NEWS
17/09/2010
India
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE KERALA STATE OF INDIA
Since the ‘80, the People's Science Movement of the State of Kerala - KSSP, in cooperation with the Integrated Rural Technology Centre - IRTC, have been intensely working to spread scientific knowledge and popularize science and scientific outlook among people in towns and country areas of the State of Kerala.
The KSSP, with approximately 30,000 members pertaining to all social classes and divided in about 2,000 operational units within the State, aims to implement alternative development methodologies giving special emphasis to equity and sustainability and to transform lab technologies into mass technologies.
Considering the results achieved so far, the Department of Science and Technology of the Indian Government sustained KSSP in setting up the Technology Centre IRTC with a skilled scientific team and with its own infrastructure and facilities so as to organize Research and Development (R&D) work. The activity of the Centre is currently oriented toward the following: suiting technologies in a form to be accepted by the society; disseminating innovative practices and technologies and scientific culture among the masses in the framework of the local development plans; taking new technologies out of the Indian R&D institutions for field trials; developing integrate Science and Technology packages and management models for strengthening local economies; identifying and promote local inventiveness; encouraging young scientists, research scholars, students and rural innovators to work for rural development.
Please visit:
www.kssp.in
www.irtc.org.in
Since the ‘80, the People's Science Movement of the State of Kerala - KSSP, in cooperation with the Integrated Rural Technology Centre - IRTC, have been intensely working to spread scientific knowledge and popularize science and scientific outlook among people in towns and country areas of the State of Kerala.
The KSSP, with approximately 30,000 members pertaining to all social classes and divided in about 2,000 operational units within the State, aims to implement alternative development methodologies giving special emphasis to equity and sustainability and to transform lab technologies into mass technologies.
Considering the results achieved so far, the Department of Science and Technology of the Indian Government sustained KSSP in setting up the Technology Centre IRTC with a skilled scientific team and with its own infrastructure and facilities so as to organize Research and Development (R&D) work. The activity of the Centre is currently oriented toward the following: suiting technologies in a form to be accepted by the society; disseminating innovative practices and technologies and scientific culture among the masses in the framework of the local development plans; taking new technologies out of the Indian R&D institutions for field trials; developing integrate Science and Technology packages and management models for strengthening local economies; identifying and promote local inventiveness; encouraging young scientists, research scholars, students and rural innovators to work for rural development.
Please visit:
www.kssp.in
www.irtc.org.in