Preserving culture | Garissa County to digitize cultural information 

Garissa County and the  Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage have agreed to operationalize the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions to promote innovation and generate intellectual assets for the market place.

Garissa Governor Nathif Jama has thrown his weight behind efforts to conduct an indigenous knowledge documentation and digitization program in Garissa County.

Speaking this afternoon when he met the Program Implementation Team behind the initiative, Gov. Nathif said indigenous identity, culture, languages, heritage and livelihoods, and its transmission must be protected, preserved and encouraged.

The National Government’s Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage through the Natural Products Industry initiative, is set to pilot the program in Garissa.

The overall goal of the Kenya Vision 2030 Flagship Project is to advance protection, promotion and valorization (value addition) of Kenya’s indigenous knowledge and associated assets.

Gov. Nathif called on those involved in the exercise to do their best saying Garissa has to emerge as the best county in the 13 county pilot program .

The next activity in the program is capacity building of county government technical officers, national government administrative officers in the counties, local community leaders and young champions for culture.

The training is to empower them to carry out the actual documentation and digitization of indigenous knowledge and associated assets from the different local communities in the county.