Setting the stage for new global knowledge: Science, Economics, and Indigenous knowledge in ′The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity′ at the Fourth World Conservation Congress

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Monfreda
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Fourth World ◽  
World Conservation

scholarly journals Indigenous Knowledge and Public Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munyaradzi Mawere
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Teaching Learning

The discourse on indigenous knowledge has incited a debate of epic proportions across the world over the years. In Africa, especially in the sub-Saharan region, while the so-called indigenous communities have always found value in their own local forms of knowledge, the colonial administration and its associates viewed indigenous knowledge as unscientific, illogical, anti-development, and/or ungodly. The status and importance of indigenous knowledge has changed in the wake of the landmark 1997 Global Knowledge Conference in Toronto, which emphasised the urgent need to learn, preserve, and exchange indigenous knowledge. Yet, even with this burgeoning interest and surging call, little has been done, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, to guarantee the maximum exploitation of indigenous knowledge for the common good. In view of this realisation, this paper discusses how indigenous knowledge can and should both act as a tool for promoting the teaching/learning process in Africa's public education and address the inexorably enigmatic amalgam of complex problems and cataclysms haunting the world.

Indigenous knowledge of traditionally used plants from Iran for fever/malaria treatment

Planta Medica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 76 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Esmaeili ◽  
F Naghibi ◽  
M Mosaddegh
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Malaria Treatment

Models of Development Based on Technology Diffusion

2012 ◽  
pp. 117-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Golichenko
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Technology Diffusion ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Technology Knowledge ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Technological Potential ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
Effective Use

The problems of multifold increase of technological potential of developing countries are considered in the article. To solve them, i.e. to organize effectively tapping into global knowledge and their absorption, the performance of two diffusion channels is considered: open knowledge transfer and commercial knowledge transfer. The models of technological catching-up are investigated. Two of them are found to give an opportunity of effective use of international competition and global technology knowledge as a driver of technology development.

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