Brainstorming Indigenous Knowledge

• Indigenous people have right to live in their own state of origin, if they want
• They have vast treasure of knowledge that could be used to combat some of the global problems such as global warming, the effect of global economic crisis in developing nations, sustainable development, pollution, disaster, diseases, etc.
• Indigenous people are found in all parts of the world. In cities the knowledge has been overshadowed and in villages such knowledges have become passive due to the lack of preservation, promotion and recognition.
• All modern knowledge and skill might have come from indigenous epistemology, it needs more rigorous researches to find the link. It will certainly promote indigenous knowledge and provides an impetus to the indigenous people further advance their knowledge and skill
• One of the best means of achieving Millennium Development Goals is promoting indigenous knowledge
• Indigenous knowledge and skills can be included in school and college curriculum. It will make learning more meaningful and productive. The world divided into two strata: developed and developing will end as both of them will be advancing in their own ways.
• One of the issues related to the promotion of indigenous knowledge is supporting indigenous knowledge with technology. It will create a kind of fusion between western and eastern epistemology, ending the long standing notion of knowledge producer and knowledge receiver. Technological promotion in indigenous knowledge will enable eastern world as a knowledge producer.
• All developing countries including Nepal should develop indigenous education as one of the subjects in school and university curricula.