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CIKOD & KTI signed Memorandum of Understanding
On June 18, 2024, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) in Ghana and the Knowledge Technology and Innovation (KIT) group at WUR. Daniel Banuoku (Deputy Executive Director of CIKOD) signed on behalf of CIKOD, and Prof. Anita Hardon signed on behalf of KTI. The MOU aims to consolidate collaboration on research and educational activities on common themes of interest such as indigenous knowledge, transdisciplinarity, agroecology, indigenous food systems, community organizational development, and African philosophy.
Over the past years, Bern Guri & Daniel Banuoku (CIKOD) together with Birgit Boogaard & David Ludwig (KTI) initiated and facilitated this collaboration. The MoU aims to strengthen the African Learning Institute (ALI) as part of CIKOD. ALI is an educational space where research and practices meet, by looking at and working with issues of endogenous development and resilient communities. The ALI brings together researchers, development practitioners, students and communities through transdisciplinary interventions with the aim to decolonize minds of policymakers, practitioners, academics, students and communities - in both academic and social contexts. ALI links closely with the focus of KTI research and education on transdisciplinarity, indigenous knowledge, action-research, and African philosophy. KTI and CIKOD-ALI complement each other in the sense that CIKOD-ALI brings in practice on the ground in Ghana, while KTI brings in international research.