[PDF] An Assessment Of Technology For Local Development eBook

Author : U.S. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : Library Press at Uf
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2016-07
Category : Appropriate technology
ISBN : 9781944455019

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"OTA's An Assessment of Technology for Local Development reviews tools for growing local economies, producing more food and energy locally, creating a healthy local environment, and cutting financial and resource waste. It's as relevant today as the day it was first published."--Robert Olson, Senior Fellow, Institute for Alternative Futures "Hazel Henderson's tireless, brilliant efforts at the OTA to push for public participation in science and technology policy inspired me to carry the ball forward into citizen science and citizen science policy. These OTA reports will arm local communities with the history, data, and context they need to more fully participate in local science and technology assessments and are gifts to many audiences."--Darlene Cavalier, Professor of Practice, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; Founder, SciStarter.com; Cofounder, Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science & Technology An Assessment of Technology for Local Development, a report originally published in 1981 by the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), describes energy-efficient and renewable energy sources being developed and implemented in local communities across the United States. Hazel Henderson, world-renowned futurist who served on OTA's Technology Assessment Advisory Council (TAAC), calls this report "groundbreaking." Michaela Walsh, OTA Project Director for this report, in her new foreword, comments that the work the OTA conducted was "a search for ways to communicate the importance of careful choices for technology, including new and innovative options." This remarkable report is the first in a series of OTA reports republished by the University of Florida Press and Ethical Markets for today's investors, students, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. The new introduction from Ethical Markets founder Hazel Henderson complements the original foreword by Director John C. Gibbons. The U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, founded in 1972 by Congress, examined and anticipated the social and environmental impacts of new technologies, providing Congress with objective, informed analyses of technical innovations affecting society. The OTA, still authorized by Congress, was disbanded in 1996. Ethical Markets Media works to reform markets and metrics and grow the green economy worldwide, providing news and many perspectives with articles, newsletters, and analysis by its founder Hazel Henderson. This joint program with the University of Florida Press to republish these reports is part of Ethical Markets Media's continuing effort to move beyond the unsustainable, fossil-fuel driven Industrial Era toward a cleaner, greener, knowledge-rich Solar Age. www.EthicalMarkets.com.

Author : Bryan, Valerie C.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1466629568

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As the areas of community education and professional development continue to expand, the technologies that are utilized in these programs are also progressively advancing. However, it can sometimes be difficult to pin-point the best system in such a vast, ever-changing world of technology. Technology Use and Research Approaches for Community Education and Professional Development investigates how the role of information technology is impacting the academic and workplace environments. This publication will explore areas such as unique learning styles, various methods of disseminating information, and technology’s role and impact within these settings. Researchers, practitioners, and instructors in the areas of adult, continued, and higher education will benefit from this text’s innovative way of addressing efficient methods of utilizing technology.

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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic government information
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In recent years state and local governments, universities, and private sector groups have become increasingly active in promoting technological innovation and technology-based business development in their local economies. These efforts have resulted in productive new forms of partnership and cooperation at all levels. While federal programs have sometimes supported these efforts, and while recent changes in federal policy have improved the climate for high technology development initiatives, in most cases both the initiative and the ongoing leadership have come from imaginative state and local leaders. This five-chapter report provides: (1) an overview of high-technology development (HTD); (2) a definition and analysis of high-technology industries; (3) a discussion of entrepreneurship and venture capital in HTD; (4) a discussion of state and local government, university, and private sector initiatives for HTD; and (5) an examination of the federal role in regional HTD. Three reports are appended: they concern (1) the theoretical base for high-technology location and regional development, (2) a regional assessment of the formation and growth in high-technology firms, and (3) a preliminary investigation of recent evidence on high-technology industries' spatial tendencies. One factor examined in the latter report is the nature and diversity among high-technology industries in both growth performance and locational tendencies. (JN).