Many look at knowledge management as an organizational initiative, which it is. However, can Knowledge Management also be used to assist low technology situations such as rural villages? This paper describes the application of Knowledge Menagement to the creation of a self-reliant community in Thailand. Changing demographics are threatening the ability of rural villages to sustain their viability as traditional methods of passing knowledge from one generation to the next are being circumvented by the movement of the young to the more urbanized areas of Thailand. Knowledge Management is seen as a way of changing the traditional knowledge transfer process to something that assists those who remain in the villages.