On the 20th of December, Natural Justice and Borneo Conservancy entered into a Memorandum of Understanding relating to the Kinabalu Biocultural Law Project. The project will be undertaken in partnership with the Sabah Biodiversity Centre and will explore with a number of Dusun communities living around Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia) innovative ways of engaging with laws towards protecting their biological and cultural diversity. The project will build on the work undertaken by partners to the Projek Etnobotani Kinabalu (Kinabalu Ethnobotany Project) and a recent study on traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous peoples' and community conserved areas (some outputs of which are available online). The project will also benefit from input from Dr. Agnes Lee Agama (South East Asia Coordinator of the Global Diversity Foundation) acting in her personal capacity. Natural Justice looks forward to working with the communities and team on the project.L-R in the photo: Dorothy Lim, Lanash Thanda, Alice Mathew, and Daniel Doughty (Borneo Conservancy); Holly Shrumm and Harry Jonas (Natural Justice).
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Hi All,
I am a PhD candidate in faculty of computer sciences and IT, universiti malaysia sarawak UNIMAS). I do work with
ISITI-CoERI and we have 7 research sites in East and West Malaysian Indigenous communities(Bario, Long Lamai, Buayan and Larapan in East Malaysia)
My research focus is on processes oriented Indigenous Knowledge
Management and I have developed IK governance framework to support my
thesis. we tested the framework in Bario community and sketched a
ceremony "name changing ceremony" as case study on the base of our
framework. now we are moving towards designing and developing software system for Long Lamai (Penans) Plants and Botanical knowledge processes (as a case study). The community initiated the idea as they think that with changing life style the younger generation is losing the knowledge about herbs and plants in forest while they have good knowledge of using ICT system so the elders of the community could provide indigenous knowledge about plants and the younger generation can document it with the tools (ICT)
we (outsiders) are facilitating the whole process.
Do you have any activity in Sarawak? I would like to engage with you and to get your guidence and feedback about our project.
thanks and regards
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