Notes on Traditional Knowledge, Modern Knowledge and Rural Development

Notes on Traditional Knowledge, Modern Knowledge and Rural Development

For this purpose, I take 'traditional knowledge' to mean the body of knowledge, science and techniques used by rural people, and the term 'modern knowledge' to mean the body of knowledge, science and techniques arising essentially from the European scientific revolution of the 17th century.1 Traditional knowledge and modern knowledge are not at either end of a continuum of usefulness or scienti...

Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development

Knowledge Facts , Knowledge Fiction Notes on the Role of ICT in Knowledge Management for Development

What happens when corporate knowledge management monoculture meets the diverse international development sector? This paper finds that development agencies have too readily adopted approaches from the Northern corporate sector that are inappropriate to development needs. These approaches treat knowledge as a rootless commodity, and information and communications technology as a key knowledge to...

GTZ READER: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Systems for Rural Development

Introduction Knowledge Management Knowledge Management (KM) is a relatively novel management concept. It has been pushed by the rapid developments of Information and Communication Technology. ICT facilitates a speedy exchange of data, information and documents. There is groupware for communication; content management systems to organise and retrieve documents; expert systems, data mining and te...

Climate Narratives : What is Modern about Traditional Ecological Knowledge ? 1

The literature on traditional ecological knowledge has established the importance of community narratives for capturing and communicating complex environmental information and linking it to practice. We make the case that narratives are important not just to traditional communities but modern, cosmopolitan societies as well. Principles of narratology are employed to examine how ―moderns‖ talk a...