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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture
  • Subject: Re: PFAF database to be used by AAAS to help protect indiginous knowledge
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:30:55 -0500


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:11:27 +0000, Andy <andyrug@gmx.net> wrote:

>The American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science and Human
>Rights Program
> are developing an online index of traditional ecological knowledge that is
> in the public domain. 
> A prototype of the index, TEK*PAD (Traditional Ecological Knowledge Prior
> Art Database) can be viewed at:
>
>http://ip.aaas.org/tekindex.nsf
>
>The idea behind TEK*PAD is to establish prior knowledge about plant uses,
>this will be useful to help ensure that
>information about traditional plant uses remains in the public domain and is
>protected from patent applications.
>
>They are including the PFAF database in their project. It is great to know
>that our PFAF will
>be able to help in such an important project. I've included details from
>their website below.

There is almost nothing there, no links and no mention of PFAF, one
collaborator: Raintree Tropical Plant Database,
http://www.rain-tree.com.




L.F.London ICQ#27930345 lflondon@mindspring.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech london@ibiblio.org



  • Re: PFAF database to be used by AAAS to help protect indiginous knowledge, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 11/13/2001

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