The seminar is organized under the auspices of the Northern Sustainable Development Forum in Yakutsk, and can be attended both offline and online.
Initiated by the “Digitalization of the Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of the Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic” Arctic Council SDWG project and inspired by the Arctic Council Permanent Participants, the seminar is a platform to discuss the protection of the intellectual property rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Peoples’ representatives and organizations, scientific and educational organizations collecting and documenting traditional knowledge, intellectual property experts, and Indigenous youth are invited to participate in the discussion.Mr. Nikolay Korchunov, Ambassador at Large for the Arctic Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia, Senior Arctic Official of the Russian Federation to the Arctic Council, will open the seminar.
The seminar is organized by the Russian Chairmanship of the Arctic Council, Association of World Reindeer Herders, International Center for Reindeer Husbandry, Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat, UArctic EALAT Institute, Ministry for Arctic Development and Indigenous Peoples Affairs of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University.