The Ulwazi Programme » indigenous knowledge http://blog.ulwazi.org Sharing Indigenous Knowledge Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:47:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Indigenous Knowledges and Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of Globalization http://blog.ulwazi.org/2010/02/indigenous-knowledges-and-intellectual-property-rights-in-the-age-of-globalization/ http://blog.ulwazi.org/2010/02/indigenous-knowledges-and-intellectual-property-rights-in-the-age-of-globalization/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:55:57 +0000 Betsie http://blog.ulwazi.org/?p=178 Mombasa, Kenya, 15-20 July 2010

ISOLA – The International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa hosts this conference on Indigenous Knowledges and Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of Globalization.

For all enquiries, contact the local conference organizers:
Dr. Peter Wasamba
Department of Literature
University of Nairobi
Tel: +254202245311
Tel: +254722734121
Fax: +2540202245566
E-mail: pwasamba@uonbi.ac.ke or kenyaorature@yahoo.co.uk

www.africaisola.org/mombasa2010documents.htm

]]> http://blog.ulwazi.org/2010/02/indigenous-knowledges-and-intellectual-property-rights-in-the-age-of-globalization/feed/ 0 Town like Alice takes on German ‘biopirate’ http://blog.ulwazi.org/2010/01/town-like-alice-takes-on-german-biopirate/ http://blog.ulwazi.org/2010/01/town-like-alice-takes-on-german-biopirate/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:17:44 +0000 Betsie http://blog.ulwazi.org/?p=162 A South African community is to challenge German homeopathic giant Schwabe Pharmaceuticals in court in Munich next week over a traditional medicine the company is seeking to patent.

The case could set a precedent in cases in which multinationals use the plants and indigenous knowledge of developing countries, where laws may not protect communities’ intellectual property rights.

Schwabe wants to patent a method for producing extracts from the roots of Pelargonium sidoides and Pelargonium reniforme to make cough and cold syrups. The company has also hit problems in India over alleged bioprospecting.

Read the full article at M&G …

]]> http://blog.ulwazi.org/2010/01/town-like-alice-takes-on-german-biopirate/feed/ 0 Using Indigenous Knowledge for Studying Climate Change http://blog.ulwazi.org/2009/12/using-indigenous-knowledge-for-studying-climate-change/ http://blog.ulwazi.org/2009/12/using-indigenous-knowledge-for-studying-climate-change/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:10:21 +0000 Ulwazi Web Editor http://blog.ulwazi.org/?p=148 Temperatures dropped and big, unseasonal flakes of snow swirled in the breeze earlier this week in Copenhagen, turning skies gray and streets slippery. But the change discussed in conversations wherever you go in this ornately decorated city is not the week’s weather but the coming century’s climate. Nowhere does climate change feel more ominous than at the North Atlantic House, a cultural center in central Copenhagen celebrating the Arctic peoples of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. An artist from Greenland turned the North Atlantic House building into a massive art installation symbolizing global warming. The front of the 250-year-old former warehouse shimmers with what appears like a 6-story iceberg popping out of its façade, but it’s literally only the tip of the iceberg. Inside, several exhibitions document changes brought to the Arctic by global warming, and forecast the more dramatic transformations expected in the future.

Read the full article at National Geographic …

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Here’s how old and new will be joined in several winning projects.

Read the full article at The World Bank blog …

]]> http://blog.ulwazi.org/2009/12/dm2009-pictures-www-flickr-com-what-is-this-this-is-a-flickr-badge-showing-public-items-from-the-httpwww-flickr-comgroups1305154n22pool-development-marketplace-2009-group-pool-make-you/feed/ 0 Climate workshop stresses sustainability, indigenous knowledge http://blog.ulwazi.org/2009/11/climate-workshop-stresses-sustainability-indigenous-knowledge/ http://blog.ulwazi.org/2009/11/climate-workshop-stresses-sustainability-indigenous-knowledge/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:15:53 +0000 Ulwazi Web Editor http://blog.ulwazi.org/?p=122 American Indian stalwarts of environmental justice recently met at a national workshop to write a milestone climate change declaration, clearly outlining a course on how to save the planet using indigenous science and knowledge.

Representatives from the White House also participated in the Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop II, a four-day event sponsored by NASA on the homelands of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Minnesota.

“In this Declaration, we invite humanity to join with us to improve our collective human behavior so that we may develop a more sustainable world – a world where the inextricable relationship of biological, and environmental diversity, and cultural diversity is affirmed and protected,” according to the declaration committee members.

Read the full article at Indian Country Today …

]]> http://blog.ulwazi.org/2009/11/climate-workshop-stresses-sustainability-indigenous-knowledge/feed/ 0 Indigenous knowledge ‘important for innovation’ http://blog.ulwazi.org/2009/11/indigenous-knowledge-important-for-innovation/ http://blog.ulwazi.org/2009/11/indigenous-knowledge-important-for-innovation/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:21:17 +0000 Ulwazi Web Editor http://blog.ulwazi.org/?p=107 “[We] are to make a big deal around scientific exploration in indigenous knowledge,” Pandor told a conference on intellectual property rights in Johannesburg.

“Indigenous knowledge is a key part of our innovation technology.”

Pandor said that private companies in Europe had exploited knowledge gained by publicly-funded research in South Africa, including around solar panels.

Read the full article at The Times …

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