There were many projects that developed out of Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful" approach -- perhaps one of his best known followers was a guy named McRobie (sp?) -- who developed "Small is possible" technology (stuff like bicycle rickshas as to function as ambulances).

Much of my "proposal" is more fundamental. Basically, having the 10% people "design" solutions for the 90% people is kind of exactly the wrong way around. I think this is what David is trying to wrap his head around in "Is Poverty A Problem That Needs To Be Solved?" (and just earlier today I was thinking how similar these two thread seem to be).