摘要：their own IP protocols, continue to foster a mutually-
beneficial working relationship between the community
and the museum and further develop links established
between the community, the museum and the national IP
offices in Kenya. Lying at the interface between the
safeguarding of living heritage and its legal protection, the
programme seeks to advance a range of valuable policy
goals - promoting cultural diversity, fostering economic
development, using culture as a communications tool in
development, bridging the ‘digital divide’, promoting
responsible tourism and creating local cultural content.
Early results from evaluation of the pilot are encouraging,
and WIPO and its partners have received several requests
from other communities and museums and archives to
participate in such a programme. However, something so
ambitious presents many challenges and it remains an
unpredictable cultural and legal experiment. This article
will describe how and why the programme was conceived,
its various objectives, the challenges, expected results and
lessons learned so far.
Culture is a tool for development as well as part of the
process of development. Taking this proposition as its
starting point, WIPO’s Creative Heritage Project provides
practical training to local communities and museums and
archives in developing countries on recording, digitising
and disseminating their creative cultural expressions and
in managing IP issues.
In partnership with the American Folklife Center/Library
of Congress and the Center for Documentary Studies at
Duke University, WIPO ran a pilot training programme for
the Maasai community of Laikipia, Kenya and the National
Museums of Kenya in September 2008. The intensive,
hands-on curriculum included project planning, research
ethics, photography, sound and audio-visual recording
techniques, digital archiving methods and database and
website development. In cooperation with the US
Copyright Office, WIPO staff provided the IP component of
the training. WIPO will purchase a basic kit of recording
equipment and knowledge management software for the
community, help the community and museum to develop
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