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Indigenous Technology Knowledge Systems

Contemporary Issues in Technology Education, 2023
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Inflows of Foreign Technology and Indigenous Technological Development

Review of Development Economics, 1997
This paper explores the effects of inflows of foreign technology on technological development in developing countries. It evaluates the existing literature exploring this issue and indicates directions for further research. In particular, it is argued that the implications of the theory of foreign direct investment (the dominant channel of ...
Howard Pack, Kamal Saggi
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Indigenous Technology and Culture

2011
This needs to include the technologies that are used every day by most of the world’s populations in developing countries and not just the culture of advanced industrial countries, as this focus would give only a partial perspective on the nature of technology.
Sonja Vandeleur, Marc Schäfer
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Foreign technology or indigenous innovation

2013 6th International Conference on Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2013
In an increasingly globalized world, the mode of innovation is becoming more and more open. How can China make good use of open innovation to solve its problems in the process of catch-up? Through international comparison and the practice of home enterprises, the article argues that to make open innovation efficient, indigenous R&D is a precondition ...
Qiuling Liu, Zhizhong Jie
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Indigenous Technology in Technology Education Curricula and Teaching

2014
The premise of this chapter is that indigenous technologies have a place in Technology Education, and a case is made for the integration of indigenous technology into Technology Education curricula. The potential outcomes are profound—students from both Western and indigenous cultures who are empowered to participate in the development and critique of ...
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The arts of indigenous online dissent: Negotiating technology, indigeneity, and activism in the Cordillera

Telematics and Informatics, 2012
The online communicative environment is expected to revolutionize political discourse as it expands to cover underrepresented groups and ideas. In this platform, marginalized groups such as indigenous communities from the developing world can articulate claims, strategically mobilize and participate in the forms of meaning-making that constitute them ...
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Foreign Technology and Indigenous Technological Capability in Brazil

1984
Developing countries almost by definition have a vast pool of foreign technology on which to draw. However, that a country relies heavily on foreign technology does not necessarily mean that it does not develop indigenous technological capability (ITC).
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Transnationalism, Indigenous Knowledge and Technology

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015
Our paper investigates how current digital technologies are sufficient, or insufficient, in supporting Kenyan transnationals in practising indigenous knowledge. We first outline a view of indigenous knowledge, and then apply it to a study of diaspora Kenyans living in Australia.
Kagonya Awori, Frank Vetere, Wally Smith
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An Indigenous Perspective on Technology Education

2017
This chapter raises the need to consider the indigenous perspective in Technology Education. The cultural aspect that undergirds indigenous technology is prominent in the discussion to abase thesis of the chapter. The author confronts the dominance of western knowledge in the subject, revisits the definition of Technology, explores indigenous ...
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Nigeria's Indigenous Technology

African Studies Review, 1994
Aaron Segal, Bassey W. Andah, Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali   +2 more
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