Traditional knowledge

Traditional Knowledge and Global Lawmaking

Linking African Traditional Medicine Knowledge

African Traditional Medicine (ATM) is widely used in Africa as the first-line of treatment thanks to its accessibility and affordability. However, the lack of formalization of this knowledge can lead to safety issues and malpractice. This paper investigates a possible contribution of the Semantic Web in realizing the formalization and integration of ATM with data on conventional medicine (CM). ...

Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development

Some Traditional Mathematical Knowledge Management

What is mathematical knowledge and how can it be managed? There are not only differing views around on the management aspect but there is no real clarity or consensus on what mathematical knowledge is; indeed there are questions as to what knowledge is and what mathematics is. For the sake of definiteness I will adopt a particular stance from which to work, namely that aspect of organizing the ...

Two Thoughts about Traditional Knowledge

Professor Sunder’s intriguing paper demonstrates the continuing power of the related ideas of environmentalism and the public domain, but it also identifies some of the hazards of those metaphors. I have only two unrelated thoughts to add to her analysis. First, I was struck by the parallels between her argument and the historiography involving the displacement by British colonists of Native Am...