An approach to the concept of social appropriation of knowledge: from the traditional knowledge of Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities

Abstract

In different local landscapes, both national and international; the importance of implementing strategies that boost social appropriation of the scientific and technological knowledge to the interior of the societies, in order to generate processes continuous of social learning, as well as to improve the economic development and the competitiveness of the countries. Nevertheless, to speak of social appropriation of the knowledge in many spaces tends to be confused with the distraction of the knowledge, that is to say, that stops some social groups the concept has been distorted to such point to indicate to the loss of his knowledge by the indiscriminate spreading that supposes the mass use of knowledge.

Although the different organizations taking care of this subject have indicated the importance of the participation of different groups from interest of the civil society and the re-definition of the relation between the doers and the beneficiaries of knowledge itself, that seems the recognition remains in the paper without greater importance. That is why, when reviewing social appropriation knowledge concepts from its relation with the traditional knowledge on communities meaning how the model analysis such as the triple helix: university, industry and government explains the dyna-mics that is weaved around the benefits that the popularized of the knowledge generates and the importance that the recognition has with the participant communities during the process.