Towards inclusive practices with indigenous knowledge

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Pregnant Women towards Vaccination with Tetanus-Diphtheria (Td) Vaccines and Influenza

Background and Aim: Proper knowledge, attitude and practice of pregnant women about vaccination during this period will have a significant impact on their and their baby’s health. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of pregnant women toward flu and Td vaccination. Materials and Methods: This study was a descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study on...

Indigenous Knowledge Creation Practices: The Case of Ethiopia

Knowledge management in general, and knowledge creation in particular, gives organizations a competitive advantage in the knowledge era. Although there is a lack of deliberate knowledge management and creation efforts in modern Ethiopia, the country possesses 1,700-year old indigenous practices of knowledge creation. This research in progress seeks to explore the extent to which indigenous know...

Transferring Whose Knowledge? Exchanging Whose Best Practices?: On Knowing About Indigenous Knowledge and Aboriginal Suicide

Over the better part of a decade we have been hard at work re-fashioning a still earlier decade’s worth of work on identity development and youth suicide in order to better fit these efforts to the special circumstances of Canadian Aboriginal youth—an ongoing effort aimed at explaining two deeply puzzling matters. One of these concerns the heartbreakingly high rate of suicide widely known to ma...

Towards an Inclusive

Towards inclusive identity management

The article argues for a shift of perspective in identity management (IDM) research and development. Accessibility and usability issues affect identity management to such an extent that they demand a reframing and reformulation of basic designs and requirements of modern identity management systems. The rationale for the traditional design of identity management systems and mechanisms has been ...