Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.991130090802.14386B-100000@ux1.cyberenet.net> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:35:32 -0500 From: mailto:tuandbob@CYBERENET.NET Subject: Re: DEVEL-L Digest - 28 Nov 1999 to 29 Nov 1999 (#1999-192) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Automatic digest processor wrote:> Topics of the day:
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> 5. Language, Tech. transfer, & Devt.
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> From: "Turlough F. Guerin" <mailto:turloughg@HOTMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Opening of China & Transferring Environment-Related Technologies
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> Greetings:
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> I am interested to learn about some of the successes (and failures) you
> may know of with regard to western companies & individuals attempting to
> transfer environmental technologies into China and SE Asia.
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> Specifically, I am interested to know:
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> 1. Why have certain activities of technology transfer been successful and
> others not?
There are a couple of criteria that make any project successful.
a. The project is one that the recipients want, not one that they participate in to receive secondary benefits (money, goods, favorable treatment from a higher level of government).
b. The project is maintainable and sustainable at the level of the recipients. This includes parts, skill and monetary levels.
> 2 What is unique (if anything) about transferring Australian
> environmental technologies to China and SE Asia and what have we (i.e
> practitioners)learnt so far?
Most of the Australian projects I've seen in SEA (pre and post 1975) met criteria a and b above, making them unique among projects from other countries, including the US. That's why they were successful.
Thanks for the positive and practical thinking.
Bob