The Politics of Knowledge Economy and Sustainability of Tribal Knowledge and Health in India

Abstract

With globalization, developing countries have been adopting the model of knowledge economy with its flagship features standardized patents and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This model is supposed to deliver growth and equity through standardized patents and through market corrections of asymmetrical power between the corporations and general public via CSR. However, under this model, distributional equity has been declining. Instead of knowledge increasing and creating more equity, the traditional health-knowledge of tribal people (mostly poor) in India is being denuded along with innovation. This has been due to bio-piracy by multinational corporations. In addition, insensitive state policies that focus on growth policies at the expense of equity have exacerbated the situation. Under such circumstances, the health situation of tribal people is becoming dire. The authors argue that land redistribution and customized Intellectual Property rights (IPR) for communities as a whole may be the way forward provided there is political will.

Socially Good AI Contributions for the Implementation of Sustainable Development in Mountain Communities Through an Inclusive Student-Engaged Learning Model

“…By ensuring that mountainous communities can participate on a more equal playing field with flatlands-based urbanized and metropolitan areas through particular education with and on AI, we can enable comprehensive discourses on how best to manage regional resource collection and distribution while preventing substantial "brain drain" to areas of higher population density (Bausch et al 2014;Khan and Somuncu 2019;Bürgin and Mayer 2020). Not only does this enable mountainous communities to gain income from jobs created within their unique livelihoods that would otherwise be sourced into other communities, but it also prevents the loss of workers skilled in agriculture, forestry, mining, and other mountain-specific industries that cannot always be found in non-mountainous regions, and locally related native population practices that can be better for sustainable living in the long term (Mukhopadhyay et al 2020;Silversmith 2021;Spoon et al 2021).…”