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Indigenous Knowledge, South-South Exchange of New Technologies and a Warped Intellectual Property Rights System

International Journal of Social Science Studies

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Title Indigenous Knowledge, South-South Exchange of New Technologies and a Warped Intellectual Property Rights System
 
Creator Kindiki, Moses Mpuria
 
Description In this paper I analyse the contribution of new technologies in sustainable development and poverty alleviation in the global South. My research design is desktop analysis based on a theoretical communication model of the knowledge and communication interface. I present an analysis of the possibilities that exist in South-South exchange of indigenous knowledge using the new technologies, defined as the modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), to address problems of poverty and sustainability. I also give an example of a programme in India that has successfully attempted this. In this paper I employ qualitative method of analysis. I find that there is great potential in South-South exchange of new technologies to address problems of poverty and sustainability. In the same breath, however, I contend that there are substantial challenges that the Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) system poses to this exchange. I conclude that the exchange is sustainable only to the extent that the South is able to push for the revision of the world trade organisation IPRs regime to avoid appropriation of one of its greatest assets, namely indigenous knowledge. In this paper I recommend that the South should be unflinching in its quest for a fair IPR system.
 
Publisher Redfame Publishing
 
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Date 2015-04-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/778
10.11114/ijsss.v3i3.778
 
Source International Journal of Social Science Studies; Vol 3, No 3 (2015); 163-168
2324-8041
2324-8033
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/778/721