches to development & aid.
  • Cicisbeo - 18th Century Italian women had surprising freedoms.
  • User:Ihcoyc has a very amusing section of Favourite quotes from the Misplaced Pages.

bits from Misplaced Pages

During the May 1998 Revolution, when calls for political reform or reformasi in Indonesia led to the resignation of President Suharto, Malaysian satirists Instant Cafe lampooned a government broadcast in which 'Malaysians are reminded that reformasi is an Indonesian word, which has no equivalent in Bahasa Melayu.' (Differences between Malay and Indonesian)

From elsewhere:

Javanese poetry (the translation needs some work though...):

hana caraka
data sawala
padha jayanya
maga bathanga

their warriors
had animosity
equally glorious
both corpse

Wikis other than Misplaced Pages

  • Wikocracy - what happens when everyone can write and revise the law?

What I do on Misplaced Pages

Read why I'm enthusiastic about Misplaced Pages.

I accept that I won't agree with everything I see done in Misplaced Pages. But one thing that I don't like is excessive linking. Links should be relevant to the context. E.g. dates shouldn't always be linked - see Misplaced Pages:Dates.


My areas of interest

My key links: Appropriate technology · My scratchpad · My notes on Appropriate technology · experimental Wikicity · My pending tasks

Handy links: Your complete watchlist · Cleanup resources · Guide to layout · Stub types · How to write a great article · Misplaced Pages:How to edit a page

My personal page describes where I am now and what I'm up to.

Something cool about Misplaced Pages

When English speakers see the words "" we probably think: cool, it's free, I don't have to pay. I realised that there more to it when using the . For "free" it didn't use the word gratis (no cost), but rather bebas (as in free from restrictions). Actually, both meanings are true of Misplaced Pages.

Translating

Sometime in 2006 I want to initiate some translations from English into Indonesian for the Indonesian Misplaced Pages, focusing on articles that I think are very relevant to Indonesian development, such as Appropriate technology-related articles and Hernando de Soto (economist). I'd like to see the same articles edited for the Simple English Misplaced Pages], and I'll make a start on these sometime in 2006, I expect.

Edit this user page... or steal this code!

Please! Make it pretty, make it readable, fix the formatting... or steal the code for your own page (and check User:Cool Cat's page - that's where I got a lot of my ideas). Don't vandalize, but have fun! A list of Web colors may help, plus userboxes.

One caution if you copy the boxes where someone can click to add a message or send an email: be sure to edit the code so that it refers to your username - not mine!


Picture of the day KiMo Theater KiMo Theater is a theater and historic landmark located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the northeast corner of Central Avenue and Fifth Street. It was built in 1927 in the extravagant Pueblo Deco architecture, which is a blend of adobe-style Pueblo Revival building styles (rounded corners and edges), decorative motifs from indigenous cultures, and the soaring lines and linear repetition found in American Art Deco architecture. The name Kimo, meaning 'mountain lion', was suggested by Pablo Abeita in a competition sponsored by the Albuquerque Journal. The theater opened on September 19, 1927, with a program including Native American dancers and singers, a performance on the newly installed $18,000 Wurlitzer theater organ, and the comedy film Painting the Town. According to local legend, the KiMo Theatre is haunted by the ghost of Bobby Darnall, a six-year-old boy killed in 1951 when a water heater in the theater's lobby exploded. The tale alleges that a theatrical performance of A Christmas Carol in 1974 was disrupted by the ghost, who was supposedly angry that the staff was ordered to remove donuts they had hung on backstage pipes to appease him. This photograph shows the facade of the KiMo Theater, seen from across Central Avenue.Photograph credit: Daniel Schwen Archive – More featured pictures... Misplaced Pages editor
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http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Muehle_Marzahn2.JPG - make tiny version and edit userboxes.

google scholar for Plasmodium wormwood

Small jobs, do soon

Promo for WPID

  • am now starting to contact organizations (e.g. these ones):
    • to let them know about the resource
    • to ask them to put it in their newsletters
    • to let them know that it is easy to edit Misplaced Pages, that if they do want to share their expertise, that would be great
    • to let them know that if they don't want to get into editing, they are still very welcome to post suggestions or feedback on the Wikiproject talk page
    • to suggest that reading and working on articles in Misplaced Pages is a great way for students to learn, and a great way for development volunteers to prepare for a placement
  • we can contact relevant experts to ask for suggestions on resources and feedback on articles (at the same time ensuring that they know about Misplaced Pages's articles in their topic area)
  • we can post a brief notice on development-oriented discussion lists
  • I have added a section on translating to the project page - and as I travel in Asia I will be on the lookout for keen people to help (partly through my contact with local NGO's and development professionals).


