knowledge society in africa

... demanding unflinching endurance of pain were espe- cially prominent among pastoralists. So was the custom, shown by linguistic evidence to have ancient Cushitic origins, of forming young initiates into ... southern Africa, but P1: RNK 0521864381c06 CUNY780B-African 978 0 521 68297 8 May 15, 2007 15:50 102 africans: the history of a continent 7.Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa. P1: ... kinship, by which each new incumbent of an office inherited his predecessor’s total social personality, including all his kinship relations, so that if a king’s son created a chiefdom it remained...

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... states among the indigenous Voltaic-speaking peoples, beginning with the Mamprussi and Dagomba kingdoms in the late fourteenth or fifteenth cen- tury and continuing with the Mossi kingdoms of Wagadugu ... as lineage property–aprinciple that extended equally to hunting or the playing of par- ticular musical instruments. Yoruba crafts were generally, but not necessarily, hereditary in certain lineages, ... system celebrated in the Kano chronicle involved the unification of microstates into kingdoms, the building of walled capital towns like Kano and Katsina, the appointment of titled administrators (often on...

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... washing up. Beside the evidences of American informality discussed above in their greeting, in welcoming guests or in behaving as a guest, we have seen many informal practices in their dressing ... the world walking “lollingly in bare feet, beating tangled vines and bushes with long sticks” (Schorer, p.885), twitting each other in a swimming hole in the woods after playing truant from ... culture owing to their hunting, and farming origin supported by developed industry. Within the American society, there are many races such as white, black or African-American, American Indian...

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... understood independently. This even applies within the peninsulas, especially in the Iberian Peninsula. OIS 3, in particular, is complex with moments of expansion of Mediterranean taxa in Africa ... forest intrusions during warm and wet climate; <S, steppe intrusions during cold and arid climate; T V, tundra intrusions during cold and arid climate. The significance of these changes was in ... wood- land, especially in the north-west, during interglacials. The African picture was dominated by rain–arid cycles with swift vegetation responses. The northward and southward shifts in the belts of...

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... organizational learning: Representing and maintaining knowledge in an experience base”, in Proc. Tenth Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’98, 1998. 44. T. Dingsøyr, “A ... Systems in the UK has developed an “Engineering Process Improvement Framework”, which includes a repository for knowledge sharing [62]. The engineering knowledge base contains information divided into ... Markkula, Knowledge management in software engineering projects”, in Proc. Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’99, 1999, pp. 20–27. 65. P. Br¨ossler, “Knowledge...

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... vòng chất dinh dưỡng, sự ngưng kết chất nitơ, quản lý sâu bệnh thống nhất v.v.), và đặc biệt nó sử dụng tốt hơn tri thức và kỹ năng của người nông dân vì vậy tăng cường sự tự tin và khả năng ... công việc kinh tế và việc nhà tạo ra gánh nặng cho họ, và (c) luật lệ và phong tục không cho phép người phụ nữ tiếp cận tới đất đai, tín dụng, đầu vào, việc làm, giáo dục, thông tin hay y tế. ... tập cá nhân và xã hội. Thay đổi kĩ thuật luôn là một quá trình phức tạp với các yếu tố sinh-lý và kinh tế - xã hội. Đó không chỉ là việc giới thiệu những khía cạnh mới của kĩ thuật mà còn...

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... with a systematic process of creating, maintaining, employing, sharing and renewing knowledge. Knowledge Management Framework in Systems Point of View Viewing knowledge management as a man- made ... and Data Information Knowledge Data Processing: Organizing, storing, calculating, Retrieving, Reporting Information Processing: Reforming, Quantification, Qualification, Clustering, learning, ... Knowl- edge-Based Systems, Computers in Industry, Expert Systems, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Log istic Information Man- agement, Information & Management,...

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... impact of knowledge projects in SMEs Knowledge and Process Management CASE STUDY Knowledge Management in Small Firms 7 of the role of knowledge in business and the basic principles of a knowledge ... recognizes and incorporates the current thinking and priorities in the knowledge project.It seems inappropriate to ‘hijack’ the agendas and momentum in a business and attempt to ‘railroad in a knowledge ... ‘co-producers’ in SME is more negotiable than the offerings of larger businesses. In considering knowledge pro- jects, large businesses place the primary emphasis upon their internal knowledge flows....

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... determinants. This goes hand in hand with Africa s accelerated integration into a globalised economy, leading not only to more frequent interactions, but also to increasingly varied interests ... case in Dar es Salaam (Chapter 12) details the urban planning process and the roles of different actors in each interface, and explores sustainability indicators in the planning process to gain ... identified as necessary in ensuring future urban sustainability. Regional scopes of land conflicts and changing norms By pitting the ongoing land crises in several African countries against a range of...

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... 3. Impoverishing a Continent: The World Bank and IMF in Africa 1 Impoverishing a Continent: The World Bank and the IMF in Africa By Asad Ismi ISBN 0-88627-373-0 July 2004 Impoverishing a Continent: ... Union, MiningWatch Canada, the Halifax Initiative Coa- lition and the NGO Working Group on the EDC. His reports include the ground-breaking Profiting from Repression: Canadian Investment in and ... professionals.” 25 The Reagan Administration came into office in 1980 determined to discipline an increasingly independent Third World and make it serve U.S. economic interests. The 1950-1980 era...

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... made. Seeking collaboration with the organisations running these existing initiatives and asking them what kind of support they or their users require may be one point of departure for international ... a variety of settings and countries around the globe, including the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, the winter storms in Washington D.C. and the recent earth quakes in New Zealand and ... advocacy. In Sokari Ekine (Ed.): SMS uprising. Mobile phone activism in Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Pambazuka Press, pp. 86–104. Banda, Fackson (2010): Citizen journalism & democracy in Africa. ...

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... coordinating role in facilitating information sharing, with other actors remaining on the periphery. However, that analysis also shows the important role other actors play in relaying information ... actors within the network, indicating that its reach beyond primary points of contact is relatively low. Other influential actors, as indicated by high information sending and receiving means ... Quarantine Services and Technical Services have very high means for both information sending and receiving, and high levels of closeness and betweenness, indicating influential roles in information...

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... culled. No information is available on the costs of culling, diagnostic testing of samples, cleaning and disinfection, and other administrative costs (Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008). Regarding the ... women should also be encouraged to be actively involved in training programs and in dissemination of information regarding biosecurity technologies. Finally, our results have implications for other ... flu in Nigeria – a dynamic CGE model analysis. DFID-funded project for Controlling Avian Flu and Protecting People’s Livelihoods in Africa/ Indonesia. HPAI Research Brief 15. Washington, DC: International...

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... engage in more risky behavior than before. This can in theory result in a net increase in their infection risk. Indeed, in the ANRS study, most indicators of sexual risk behavior were higher in ... social desirability bias is increasing—people are becoming less willing to admit to engaging in high risk behaviors, even those occurring in the past. 36 If this is affecting responses to age at ... successful both in achieving very high rates of condom use in the targeted populations and in bringing down infection rates in these populations. These successes, however, occurred in contexts...

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