Appropedia

And back in.

That is then, after the fact, documented on Appropedia for others to learn and share and get inspired.

And now I have to apologize future Leah here again because we have some dog noises in the background.

Jamaica has a lot of guard dogs.

So for example, we have an organization of surgeons working for low-tech solutions or rather let's say appropriate solutions for for low resource settings for doing surgery and other medical procedures.

So you may find like how to build devices to train yourself on doing appendicitis with little resources, right? With maybe some cardboard, some pig meat or something of that sort, depending on there's many solutions or maybe like latex based solutions, all sorts of ideas.

And then, for example, right now, part of the team, I'm not myself involved in it directly, but part of the team working for Appropedia is collaborating on a competition to bring solutions on snake bites, which is so unexpected, but yeah, it happened.

so it is happening rather um there's you know snakebites believe it or not are a thing in many places and um there's a need for uh solutions uh antidotes and cures and other treatments so we're not right now collaborating with a bunch of people in try trying to bring all that knowledge together that is dispersed and have it available um that's another project um then There's a Christian organization that decided to do an encyclopedia for farmers that is currently on Apropedia.

... or whatever, but.

There-- One resource you should check out and, uh, anybody listening, th- there's a website, it's kind of like a appropriate technology version of Wikipedia, so it's geared towards all of these concepts we're talking about called Appropedia.

Have you ever heard of that?

No.

Yeah, look, look it up.

It's called Appropedia, and when I was going to school out west, I went to Humboldt State, and I was involved, like my, the, the program I studied was appropriate technology.

But one of the instructors there started this open source Wikipedia version for exactly what we're talking about.

And it has-