Indigenous Knowledge

Suggested sites:

• Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network is a youth and indigenous peoples organization that is involved in the field of youth organizing, mobilization and advocacy of youth issues.
• Biodiversity, access, indigenous knowledge and Intellectural Property Rights (IPRs), publications from the Third World Network.
• CIKOD (Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development) is a Ghanaian organization that develops methodologies to facilitate sustainable grassroots organizational development.
• CIKS (Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems) specialises in traditional agriculture.
• COMPAS (Comparing and Supporting Endogenous Development) is a network implementing field programmes to develop, test and improve endogenous development methodologies.
• Cultural Survival is an organization that believes that indigenous people should have the right to be indigenous people on their own lands and their own terms.
• Gaia Foundation is committed to ecological governance through restoring cultural and biological diversity.
• Global Development Network (GDN)
• Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation (GKPF) promotes knowledge and innovation in the use of ICT for development.
• Global Oneness Project gathers stories from people who base their lives and work on the understanding that we bear responsibility for each other and our shared world. A library of films is available for free from the website.
• Heeks, R., Arun, S., & Morgan, S. (2005). Researching women's ICT-based enterprise for development: Methods, tools and lessons from fieldwork.
• Indigenous Environmental Network was formed by Indigenous peoples to address environmental and economic justice issues. Activities include building the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal governments to protect sacred sites, the environment, our health, and to build economically sustainable communities.
• Indigenous Knowledge for Development, the World Bank's gateway to development approaches that rely on traditional knowledge systems to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
• Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centres
• Indigenous Peoples, a collection of resources from Zunia: Knowledge Exchange, formerly dgCommunities.
• Insight's Participatory video methods value local knowledge, connect communities and decision-makers, and enable people to develop control over their own development and decisions affecting their lives.
• International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG). (2009). Indigenising development. Poverty in Focus, 17. (412K pdf)
• Langill, S. (n.d.). Introduction to indigenous knowledge. The Overstory, 82.
• Raghavan, C. (2000). Neem Patent revoked by European Patent Office.
• Rao, C. N. (2004). The role of Intellectual Property Rights in Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Economic and Social Studies Working Paper 61.
• Simpson, L. (2008, November 8). Can Aboriginal traditional knowledge survive in the modern world [Video file].
• Survival is an organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide. It works for tribal peoples' rights in three ways: education, advocacy and campaigns.
• UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is an advisory body that discusses indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, environment, education, health and human rights.
• Wabanaki: People of the Dawn - Part 1, a learning guide that explores the history and culture of the Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia as revealed by the discovery of artifacts in the Mersey River area of Queens County. (1.5 Mb pdf)