Charitable Intellectual Technology Transfer
Distinguishing the types of charitable aid, and how best to approach and solve poverty problems.
Types of Charitable Aid
A large portion of the globe, often termed underdeveloped, the third world, or periphery, lives in poverty. In these, areas, two things are common - a lack of access to the physical and medical necessity common elsewhere, and a lack of access to the opportunity to change this situation.
First solution: charity
A common response to the first problem has been charitable efforts by the core countries providing gifts that give temporary relief to the afflicted population. If people are hungry one provides them food. While noble this charity has never been large enough to solve all of the needs of the poor.
A sense of success for a person or society comes from the ability to provide for oneself.
Second solution: charitable technology
More recently first world technology solutions have been provided to allow the local people to have some relief with local resources. If the water supply has dwindled, a well is drilled and the pump from the core country is delivered and installed to provide fresh clean water. While this has sometimes worked, often the technology is more sophisticated than the existing population can maintain. The water is pumped until the pump breaks. The well is abandoned as there is no local expertise to fix it and there is sufficient funding to have some one from a core country come to repair it.
Third solution: charitable intellectual technology transfer
Next generation solutions will come from invention producing technology that is culturally, financially, and technically appropriate for the area where the technology is to be implemented. A culturally and technically appropriate solution will be developed that uses local talent to implement a profitable sustainable business to solve the local problem. This solution uses local talents and resources that may be infeasible in the first world, but fit the economy of the local region.
Solving poverty problems with charitable intellectual technology transfer
Charitable Intellectual Technology Transfer is the gift of technology developed with an awareness to the culture to solve a specific problem in a particular area. While the general solution for particular health and survival problems are known and have been appropriately addressed in core (developed) economies, many times those solutions are not appropriate for periphery, or underdeveloped, economies.
Intellectual and inventive talent is abundant. Most of the talent and energy is expended to grow the abilities of existing developed economies. Many of the most talented innovators have a desire to work on something more meaningful. Eidon's charter is to harness this energy to create solutions that might not be driven economically.
Problems are addressed with technology that is creative and new - often inspired by biomimicry. Solutions are presented to the target economy to verify compatibility and fit. Business models are created to encourage manufacture in the economy with the hope that the community can have both a vibrant in economy and export business.