Promoting Sustainable Practices for Digitalizing Indigenous Cultural Heritage - Global North and South Juxtaposed

TRUST aims to strengthen research in the Global North and South by concentrating on interdisciplinary groups processing practices for digitalizing Indigenous cultural heritage (CH). There is lack of holistic understanding and of workable solutions for how to navigate the legal, cultural and educational tensions existing with the processes of digitilizing Indigenous CH in an ethical and sustainable way. Central legal frameworks like IPR fall short of offering a regime that is respectful of the key ethical principles central for Indigenous peoples, while respecting the incentive purpose the IPR system was built for in the first place. To build TRUST we need to further develop the law so that it represents the interests of all parties in a balanced way, to develop educational methods to raise awareness and to create new socially innovative methods of engagement and interaction to enable knowledge co-creation amongst all stakeholders: this is the project ambition.