This brief report was written at the end of 2005 and the beginning of 2006 for Te Puni Kōkiri-Ministry of Māori Development. Its purpose was to provide some discussion an ideas about the term 'traditional knowledge'. A copy of this report is available
here.
The contents of the report are as follows:
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Traditional Knowledge – definition and value
2.1 Definition
2.2 Value
3.0 Preferred Terms
3.1 Indigenous Knowledge
3.2 Mātauranga Māori
4.0 Use of Traditional Knowledge
4.1 Expressed
4.2 Acquired and Transferred
4.3 Protected and Maintained
5.0 Roles
6.0 Government
6.1 A Proposal