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Imagine if you were the owner of small machine shop in South America, Africa or Asia.  Most of your business is fixing existing equipment and making replacement parts.  Someone whom you know has brought you a print out from the local university computer network.  It is a diagram for a pump made from commonly available metal stock.  You know you and your helpers could machine it.  And when the parts are completed they assemble into the pump in a way that no tools are needed.  Such a pump would be very successful in your market.  You could sell a pump that anyone could without any tools assemble or disassemble and fix. Your worried, will there be problems if you make it?  Your friend explains that the design is available for free.  Just don't sell it to the military.

This is micro entrepreneurship at its best.  It is also the vision of the Extreme Standardization Project.  Within most developing nations there is a much stronger sense of repair and reuse is already established.  With western industry entrenched with establish life cycle models the Extreme Standardization Project believes it will be members of the developing world who will be early adopters to our new technology.  Therefore the Extreme Standardization Project has established International Development as the initial project domain and individuals in developing areas as our "customers."

The first quarter of 2008 will be spent establishing alignments of customer needs with project concepts as well as establishing alignments with other organizations working in international development. Once the online community is established, individuals will be invited to contribute to several efforts to improve life for those in many areas of the world.*  Contact us for more information at www.ExtremeStandardization.org.

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