- Organization
- Cooperativa Sulá Batsú
- Type
- Civil Society
- Years
- 2020
- Countries
- Costa, Costa Rica
The Sulá Batsú cooperative and the Network of Cabécar Women in Alto Pacuare are developing a digital application that will generate, in Costa Rica, conditions to counteract the risks of indigenous knowledge extractivism with the penetration of connectivity into their territories. This project seeks to strengthen indigenous women through their appropriation of knowledge on how the Internet works and “how their knowledge travels” along the network, as well as the risks of extracting knowledge; to generate local and national spaces where indigenous women can present their concerns, proposals and plans of action before networks of local stakeholders; to build a network of national stakeholders that support the process of awareness-building, advocacy and research on the problems of indigenous knowledge extractivism in Costa Rica, and, finally, to generate a course of action to develop the (normative, legislative, procedural, etc.) conditions needed to protect indigenous knowledge in Costa Rica. The project anticipates the creation of training materials showing how to use the Internet; an assessment of the benefits and disadvantages of the Internet for indigenous knowledge in Cabécar; the training of women from Alto Pacuare on the use of the Internet; a trip to Oaxaca by an indigenous leader and designer of materials for an exchange with TIC-AC; the creation of an action plan in response to the concern for the extraction of knowledge; a meeting with indigenous women from other territories to enrich the action plan as well as a national meeting with multiple stakeholders led by the women of Cabécares, and the development of an awareness and advocacy campaign.
