First given as gifts to arriving explorers, it didn’t take long for colonizers to demand hammocks as tribute. In A Nutshell ...

Creating a compendium of modern inventions, the Renaissance artist Johannes Stradanus featured the printing press, the canon, the clock, and distillation. And then there was his drawing depicting the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to take full inventory of all indigenous inventions and innovations for possible financial assistance. Maryam ...

Introduction : definitions, terminology and the "invention of tradition" -- The "God controversy" in pre-Christian indigenous religions -- The debate over Io as the pre-Christian Māori supreme being - ...

At the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore at WIPO in Geneva, the South African Minister for Science and ...

The problem of "biopiracy"—the misappropriation and patenting for profit of Indigenous knowledge—has been on the rise for some time. So a global treaty aimed at protecting traditional knowledge and ...

Boyer, who is Ojibwe, builds robots that teach Indigenous languages. Danielle Boyer knew she was interested in robotics from a young age. But with limited learning resources -- a problem many Native ...

It is widely acknowledged that a key reason for Nigeria’s socio-economic underdevelopment is the country’s technological dependency, with indigenous inventions, innovations and research outcomes ...

When China dropped its indigenous IP requirements from central government procurement policies, foreign rights holders applauded. However, Dan Prud’homme warns that preferences for indigenous IP are ...

Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved a groundbreaking new treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on ...

Written by Isaac Drandic and directed by Raymond Blanco, the play features an all-First Nations cast, with Maurice Sailor as Kevin and Maci-Grace Thomson as Djirra. It will be launched at Bulmba-ja ...