M·CAM Announces Summer Internship in Papua New Guinea

Date:  Fri, 2009-02-27

M·CAM Announces Summer Internship in Papua New Guinea

Charlottesville, Virginia and Vunakanau, East New Britain PNG–February 27, 2009 –– M·CAM has announced its summer internship program to East New Britain in Papua New Guinea this year and the four interns who have been selected for the program. Working in partnership with Pacific Spices and with the support of friends at Australia’s PITIC and the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat, M·CAM will be expanding its work on establishing the framework for Heritable Innovation Trusts in the Pacific. Last year, M·CAM launched this effort with colleagues at SBEC in Samoa working on issues including the misappropriation of indigenous knowledge from traditional healers (a subject of on-going work) and the growing environmental challenges posed by efforts to extract undersea mineral resources. For more information about this internship, please follow the blog at: More Information