The Rural Lensaims to be an international leader for global preservation sustainability, leading by example, the Society had developed a sustained framework for the audiovisual acquisition, processing, documentation and preservation of the peoples’ living knowledge. It seeks to enhance the preservation of the local knowledge as it is the key tool to foster sustainability and economic development o
f the people. The sustainability of the African Knowledge is an important development challenge and the role of intellectual property to maintain its viability and support its expansion is poorly understood. Our Vision
To create the largest standard repository database of traditional knowledge
The objective of the Organisation is to power the development of the traditional knowledge and its preservation through professional technical documentation and institutional capacity dissemination for future. We also seek to consolidate innovative individual or community and reward for creativity through enhanced skills, to support effective exercise of rights, professional media marketing. We wish to preserve different local skills in audiovisual digital format across the nation, but we are building a fully functional infrastructure for audiovisual preservation in order to do so. The records have been identified as both of the highest potential research value and conservation of cultural heritages.
