- Title
- Challenges and Opportunities of Preserving African Indigenous Knowledge Using Digital Technologies: The Case of Bogwera
- Creator
- Aiseng, Kealeboga
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455424
- Identifier
- vital:75429
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781668470244
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7024-4.ch007
- Description
- Most indigenous knowledge systems, practices, and values disappear due to the influence of technology, human migrations, climate change, globalization, death, memory loss, and civilization. Therefore, indigenous knowledge systems will disappear if they are no longer used. This is because many traditional practices and activities within indigenous knowledge systems that have been used are essential coping and living strategies and are now in danger of disappearing. The chapter investigates how social web technologies, social media platforms, and online video tools can digitize, share, and preserve indigenous knowledge for the current generations that need to be more knowledgeable about these systems and future generations. With the example of bogwera, the chapter studies the role that digital technologies can play in protecting and preserving indigenous knowledge systems in the Taung community in North West, South Africa.
- Format
- 18 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- IGI Global
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Aiseng, K., 2023. Challenges and Opportunities of Preserving African Indigenous Knowledge Using Digital Technologies: The Case of Bogwera. Digital Preservation and Documentation of Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems, pp.123-141
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
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