**10. Conclusion**

Clearly, indigenous knowledge is integral to a cultural complex that also encompasses language, systems of classification, resource use practices, social interactions, ritual, and spirituality. The recognition that local and indigenous people have their own ecological understandings, conservation practices, and resource management goals has important implications as indigenous people are now recognized as essential partners in environmental management.

The paper has revealed directions, protocols, and framework for collaborative engagement between two different paradigms with regards to intangible benefits of previously untapped cultural heritage and implicitly held knowledge resources amongst indigenous communities. It has shed insights into how the socio-technical innovation model, which is a balanced ecosystem where technology is embedded into a social system as an integral knowledge weaving, provides a useful system framework to contextualize indigenous knowledge within contemporary problemsolving scenarios.

As highlighted in this paper, the need to create a playground for the exchange of implicitly held knowledge, in co-created models that preserve the local context and scenario, and yet at the same time not separated from life-learning situations holds the key to the symbiotic blending of knowledge.
