Practical Action (formerly the Intermediate Technology Development Group) is dedicated to just that.

FORBES: Global Poverty: The Real Reason Most People Won't Wear Google Glasses

Intermediate technology has meant many things to many people as a type of technology which lies in between the primitive technology and sophisticated technology.

FORBES: The Future is Complicated

In this field several terms have sprung up and have been indiscriminately used like (a) Intermediate technology or low technology, (b) appropriate technology, and (c) Innovative Technologies.

FORBES: The Future is Complicated

The publication of the Small is Working: Technology for Poverty Reduction video and associated booklet, thirty years after Small Is Beautiful , is intended to present, review, revitalize and promote the contribution of smaller-scale and intermediate technology to poverty reduction and sustainable development.

UNESCO: Natural Sciences

Note first that many of the service industries which have been among the heaviest investors in new technology stand at an intermediate position in the supply chain.

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