Protecting Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Through a Holistic Principle-Based Approach

Protecting Indigenous Knowledge

The controversies surrounding intellectual property protection are most obvious when it comes to protecting indigenous knowledge. The firmly entrenched patenting laws in the developed world provide recognition and economic monopoly to individual inventors. Consequently, large and small companies have been able to appropriate the economic benefits from the technological knowledge protected throu...

TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS Protecting and Respecting Indigenous Knowledge and Medicine

Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge

S I D E 1 – C a S E S T U D I E S 1 C h i n a C a s e S t u d y P a r t i c i p a t o r y M a i z e B r e e d i n g & P r o t e c t i o n o f F a r m e r s ’ R i g h t s 2 I n d i a C a s e S t u d y P r o t e c t i n g L e p c h a & L i m b u s F a r m e r s ’ R i g h t s 3 I n d i a C a s e S t u d y – P r o t e c t i n g Y a n a d i H e a l e r s ’ R i g h t...

A Holistic Approach Based on MCDM for Solving Location Problems

Location decision is an integral part of organizational strategies involving many factorsthat may be conflicting in nature. This paper presents a holistic approach of the multi-criteria decisionmaking (MCDM) methodology to select the optimal location(s), which fits best for both investors andmanagers. A case study is also provided to illustrate the application of the proposed holistic approach....

Evidence of traditional knowledge loss among a contemporary indigenous society.

As biological and linguistic diversity, the world's cultural diversity is on decline. However, to date there are no estimates of the rate at which the specific cultural traits of a group disappear, mainly because we lack empirical data to assess how the cultural traits of a given population change over time. Here we estimate changes in cultural traits associated to the traditional knowledge of ...