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Convivial Tools Database

This website is a database about people, concepts, projects and websites related to Convivial Tools. Ivan Illich coined the term Convivial Tools in his 1973 book Tools for Conviviality. Convivial Tools can be defined as tools which allow the user to operate with independent efficiency.

This site is a Work in Progress. It replaces my earlier Convivial Tools Encyclopedia, which got bogged down in the attempt to be overly formal and comprehensive.

Links to pages that have yet to be created appear as red links. All categories are attached, directly or indirectly, to Category:Root. See also the Site Map.

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The Convivial Tool

The central part of this website seeks to describe the Convivial Tool as a possible object of design and marketing. See the following categories:

I'm currently in the process of importing into these categories relevant pages from my abandonned Convivial Tools Encyclopedia.

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Thematic Topics

This part of the website tried to situate Convivial Tools within the broader framework of alternative technology. See the page Thematic Topics for a summary. The scope turned out to be far too wide, and some of the pages have been transferred into my Internet Database and Internet User Guide. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with this material, bundled into the following categories:

Note also that a category on "wikis" has been deleted since this subject is covered on my Wiki History Database.

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Is this Website a Wiki?

This website operates under MediaWiki software and thus has the potential to be a Wiki. However, the site is currently configured so that only registered users can edit pages, and there is only one registered user.

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See Also

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