The project will implement the Research Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Protocol (RICIPP).

This protocol will be co-designed by The Research Indigenous Communities of Practice (RICOP) in WP4. A commitment to ethical research with Indigenous communities should extend beyond formal compliance requirements. Academic and government copyright and other intellectual property rights protect scholarly and creative works generally, but these protections have emerged from a Western idea of ‘knowledge outputs’ and can be inadequate for protecting Indigenous knowledge.

Cultural skills and practices are not covered by copyright, and Indigenous knowledge can be misappropriated. The RICIPP will be based on the principles of respect, consent, reciprocity, and shared opportunity, respecting and uphold Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights. We recognise that specific rights and protocols need to be applied when seeking to engage ethically with Indigenous knowledge. Measures will be applied to ensure the quality and efficacy of the data collected. Detailed protocols for data collection will be carefully co-developed with Indigenous People, refined, and agreed by the RICOP and the project team. Whilst protocols are being developed, standards and systems for notetaking, recording, transcribing, and storing data will be agreed. The words spoken by a participant remain the intellectual property of that person even though the recording itself is the property of the research institution (Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988). An information sheet will be given to each participant, and if he/she agrees to participate of the research a consent form will be given to sign/or the consent will be audio recorded (in case of limited or no writing skills) and saved by the project. If the person decides later to do not participate of the study, she/he will contact the research and all information that she/he has provided will be destroyed. Photos and videos collected by the research are property of the project if the Indigenous People agree with this. Before any visual data being co-designed, an information sheet will be given to participants, and if they agree to give to the Project the right of use their image for research dissemination, a consent form will be signed/or audio recorded.