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Feedback on the IK Initiative
March 7, 2001
....As a local community, we
use indigenous methods ... for the treatment of diseases.
Some of these methods ... do not have any dosage that at times
causes harm during our treatment; ...we don't have any defined
method of preparation and dosage. We don't also know the side-effects
which some of these herbs have.... science can help us bring
to light medicinal plants, which are effective and safe for
incorporation into formal health care system. This is why
we are requesting for free books on herbs, vegetables and
fruits. This will help us develop new methods of preparation
and dosage. Please, if you have any means to help or advise
us we will be very grateful...
Herbs for a Healthy Living,Common
Initiative Group
c/o Mr. Neba Markanthony
Mesires - I.R.A.D.
P.M.B. 25
Ekona - Buea
Cameroon
February 22, 2001
I write on behalf of Government
Publications at the University of Washington Libraries. Can
your office provide our library with print copies of the following
issues of _IK Notes_:
No.1-2, 4-7, 14-22, 24, 28-29....
Our address is:
Government Publications
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA 98195-2900 USA
February 17, 2001
I
received a copy of IK notes entitled "Senegalese Women
remake their culture" ... I am using the article for
a graduate paper
concerning literacy for women in Mali...
Rebecca
S. Miller
February
2, 2001
I read a copy of IK Notes from a friend and found it to be
very informative and educative.Could you kindly include me
in your mailing list...
John
Mairafi Ahmadu
Nigerian Universities Network (NUNet) Project
National Universities Commission
Maitama District
PMB 237 Garki GPO
Abuja - FCT
Nigeria
January 2, 2001
..I have been referred to
you by ... Dr. Miller (University for Development Studies)
and Dr. Bonsu (Cape Coast University) in Ghana and I have
been working together to develop a collaborative concept in
indigenous knowledge research and extension in Ghana. ..
Christine Jost, DVM
International Programs/Center for Conservation Medicine
Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine
December 12, 2000
Can you please send me some
information and relevant publications on Indigenous Knowledge,
and also put me on the circulation list for IK Notes.
I am employed as a Project
Specialist (Infrastructure) by the Community Action Project,
a component of the Government of Zimbabwe's Poverty Alleviation
Action Programme.
Regards,
IAN C. MASHINGAIDZE
P. O. Box BE 1275
Belvedere
Harare
ZIMBABWE
November 11, 2000
I am in the process of forming
a workshop for a scientific conference on indigenous knowledge
and ecosystem management. Although the meeting is a North
American one, the topic of including indigenous knowledge
and concerns in resource management, especially when indigenous
properties and sacred sites are affected, is an important
one... I need a speaker who can talk about integrating science
and traditional knowledge in development and/or land mangement.
The workshop is not being held until July 2001, so there is
plenty of time to discuss this topic. However, I need to get
my outline into the organizers by December 15.
Thank you for your help.
Kheryn Klubnikin
Ecology Staff Assistant
Office of the Deputy Director
Research & Development
USDA Forest Service
Washington, DC
October 22, 2000
I'm interested in the English
version of the IK Newsletter If it is possible to read a electronical
copy as Word document then I wish to recive that.
Salomon Emanuels
Paramaribo - Suriname
South America
salomon@sr.net
September 29, 2000
.. I am preparing a research
trip to Nigeria. During that travel I hope to record various
storytelling sessions in a digital form...
I am wondering to know more
about your interest in Griots and Oral Traditions. I will
be very happy also if I can contribute to your projects. Also
could you help me to get some good contacts in Nigeria?
...
Michal Malinowski
Storyteller Museum
Poland
August 13, 2000
The title of the book I am
working on is "Understanding African Systems".
I will send an on-line contribution
to your e-mail address as soon as possible.
Thank you for giving me the
chance to contribute to the IK program and good luck with
your important work.
Sincerley
Ali H. Liban
July 5th, 2000
Reiner,
Your work is interesting and
we would be happy to be updated as you proceed.
Lars Otto Naess
FAO, Tanzania
June 26th, 2000
Please, do not hesitate to
let me know if I myself and/or my webpage could be more useful
in the performance of your great "Indigenous Knowledge for
Development" program/pages.
Sincerely,
Ataur Rahman
Department of Geography
Faculty of Environmental Studies
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Webpage: http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u/marahman/
June 12, 2000
Congratulations on the recent publications about the use of
local languages, I
am very happy to see this, and it helps me with my clients.
I am working on several west african countries on education,
and in particular ... (on) education reform in Cape Verde,
that I belief would provide important lessons
for other countries in the region...
Adriana
Jaramillo
Education Specialist
World Bank
May 31st, 2000
Je suis heureux de vous informer
que la CEDEAO est interessee par votre projet et est prete
à collaborer avec le "Indigenous Knowledge for Development
Program" de la region Afrique de la Banque mondiale pour la
réalisation dudit projet de sensibilisation des populations
locales d'Afrique de l'Ouest concernant le VIH-SIDA, en utilisant
des moyens de communication traditionnels.
