Manufacturing and consuming knowledge

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5017014
AutoresP T Zeleza (0000-0002-0737-1862, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume6
Fascículo4
Páginas293-303
Data de publicação1996-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0961452961000157904
OpenAlexW1970746897
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9

The article examines the problems facing African scholars and publishers, in the context of rapid developments in information technology and a deepening economic gulf between industrialised and Third World countries. Many of these problems, and conventional responses to them from libraries, publishers, and donors, are themselves a legacy of colonial relations, the most significant of which is the deepening dependence on Western forms of knowledge and systems to validate all forms of intellectual activity. Questioning the terms 'information-rich' and 'information-poor', the author stresses the need for Africans to develop the means to generate, value, and disseminate their own forms of knowledge

Colonialism · Dissemination · Indigenous · Information technology · Knowledge management · Political science · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Computer Science · History · ICT in Developing Communities · Law · Library Science and Administration · Publishing and Scholarly Communication