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HOLISTIC APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT BY APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY IN SOUTHERN COUNTRIES By Dr. Costantino Faillace |
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HOLISTIC APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT BY APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY IN SOUTHERN COUNTRIES By Dr. Costantino Faillace |
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New Millennium With the fast changing political and socio-economic systems in many parts of the world, AT will need to follow a dynamic trend to be appropriate to the world's changing conditions. The creation of global AT networks is a first sign to adequate its activities in an efficient way to meet the challenges imposed by the rapid socio-economic changes. The end of the second millennium should be considered a transition time between the new and the old world order. The collapse of the Berlin wall is the start of a new era, a new world order. There are still too many walls firmly standing which need to be eliminated if peace is to prevail! The concern about the prevailing world situation has in fact motivated the organizers of this important meeting to invite so many world authorities from all over the world to discuss some of the main problems threatening world peace. |
