New useful technolgies often lock out the Third World, but our drives can be made in any reasonably well equipped machine shop anywhere in the world.
The Rolowitz Drive will be particularly beneficial to the Third World. it is extremely simple and easy to manufacture. It requires no difficult to obtain or expensive materials. They can therefore be locally manufactured.
Once anufactured on a large scale, many uses can be found for them. Third World countries labor is often more readily available than machinery. The Rolowitz Drive provides a method whereby even the largest load can be moved by the application of very little power, the tradeoff being time. In other words a single person could pedal a heavy load up a steep hill; he would, of course, be moving very slowly but he would not have to push hard on the pedals. No presently available technolgy can achieve this.
Furthermore the Rolowitz Drive does not require adopting any new technology to take advantage of it. It will instead make much better use of existing technology. It can easily be retrofitted, for instance, to existing bicycle rickshaws, which are ubiquitous in Third World countries. This would enormously increase the effectiveness and efficiency of a large number of workers at the very bottom of some of the poorest societies in the world, thus raising their earning potential in return for a tiny investment. A Rolowitz Drive designed for such a use could be manufactured in large quantities for less per unit than existing bicycle gear systems.