Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The access of people living in poverty to technology derives from the right to
benefit from scientific progress (scientific knowledge and resources) with which
to address their basic human needs.
Basic human needs include, particularly, such areas as water supply and
sanitation, food production and processing, housing, energy, transportation,
communication, income generation, employment and enterprise creation. Much of
the knowledge required to address these needs relates to technology. Access to
technology and scientific progress to address basic needs is therefore a basic
human right.
Engineering and technology need to be appropriate to the context of people living
in poverty in terms of the social, economic, educational and knowledge situations.
Engineering and technology can then enable poor people to alleviate their own
poverty and promote sustainable livelihood development. People living in poverty
are often more exposed to emergencies, natural and man-made disasters, and there
is an important role for engineering and technology in emergency and disaster
preparedness, mitigation and response.
The World has never been as technologically developed as it is today and the
resources available, it becomes an ethical imperative to make the access of
Fundraising