ECOWAS
Drug Control Unit
May, 26th 2000
... you should know that someone
out there finds your stuff interesting and useful and try
to promote it to other as well.
Best regards
Liv Ellingsen, Librarian
Noragric http://www.nlh.no/noragric/
April 2000
Sa liggey rafet na. Nu ngilay
gerem bu baax. Li di na yok jeetay bi te yombal waxtan ak
wecco xalat su nu biir ak su digaante
ak yenen nu rew. Diaradieuf bou bare bare. Mbokku sunugal
sargal na la.
Xi
jaam. Ousmane
"You
are doing a good job. We thank you for that.
This will ease our discussion and facilitate the exchange
of ideas among us and other countries. Thank you very much.
Signed,
All the people from Senegal.
With
Peace."
April. 2nd, 2000
I am thrilled to hear that
you will have Indigenous Knowledge in Wolof on the internet
and would very much like the address. Also how wonderful that
the Malicounda story will be in the first issue!
Molly Melching
TOSTAN, NGO
Dakar
Senegal
April 19, 2000
Bonjour Monsieur Woytek,
J'ai beaucoup apprécié votre
contribution en wolof sur le site de la banque mondiale. Je
voulais juste vous dire qu'il ya une dame sénégalaise, Adja
Khady Diop, agée de 78 qui a écrit un livre en wolof, portant
le titre "Le Sénégal d'hier et ses traditions". Khady Diop
qui habite à Dagana, au nord du Sénégal a écrit cet très interessant
livre dans les années 80, et n'a pu faute de moyens à ce jour
imprimer que 500 exemplaires qui ont tous été vendus. Elle
a écrit plus tard un livre sur les jeux traditionnels sénégalais,
le seul à ce jour sur un thème pareil, et jusqu'à présent
le livre n'a pas encore été publié, comme toujours faute de
moyens.
Peut être que vous pourriez
vous procurer à travers les archives culturelles du Sénégal
un exemplaire du premier livre pour vous faire une idée du
travail remarquable de cette dame qui n'a jamais été à l'école
francaise et qui donne des cours d'aphabétisation en Wolof
dans son quartier, Santhiaba, à Dagana. Ce serait vraiment
superbe si la banque mondiale pouvait aider des personnes
pareilles à divulguer leurs savoirs.
Cordialement
El Hadji Djibril Diop
Stutgart
April 14, 2000
(in wolof, from Senegal)
Sa liggey rafet na. Nu ngilay
gerem bu baax.
Li di na yok jeetay bi te yombal waxtan ak wecco xalat su
nu biir ak su digaante ak yenen nu rew.
Diaradieuf bou bare bare. Mbokku sunugal sargal na la.
Xi jaam.
Ousmane
June 15, 1999
Jon
Rouse , University of Sussex, UK, has kindly contributed
a paper on "Globalisation of
Indigenous Knowledge. Contradiction or the Way Forward?",
discussing the new wave of interest in creating international
resource centres and databases of information on indigenous
practices and technologies. The paper argues for an open access
of IK databases and for the development of an approach that
increases rural people's awareness of their valuable knowledge,
The paper includes an extensive bibliography on the subject.
For feedback please contact the author directly.
April 27, 1999
You might look it (list of
publications) over for any publications that might prove of
interest. And tomorrow, I am putting into the mail a summary
article on ethnoveterinary medicine ...
Constance M. McCorkle
Social Anthropologist, Ethnoveterinary Studies,
Alexandria, USA
April, 22 1999
I was very delighted to peruse
the website site you've put together on IK. It sure gives
IK the attention it deserves and provides a useful avenue
for timely information dissemination and exchange. I'm also
very honored to have my article among the reference material
available in your database... I'll also be grateful if you
can include me in your mailing list for the IK Notes...I am
also working on establishing a database for specific ethnoveterinary
treatments.
Ngeh
J. Toyang
National
Center for the Development of Natural Products
School of Pharmacy
University of Mississippi, USA
April 2, 1999
This is, first of all, a note
of appreciation for sending me Findings and IK Notes which
I find most informative and helpful.
Heinrich K.F. Hoffmann, Marburg,
Germany.
March 24, 1999
I've just received four very
interesting notes in your new series. I would very much like
to continue receiving them. Many thanks and congratulations.
Theodore Trefon, Universite
Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
March 23, 1999
What a very interesting report
on literacy-and-empowered-action in Nwodua! (IK-Notes 7).
I run the Adult
Outreach Education Thematic Group ...
preparing a paper on the 'fulcrum' effects of education-through-literacy.
So the Nwodua experience is altogether germane to our concerns.
John Oxenham, World Bank
March 22, 1999
The IK Web site is doing a
nice job!
Nancy Hafkin (Development
Informations Services Division) UNECA
March 15, 1999
The Women's Unit of the OAU
has been privileged to receive IK Notes Issues No.3. We found
the information contained therein most informative, very pertinent
to our work, as well as facilitative of our mandate. We would,
therefore, be most grateful if you could put us on your mailing
list, so that we are kept informed of such innovative and
successful inititiatives.
