In order to develop the capacity and participation of indigenous peoples and nationalities, montubio, Afro-Ecuadorian and other traditional communities, ancestral units of Ecuador, and other organized sectors of civil society and public institutions, in dissemination, knowledge development, structure and discussion of ancestral knowledge, and strengthening public policies and strategies for protecting biodiversity in the country, the Traditional Knowledge Unit of the Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property-IEPI-informed citizens the Seminar Workshop on Strengthening Capacities and Strategies for the Protection of Genetic Resources of Ecuador and Associated Traditional Knowledge. "
is of paramount importance to start building a systemic and systematic forms of protection of ancestral knowledge, genetic resources and cultural expressions, such as being part of our heritage we must be aware of it: we can only protect what we know . In this regard, the IEPI has spared no efforts to have national and international experts representing the different nationalities and indigenous peoples (Kichwa from the coast, Afro-Ecuadorian Nationality Epera Federation, Chachi, Pueblo Tsáchila, Awa Federation, among others) and representatives of different coastal provinces, NGOs and GOs, as well as civil society representatives, mayors, governors and community leaders at the event mentioned above.
So we are pleased to invite your important media and through you to inform the general public of the conduct of that event to be held in the capital city in the Grand Hotel Mercure Alameda , on Wednesday, February 9, 2011.
take this opportunity to reiterate to you my sentiments of highest consideration and esteem.
For further information and coordinating interviews contact:
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION-Telephone: 2508000 to 3 -
Atty. Naomi Castro / Principal expert in Social Communication / ext. 210 and 411
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