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Intellectual Cultural Heritage
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Objectives
1. To record the background history, wisdom and
identity of the intellectual cultural heritage;
2. To provide important database on intellectual
cultural heritage in Thailand;
3. To enhance the crucial role and the pride of
the communities, groups, or individuals that own the
intellectual cultural heritage;
4. To promote and develop the r ight of
communities to conserve, perpetuate, restore, and
safeguard the local and national intellectual cultural
heritage;
5. To prepare the groundwork for Thailand to
become a state party to UNESCO’s Conventions for the
Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Expected Benefit from the Intel lectual
Cultural Heritage Designation
It is expected that people will appreciate more the
value and identity of their intellectual cultural heritage,
become proud of their intellectual cultural heritage and
community, and realise that intellectual cultural heritage
reflects the nation’s prestige. The intellectual cultural
heritage designation wi l l enhance the diversity of
intellectual cultural heritage in Thailand, promote learning
and better access to designated intellectual cultural
heritage, and contribute to the tourism promotion.
Thailand’s intellectual cultural heritage designation
significantly prepares the groundwork for Thailand to
become state party to the UNESCO’s Conventions for the
Safeguarding of the Intellectual Cultural Heritage.
Operat ional Di rect ives for Intel lectual
Cultural Heritage Designation
To facilitate Thailand’s intellectual cultural heritage
management in systematic and continuous manner, to
trigger an awareness in the communities of the value
and identity of their intellectual cultural heritage, to
enhance the pride in their intellectual cultural heritage,
and to promote the younger generations to learn and
perpetuate the intellectual cultural heritage in their
communities, the ONCC has therefore laid down the
operational directives and regulated the designation
procedure for the pi lot project to des ignate the
intellectual cultural heritage in 2009 as follows: