WIPO Cultural Documentation, Archiving and Intellectual Property Management Training Program A Community Experience

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WIPO Cultural Documentation, Archiving and
Intellectual Property Management Training
ProgramA Community Experience
Conference on Building Partnership for Mobilizing
Resources for IP and Development, November 5 and
6, 2009

• Ann Sintoyia Tome
• Maasai Cultural Heritage Foundation

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1. Background Information
2. Pilot Training Program
3. Challenges

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Background Information

• 2006 Visit by WIPO and ILO to the community
  the development of a partnership
• 2007 Internship by one of the community members
• 2008 Launch of the pilot training program
• 2009 Phase II of the pilot training program
  revisit by WIPO to the community

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WIPO Pilot Training Program
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WIPO Pilot Training Program

• Developed as a community-led initiative
• Hands-on curriculum
• Project planning, photography, sound and
  audio-visual recording techniques
• IP management developing best practices
• WIPO purchased a basic set of documentation
  equipment for the community

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WIPO Pilot Training Program
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WIPO Pilot Training Program
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Challenges

• The use of IP tools is important to make
  informed decisions, manage and regulate access to
  and use of the cultural heritage of the
  indigenous and local communities
• Challenges
• Need to raise awareness among community members
  on the functioning of the IP system
• Need to develop and put into practice communal IP
  policies and protocols when documenting our TK
  and TCEs
• Need to further develop linkages between the
  community, national cultural institutions and
  national IP offices
• The community has taken a step of developing a
  trade mark which will help in identifying
  authentic maasai work especially beadwork and
  needs assistance on the legal issues involved.
• There is also the need to document traditional
  work as now everyone is moving towards imroved
  designs that are more apealing to the global
  market.

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Challenges

• Traditional knowledge and traditional cultural
  expressions are important for the economic and
  sustainable development of indigenous and local
  communities
• Challenges
• Need for funding and partnerships
• To meet the objectives we have established as a
  community and
• To meet the interest of many other communities
  around the world to participate in the WIPO
  training program

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THANK YOU !