Manufacturing and consuming knowledge

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5017014
AutoresP T Zeleza (0000-0002-0737-1862, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen6
Número4
Páginas293-303
Fecha de publicación1996-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0961452961000157904
OpenAlexW1970746897
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

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