Microhydro-powered digital and analog technologies are becoming an integral part of everyday life in off-grid, high-mountain communities across Nepal. Yet local capacity for technology repair and maintenance remains minimal and at times absent. In collaboration with community partner, Himalayan Environment and Life Protection (HELP), researchers will co-develop and implement a place-based technology repair and maintenance training program in the Nubri Valley, an ethnically Tibetan enclave in northwestern Nepal. Through participatory workshops and repair and maintenance toolkit development, the project aims to build local capacity for technological self-reliance and support the long-term sustainability of essential community technologies.
