Social Technology, agriculture and income generation: effects of networks on the reapplication of innovative experiences in Latin American countries

Resumo

Social Technologies (STs) represent effective mechanisms to overcome some limits of Conventional Technology and to generate social and productive inclusion. Understanding how the articulation of actors on a network around a ST influences the potential of a technological diffusion to other places that are not those of its origin is, thus, fundamental to propagate the participatory local development, and the results indicate that the reapplicability can be related to the density of the internal network to ST and the form of communication between the actors.