What Does 3D Printing Change about Development?
Thomas Birtchnell, William Hoyle · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2014
Transfers are a major tool in relationships between aid giving and aid receiving regions. Transfers of technology offer solutions to many major development goals. In this chapter, Birtchnell and Hoyle focus on the changes that transfers of 3D printing will invoke in development discourse and policy with the ultimate goal of overall poverty alleviation. Niche grassroots level innovations are a crucial element in community action against material poverty and 3D printing intimates a different approach to furnishing the bottom of the pyramid with objects of use that could empower their lives. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.