Who Gets To Digitize Whose Knowledge?

This document discusses issues around who has the right to digitize knowledge and how digitization can impact knowledge. It notes that while digitization makes information more easily shareable, it can also simplify and distort knowledge. Not all tacit knowledge can be explicitly documented and digitized, and even if possible, not all knowledge should be digitized. When digitizing knowledge, what is lost in translation? The document also discusses how certain indigenous knowledge is best kept within communities, as they have preserved it for thousands of years, and outsiders do not have the right or legitimacy to digitize and transform that knowledge.