Monthly Archives: August 2009

Current Status and Lessons Learned

Posted on August 10, 2009 by tkproject

At the time of finalizing this text we are on a good way to reach most of the goals suggested in the project plan: A in depth literature research was done by all members of the group and a summary … Continue reading →

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Creation of a Decision Support System (DSS)

Posted on August 10, 2009 by tkproject

General overview Decision support systems are (usually) computerized information systems to support decision making. According to Langefors (1973) an information system is a technological system to store data and draw conclusions from this data. DDS have evolved from research on … Continue reading →

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Objectives [final version]

Posted on August 10, 2009 by tkproject

(updated 24.09.2009) We finally redefined the objectives for our project in the course of the research for a sound definition of Traditional Knowledge. These new objectives are based on the final Problem statement and Hypothesis and displace our initial objectives … Continue reading →

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New version of our definition of Traditional Knowledge

Posted on August 8, 2009 by tkproject

The new version of our definition of Traditional Knowledge is online by now. Check the new version under http://tk.noblogs.org/post/2009/08/08/definition-of-traditional-knowledge-new-version and the old outdated version under http://tk.noblogs.org/post/2009/05/03/our-definition-of-traditional-knowledge

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Definition of Traditional Knowledge [new version]

Posted on August 8, 2009 by tkproject

Introduction Many terms and definitions exist for what we call Traditional Knowledge (TK) in our semester project, among them are Indigenous Knowledge, Local Knowledge or Farmers’ Knowledge. Each of them are addressing different aspects (El Beer, 2007) but are also … Continue reading →

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Livesign and updates

Posted on August 8, 2009 by tkproject

It has been a long time since we updated our blog. This was partly our own fault but now we have some updates related to the proress and aim of our project. Iniitialy we thought to conduct (literature) research about … Continue reading →

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