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- Title
Case Study: Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sharing.
- Authors
Neylon, Cameron
- Abstract
The IDRC-funded project 'Empowering Indigenous Peoples and Knowledge Systems Related to Climate Change and Intellectual Property Rights' is part of the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet). The project "examiners processes of open and collaborative science related to indigenous peoples' knowledge, climate change and intellectual property rights". Natural Justice, the lead organisation has a strong ethical stance on the agency and control over knowledge being vested with the contributing project participants, communities of the Nama and Griqua peoples of the Western Cape of South Africa. The project focuses on questions of how climate change is affecting these communities, how do they produce and maintain knowledge relating to climate change, how that knowledge is characterised and shared (or not) with wider publics, and how legal frameworks promote or hinder the agenda of these indigenous communities and their choices to communicate and collaborate with wider publics. Indigenous Knowledge is an area where ethical issues of informed consent, historical injustice, non-compatible epistemologies and political, legal, and economic issues all collide in ways that challenge western and Anglo-American assumptions about data sharing. The group seeks to strongly model and internally critique their own ethical stance in the process of their research, through for instance, using community contracts and questioning institutional informed consent systems.
- Subjects
ABORIGINAL Canadians; CLIMATE change; INTELLECTUAL property; INFORMATION sharing; INTERNATIONAL Development Research Centre (Canada)
- Publication
Research Ideas & Outcome Journal, 2017, Vol 3, p1
- ISSN
2367-7163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/rio.3.e21704