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There is somewhat of a resurgence happening, with a growing number of organisations adopting Open Source Appropriate Technology (OSAT) such as the Open Source Ecology project which is working towards a Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), with blueprints "for the easy fabrication of the 50 types of industrial machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts" [^osat]. They apply open design principles to AT. A big potential of OSAT is that designs are free as in gratis and as in libre, they can be peer-reviewed with iterative improvements which can stimulate development, increase quality over time and generate adaptations to specific local needs.
-[^schu]: Ernst F. Schumacher. 1973. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered.
-HarperCollins, New York.
+[^schu]: Ernst F. Schumacher. 1973. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered. HarperCollins, New York.
[^oecd]: Nicolas Jequier and Gerard Blanc. 1983. The World of Appropriate Technology. Technical Report. Development Center of the OECD, Paris. 9 pages.
[^osat]: Open Source Ecology. 2018. Machines: Global Village Construction Set.[https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs](https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs)
