Technology Transfer and Some Repercussions in Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorSequeira, Marvin
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-07T07:10:21Z
dc.date.available2019-01-07T07:10:21Z
dc.date.issued1997-04
dc.description.abstractThe present work does not pretend to exhaust all the implications, advantages and disadvantages that the transference of technology implies, especially for the countries of the Third World. This work is just a modest attempt to illustrate some of the repercussions that such transference has caused to the different social dimensions focusing briefly on the Kenya reality. The first chapter presents the process that technology has experienced along history. It is just a fast view that embraces a short definition, the relation between science and technology and some of its historical steps. This historical overview ends up with a short assessment on the destructive effects that technology in its modem development brought to the I and II World War. The social control generated by technological elites is mentioned in this first chapter as hindrance to the access of the minorities to power that derives from technological acquisition. With this social repercussion, some cultural values have been affected tremendously by Western values that have not taken into consideration local values, neither the philosophical and mystical dimension of some cultural settlements. These repercussions are briefly explained in this section. A fashionable term in nowadays is the fighting for Social Justice. Some lines are dedicated to the analysis of this reality that has been touched also by the transference of modern technology Social Justice has been treated as a crucial element for the equilibrium in the access of the minorities to the fruits that come from the progress and from the modernisation of social structures It is considered as well the fact that if technology transfer is maker of job opportunities, it could also by means of automation contribute to labour displacement. The last part of this chapter presents the definition, applicability and advantages of what is called Appropriate Technology. Since Appropriate Technology pretends to respect existent technology and local values here it is treated as an eventual way or factor of development for the Third World countries. The second and third chapter wants to land on some concrete situations where this technology transfer was adopted. Some samples of the Kenyan reality have been taken to illustrate the mechanisms most used for such transference and the fear of risking of some local companies before the sometimes very heavy conditions that trasnationals companies imposed over their recipients. For countries with scarce technological recourses and very little capital, the most suitable way for their technological and economical development may be the adaptation and actualisation of the modern technology coming from abroad to the already existent technology. This adaptation is presented as an important factor for the design of local manufacture that in the long run would help to the growth of the local industry. Such technology adaptation can be perceived more clearly in the so called Informal Sector. The Jua Kali phenomenon is growing rapidly. Its capacity of adapting and duplicating foreign technology to the local cond,it ions give this sector the potential to be a major contributor to the economic development arid technological advancement of Kenya .The technology used by artisans in this sector is eit ler upgraded traditional technology or intermediate technology. In this last section a general gl Ince at the situation of the informal sector will drive our attention by means of some concret examples to the repercussions and the challenge that technology transfer has meant for those who claimed to belong to the Jua Kali groups These instances present not only an indi ;erious creation but in some cases adaptation, which testifies both to the inventiveness of the local people and to their capacity for developing technology.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/464
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectScience and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectEarly Technologyen_US
dc.subjectThe Industrial Revolutionen_US
dc.subjectReassessments of Technologyen_US
dc.subjectTechnology and Social Controlen_US
dc.subjectTechnology Bearer and Destroyer of Valuesen_US
dc.subjectTechnology Transfer and Social Justiceen_US
dc.subjectTechnology Transfer and Social Justiceen_US
dc.subjectAppropriate Technologyen_US
dc.subjectTechnology Transfer in Kenyaen_US
dc.subjectMechanism for Technology Transferen_US
dc.subjectAdaptation of Technology Transferen_US
dc.subjectWork With Jua Kalien_US
dc.subjectDeveloping the Jua Kali Sectoren_US
dc.titleTechnology Transfer and Some Repercussions in Kenyaen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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