Traditional Knowledge and Global Lawmaking

Traditional Knowledge and Global Lawmaking

Knowledge of Traditional Medicine- a Scanning in Global Settings

The health care industry with its overburdening reliance on innovation, and patents, depends on medicinal ecological knowledge to derive eco-friendly products with minimum side effects from plants and other natural genetic resources. Most indigenous and local communities are situated in world’s most biological rich and diverse, areas with abundance in natural resources, however economically dis...

WHO global atlas on traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM)

Due to rising demand for traditional complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) globally, international ministerial groups and professional bodies have been calling for a global perspective on policy and a means for countries to share information and policy initiatives with one another. The WHO Global Atlas is designed to: assess the status of development of the sector; plan for further deve...

Lawmaking 2.0

A crowdsourcing idea campaign aiming at evaluating and editing a draft for the new Law on Education was run in Russia in May August 2010. We developed an original crowdsourcing platform and organized collaboration of more than 500 participants. 95 original versions of the Law items were created. 23 of them were approved by the community and graduated. The mechanism proved to be effective as a t...

Knowledge, Politics and Power in Global Health; Comment on “Knowledge, Moral Claims and the Exercise of Power in Global Health”

This article agrees with recent arguments suggesting that normative and epistemic power is rife within global health policy and provides further examples of such. However, in doing so, it is argued that it is equally important to recognize that global health is, and always will be, deeply political and that some form of power is not only necessary for the system to advance, but also to try and ...