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Indigenous Technology Knowledge Systems

Contemporary Issues in Technology Education, 2023
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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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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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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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Implications of Indigenous Agricultural Technology

2001
Abstract As Sauer indicated, environments are interpreted and utilized in terms of the cultures which occupy them. The technology available, desirable, and ecologically, economically, and socially feasible determines how different habitats can be used, for how long, and how productively.
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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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Commercialization of Indigenously Developed Technologies

2015
The current rate at which scientific and technological changes and innovations are taking place worldwide is creating many challenges while providing enormous benefits to humankind. Science and technology are closely interlinked with our lives, and the studies and developments in both these areas are essential for human development.
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African Indigenous Perspectives on Technology

2016
Contemporary African societies bear the imprint of the legacy of colonialism but they are also marked both by their pre-colonial heritage and their different postcolonial experiences. The way Africa is known today is a reflection of the political, economic and historical intrusions and constructions of its societies that resulted from colonial contact ...
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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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