Things to do when I have time (a lot of time, on broadband internet)

Links for research

Misc stuff to check

http://awombofherown.blogspot.com/2006/03/in-neocolonial-err-i-mean.html

More suitable for personal reading

Look up these books in library

  • Paper Heroes: Appropriate Technology : Panacea or Pipe Dream? - Witold Rybczynski
  • check catalog, then this biblio
==== Appropriate technology ====

A.T. general research:

as a Social Movement]

The term came into use during the 1973 energy crisis and the environmental movement of the 1970s.
It is often used to describe technologies, like wind power, that provide an alternative to fossil fuels. Also, it is sometimes used to describe things like the telephone, radio and television that can reduce the need for travel or replace print. {-> sustainable tech?) Such usage is controversial, as, very often, windmills or electronics may rely on very high technology elsewhere. It is usually only "appropriate" to use technologies that can at least be locally repaired. Which technologies are truly "appropriate" remains a matter of ongoing debate among those that have pioneered the concept.
The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada has a Centre for Appropriate Technology. (doesn't seem to) It has adapted tools of nearby Mennonite communities to direct use in developing nations.
His group at LSHTM has studied the health impact of environmental interventions such as water supply, sanitation and mosquito control, and of operational and policy aspects of water supply, low-cost sanitation, surface water drainage, and solid waste management. He is technical director of WELL, a resource centre providing technical advice on water and environmental health to the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and other agencies. He is also an editor of Tropical Medicine & International Health, and a trustee of WaterAid.

Teaching

Tropical Environmental Health, as well as contributing to a number of other courses and study units on topics such as water & sanitation, PHC and Guinea worm eradication, hygiene promotion, monitoring the coverage of water supplies, sanitation and hygiene, wastewater irrigation and other related topics.

Re stoves: Dung cleanly indoors (to avoid the health problems)? The Pellet stove looks like a promising idea and has been listed on the Appropriate technology page but it appears to be a device suitable for developed societies. http://www.tve.org/ho/doc.cfm?aid=1498&lang=English or google on "improved wood burning stove" Also: study in progress

  • Check this, from worldchanging.com:

I always thought that we could harnass the power of fitness gyms. i wonder if it gyms could at least be energy self sufficient?

http://www.nonsensical.com/work/portfolio/power.html Posted by: adrian cotter at March 8, 2004 11:03 AM

I totally love this idea.

The World Bank's up to some interesting stuff:

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000247.html Posted by: Alex at March 8, 2004 11:15 AM

Great idea. I just wish the proper people were credited for it. The earliest I've heard of it was in the 70's at a place in Eastern Columbia called Gaviotas. Read the book of the same name, it's inspiring. Posted by: Kevin at March 8, 2004 07:40 PM

Kevin - That's interesting. I have read Gaviotas, but Social Design Notes' Aug 03 post about it reminded me about their policy against patenting inventions, preferring to share their designs freely (he also lists other inventions developed at the site). This may account for any failure to credit the designer. http://www.backspace.com/notes/2003/08/09/x.html

Victor Papanek, who worked for UNESCO, famously held a similar policy, and his work was copied for years. His approach had to do with making useful designs available to the largest possible population in the developing world.

DemoTech (based in the Netherlands) seems to work on similar principles: http://www.demotech.org/ Posted by: Dawn Danby at March 8, 2004 08:06 PM


*merge Zeer pot

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Water

Water

  1. Filter (water)
  2. Rapid sand filter
  3. Media filter
Management issues

Wastewater

Wastewater

Sustainability

Sustainability & category - links to AT?

  1. concrete with magnesium compound...?
  2. Water-saving device
  3. Composting toilet
  4. Renewable energy: Category:Renewable energy as subcategory.

Development

International development

  • articles for International development stub, {{intdev-stub}}:
  1. Kamal Kar - google "Kamal Kar" ngo OR ngos OR ngo's
  2. Akhtar Hameed Khan
  3. Development as Freedom

Urban planning & housing

Urban planning & housing

Learn about Misplaced Pages:

Wikimania 2006 is planned for August 4-8, 2006.

Wikimania, (http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/Main_Page & http://meta.wikimedia.org/Wikimania_2006)


Misc useful links

http://www.wisegeek.com

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