Indigenous Information Network(IIN)
The initiative aims to revitalize indigenous knowledge and facilitate its transmission from the older generation to the young while combatting possible extinction and dormancy.
To contribute to revitalizing and perpetuating the traditional knowledge, including language and practices, for four indigenous communities in Kenya and Tanzania through creating awareness of the loss of language and traditional knowledge and drawing out the use and practices that will guide the best ways to transmit to the youth, conducting research to collect data at the local level and put in place mechanisms for mainstreaming indigenous knowledge transmission, and preservation, training to inform and develop materials, linking policies and other legal instruments that have been developed at the national level to ensure there are synergies and indigenous people youth and elders understand the need for these linkages.
