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Indigenous Knowledge has been defined as :-
"the unique, traditional, local knowledge existing within and developed around the specific conditions of women and men indigenous to a particular geographic area".
NAME DESCRIPTION
Asian People Asian Indigenous People General Resources.
Case Study from the Sarawak Biodiversity Council
Conference Biodiversity and Indigenous Knoweldge Systems in Malaysia, 2004.
Conference Declaration of the Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network, Sabah, Malaysia. 4-5 February 2004.
Conference Indigenous Thematic Planning Conference for Tunisia, held in Ottawa, Canada in March.
CWIS Center for World Indigenous Studies. recommended as a starting-point.
Development Gateway Indigenous Knowledge - an excellent starting-point.
e-Governance
UNDP publication on Indigenous online learning and
Software Tools for Indigenous Knowledge Management.
Full Circle
Online Community Toolkit - maybe for capturing IK.
ICASIT 
Excellent and highly recommended.
IK Pages
Papers on Indigenous Knowledge facilitated by the Int'l Institute of Rural Reconstruction.
IK Programme
Indigenous Knowledge Programme - featuring Malaysia, supported by Web.net.
Nuffic
Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor from Dutch Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education.
IPR
An interesting Paper on Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Knowledge Management.
Knowledge Mgt Toolkit
A commercial product available at a price of $200.
IK Techniques
Indigenous Knowledge Tools and Techniques.
Sci Dev Indigenous Knowledge 'Dossier' from the Scientific Development Network.
Seeing is Believing An interesting Site with a great name.
Swaziland
This article about Swaziland in Africa suggests that ICT can play a major supporting role.
Traditional Healing
A very positive paper from Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan in Sabah, Malaysia.
UN ESCAP
The UN ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) launches a major initiative to help attain ESCAP's three-pronged objective of managing globalization, reducing poverty and addressing emerging social issues.
UNESCO Database
Database of Best Practice on Indigenous Knowledge.
UNESCO Register Very comprehensive Register of Best Practice on Indigenous Knowledge. For example, Traditional harvesting of Honey in Indonesia.
World Bank Indigenous Knowledge Page - a good starting-point.

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