According to Prof Muthoni Masinde, a Kenyan born computer scientist, who created a mobile app, Information Technology, and Indigenous Knowledge (ITIKI), alerting farmers on drought via SMS, indigenous knowledge is sustainable, and the future.
Indigenous knowledge is that frog clocking near a farmer’s house, that tree flowering on the compound and the farmer’s cow running joyfully while on its way back from the river. Professor Muthoni Masinde says we have lost close to 50percent of that knowledge.
“For a number of years, the climate scientists overlooked that knowledge, but they have discovered it was a mistake” explains Prof Masinde “Indigenous knowledge is something the locals relate to and it’s a tool for adaptation, hence the urgent need to document it”.