Dr. Mary Maboreke, Chief Women's
Unit, OAU
March, 7, 1999
I am contacting you because
of your work in relation to IK. I have read with interest
the various documents ... and I believe that there is substantial
overlap between the objectives and programs of this initiative
and my own work, and I would like to suggest that we ... explore
these overlaps. TKI facilitates the creation of knowledge
resource centers in emerging economies -- each resource center
built around a specific industrial sector -- and consisting
of a library (print and digital) plus facilities for education,
training, and research.
Bill Kramer
The Knowledge Initiative
March 5, 1999
I read with interest the article
in your latest issue, IK Notes, on the Village Bankers: The
experience of Fandene (Senegal). It endorses what some of
us have argued all the while that the fundamentals exist in
our villages in Africa to broaden developments in all its
facets. What is missing is leadership. I hope this article
will provide some lessons in the Bank's efforts at micro-lending
in a number of IDA countries in Africa and Asia.
However, one theme in the article
disturbed me a lot. It is the authors description of traditional
African region as "animist". This word and the concept it
carries is one of the cruel hoaxes played on traditional indigenous
religious beliefs (for want of a better description) all over
the world by missionaries out to convert them to Christianity.
The fact that the research was done by Senegalese researchers
still underlines and underpins the fact that this hoax has
gained credibility even among indigenous people.
Ernest Ako-Adjei
World Bank
March 3, 1999
Thank you for including the
Aga Khan Foundation in your distribution of IK Notes. I find
them very useful and often make further copies for AKF's Education
Programme Officers in East Africa and South Asia.
Jeremy Greenland, Director
of Education Programmes
Aga Khan Foundation,
Switzerland
February 16, 1999
Would you please send to me
the above mentioned book ("Senegalese women remake their culture")...
I am a Program Officer in World Vision Australia responsible
for program design and monitoring in West Africa including
Senegal.
Gilbert Kamanga
World Vision Australia
February 12, 1999
I hope that we can participate
in your initiative.
John D. Liu, Director
The Environmental Education Television
Project for China (EETPC)
China-Japan Friendship Environmental Protection Centre
Beijing, China
February 8, 1999
I would like to contribute
to the database. Having looked through the six issues of IK
Notes I was thinking that it might be a good place to raise
awareness about indigenous agroforestry systems in Uganda
and the work ICRAF and
the Ugandan Forestry Research Institute is doing.
Flemming
Nielsen
Associate Researcher Wageningen University, NL
February 4, 1999
I have been receiving the IK
notes for the past month and am impressed.... I am interested
in promoting IK in our work in Bangladesh, specially in light
of arsenic contamination of ground water sources in the rural
areas of Bangladesh. IK would be of great help to us in determining
alternate water sources.
Babar Kabir Country Sector
Leader, World Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh
February 1, 1999
I have received a copy of
an article entitled "Senegalese women remake their culture"about
female circumcision. I would be interested in publishing it
in our magazine.... ,
Rebecca Teclemariam-Mesbah
Connections, Editor Vrouwenberaad
Ontwikkelingssamenwerking
January 29, 1999
The subject of IK in development
projects is of particular interest to us, and we are always
eager to hear of new examples and ideas in this area….Several
of our program managers …discuss ways of further implementing
IK into their program activities…..We are now looking at ways
of contributing relevant project examples to the database.
AVSCInternational,
New York
January 26, 1999
I kindly request you for more
detailed information on indigenous knowledge and the role
and activities of your centre which I considered to be of
a paramount importance to further deepening of my research
topic.
Wolde-Selassie Abbute
Ph.D. Student of Social Anthropology at the University of
Göttingen
January 19, 1999
IK notes number 4contains an
excellent description of material useful for several of my
classes. Please send me copies of numbers 1-3. Also please
be sure that my name is on the IK Notes permanent mailing
list.
Edwin S. Segal
Department
of Anthropology
University of Louisville
January 14, 1999
We are happy to learn that
The World Bank has started to promote the issue. It is very
encouraging….I am willing to contribute in any activity you
may plan to undertake in the future.
Ernest Rukangira
Environmental
Liaison Centre International , Nairobi (ELCI)
January 5, 1999
I have received the brochure,
thank you very much. It's a really interesting initiative
Philippa Haden
Overseas
Development Institute (ODI)
December 7, 1998
I have found the first 2 issues
of IK Notes to be quite fascinating.
Debbi
Schaubman
Michigan State University
November 25, 1998
I would like to inquire about
the possibility of our project, the Southern African Development
Cultural and Communication Network (SADECCON), participating.
I would like to inquire about participating.
S. Mukasa, SADECCON
November 9, 1998
Very encouraging and fully
in line with our corporate goals and strategy.
Caio Koch-Weser,
Former Managing Director, World Bank
IK Notes is excellent.
Sudhirendar Sharma,
UNDP-WB Water & Sanitation
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