Multiculturalidad, interculturalismo y el aprovechamiento social de los conocimientos

An intercultural model suitable for multicultural societies, both globally and locally, requires recognition of the right of peoples to preserve their difference and collective identity, and it also needs to include ways to encourage respectful and cooperative interaction with each of the different peoples and cultures but must also incorporate the recognition of the right to enjoy the conditions for their development, and effective ways to achieve it. For this, in today’s world it is necessary to satisfy two conditions: 1) recognize the economic rights of the people and provide guarantees for its exercise, and 2) ensure that the different peoples and cultures have the capacity, and enjoy the adequate and appropriate conditions to generate knowledge and technologies needed to understand and solve social and environmental problems, according to the worldviews and value systems of each. The previous thing brings the possibility of appropriation and use both of modern scientific and technological knowledge, and traditional and local knowledge, with appropriate safeguards to prevent misappropriation.