Determining Requirements within an Indigenous Knowledge System of African Rural Communities Heike WinschiersTheophilus Polytechnic of Namibia Private Bag 13388 Windhoek, Namibia +264-61-2072168 Nicola J Bidwell Shilumbe ChivunoKuria Gereon Koch Kapuire heikew@polytechnic. edu.na CSIR Meraka Institute & Polytechnic of Namibia Polytechnic of Namibia School of ICT, Nelson Private Bag 13388 Private Bag 13388 Mandela Metropolitan Windhoek, Namibia Windhoek, Namibia University +264-61-2072057 +264-61-2072334 P.O. Box 395 schivuno@polytechnic gkapuire@polytechnic Pretoria, 0001, South Africa .edu.na .edu.na Nic.bidwell@gmail. com ABSTRACT Eliciting and analyzing requirements within knowledge systems, which fundamentally differ so far from technology supported systems represent particular challenges. African rural communities life is deeply rooted in an African Indigenous knowledge system manifested in their practices such as Traditional Medicine. We describe our endeavors to elicit requirements to design a system to support the accumulation and sharing of traditional local knowledge within two rural Herero communities in Namibia. We show how our method addressed various challenges in eliciting and depicting intangible principles arising because African communities do not dichotomize theoretical and practical know-how or privilege a science of abstraction and generalization. Ethnography provided insights into etiology, or causal interrelationships between social values, spiritual elements and everyday life. Participatory methods, involving youth and
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Determining requirements within an indigenous knowledge system of African rural communities
Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike; Bidwell, Nicola J.; Chivuno-Kuria, Shilumbe; Kapuire, Gereon Koch
Association for Computing Machinery — Oct 11, 2010
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