Technical Enquiry Service
Practical Action's Technical Enquiry Service supplies, free of charge, technical and developmental information to our target group which includes grassroots development workers, community-based organisations, NGOs and other agencies using appropriate technologies to implement sustainable development.
Please note: Although the Technical Enquiry Service is free, it is not designed for commercial organisations, students, academic institutions and organisations working in the European Community, North America or other developed nations. However, we are willing to undertake research work but it is necessary to charge for this service.
We can also offer, free of charge:
Technical Briefs, a series of fact-sheets on appropriate technologies, including agriculture, energy, water, construction and transport, , which can be downloaded free from this site.
Resource Centres, based in the Practical Action offices, are open to the public and hold a distinctive collection of appropriate technology and development literature.
About the Technical Enquiry Service
Through Practical Action's international network of enquiry services, the Technical Enquiry Service is able to call on the expertise of several hundred professionals in technical, economic, and sociological disciplines to help formulate the answers to enquiries - currently we receive and answer approximately 1200-1500 enquiries a year.
The Technical Enquiry Service always tries to supply information of direct relevance to the individual enquirer's circumstances and will take into account the non-technical factors that might have a bearing on the use of the technology.
This can only be done, however, if full details of the particular technology application are given - after all, our answer can only be as good as your question, so please ensure you fill in all the relevant fields on the enquiry form as fully as possible.
Enquiries can also be made through any of Practical Action's offices at the following addresses:
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Technical Enquiry Service Practical Action The Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development Bourton-on-Dunsmore Rugby, CV23 9QZ United Kingdom Tel: (+44)1926 634400 Fax: (+44)1926 634401 E-mail: infoserv @practicalaction.org.uk |
Technical Enquiry Service Practical Action Bangladesh GPO Box 3881 Dhaka 1000 Bangladesh Tel: (+880) 2 811 1934 Fax: (+880) 2 813 134 E-mail: bangladesh.infoserv @practicalaction.org |
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Technical Enquiry Service Practical Action East Africa P O Box 39493 Nairobi Kenya Tel: (+254) 2 719313, 715293, 719413 Fax: (+254) 2 710083 E-mail: eastafrica.infoserv @practicalaction.org |
Technical Enquiry Service Practical Action South Asia 5 Lionel Edirisinghe Mawatha Kirulapone Colombo 5 Sri Lanka Tel: (+94) 1 829412 Fax: (+94) 1 856188 E-mail: southasia.infoserv @practicalaction.org |
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Technical Enquiry Service Practical Action Southern Africa Number 4 Ludlow Road (off Enterprise Road) Newlands Harare Telephone: (+263 4) 776107, 788157 Fax: 00 263 4 788157 Email: southernafrica.infoserv @practicalaction.org |
Technical Enquiry Service Practical Action Latin America Casilla Postal 18-0620 Lima 18 Peru Tel: +00 511 446 7324 Fax: +00 511 446-6621 |
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Technical Enquiry Service Practical Action Nepal P O Box 15135 Kupandol Lalitpur Kathmandu Nepal Tel: +00 977 1 5-545698 Fax: +00 977 1 5-546185 |
Technical Enquiry Service Practical Action Sudan P.O. Box 4172 Khartoum Sudan Tel: +00 249 11 460 419 Fax: +00 249 11 472002 |
If you have any comments about the Technical Information Service other than an enquiry, please contact Neil Noble at: neiln@practicalaction.org.uk
For general information about Practical Action, please contact enquiries@practicalaction.org.uk
