Traditional Knowledge/Indigenous Knowledge

International

• Comparative Study on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions (GRTKTCE)
• Copyright for Librarians: Module 8: Traditional Knowledge
• Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Treaty: Realising the Promise
• Government support for indigenous knowledge for sustainability in Southern Africa (2025)
• IFLA Statement on Indigenous Traditional Knowledge
• Indigenous Knowledge Systems in South Africa 2026
• WIPO Database of Contracts Related to Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources and Data
• WIPO Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge May 2024
  WIPO Documentation of Traditional Knowledge
• WIPO Documenting Traditional Knowledge – A Toolkit
• WIPO Frequently Asked Questions
• WIPO Glossary of Key Terms Related to Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions
• WIPO Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Portal
• WIPO Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge
• and Traditional Cultural Expressions (rev.2020)
• WIPO Presentations on Indigenous and Local Community Experiences
  WIPO Protect and Promote Your Culture (2017)
• WIPO Report on the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) – Decision (2025)
• WIPO Summary of the WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge (2024)  
• WIPO Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions & Genetic Resources Laws
• WIPO Traditional Knowledge Updates – Archive
• WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge

South Africa

• IK Act, (No 6 of 2019) – Presentation to the DTI Portfolio Committee
• National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act 2004
• Policy Framework for the Protection Of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Through the Intellectual Property System and the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill, 2008
• Protection, Promotion, Development and Management of Indigenous Knowledge Act No. 6 of 2019 (IKS Act)

Articles

• Decolonization of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in South Africa:
• Asking the Traditional Knowledge Question as a Reality Check
• Digitization of Indigenous knowledge systems in Africa: the case of South Africa’s National Recorded System (NRS)
• Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Sustainable Learning  In Rural South
• Africa
• Indigenous Knowledge Systems in South Africa 2026
• Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ Decolonial Struggle over Transplanted Western IP
• Information Systems and Digitization of Traditional Knowledge: Trends in Cultural Heritage and Memory Institutions and the WIPO Genetic Resources Treaty
• Listening for the Voices: Connecting Traditional Knowledge and Conservation in South Africa
• National Heritage Council Act, No. 11 of 1999 – G19961
• Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge
• Protection of Traditional Knowledge in South Africa: Does the ‘Commons’ Provide a Solution? (2011)
• The WIPO Treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge: A Negotiating, Contextual and Conceptual Appraisal
• Traditional Health Practitioners Act, No. 22 of 2007 – G30660
• Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions in South Africa
• Traditional Knowledge and the Public Domain
• Transmission of indigenous knowledge systems under changing landscapes within the Vhavenda community, South Africa (2024)