Hmm. I hadn't thought that's it, since that's a term I know from scholarly communication research. But you'd said it was a recognised issue in development work so maybe it is. I can't find references to it except in the scholarly communication sense.

Oh well.


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-------- Original message --------
From: Øyvind Eide <oyvind.eide@iln.uio.no>
Date: 2014-05-04 07:25 (GMT-07:00)
To: "O'Donnell, Dan" <daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca>
Cc: "globaloutlookdh-l, MailList" <globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca>
Subject: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Looking for a term


Dear Dan,

If I do not misremember completely is was indeed "knowledge transfer". However, often I do not know what I say, not to speak of remembering it afterwards.

Best,

Øyvind

On 4. mai 2014, at 02:12, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to remember a term that I heard Oyvind use recently to describe the situation when "experts from rich countries teach people in poor countries how to do things" (i.e. the "experts" set the agenda based on their own experience and assume that the knowledge direction is from rich to poor). This is a bad practice, even if it is done with good will.
>
> The term he used was something like knowledge transfer or translation (though neither of those are right). I'd never heard it before but it is apparently as well-known term in international work as something that people in the area need to be aware of and attempt to avoid.
>
> Does anybody know the term for this?
>
> -dan
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