Ai-West-Africa/aiwa-policy

The complete policy framework for AI West Africa (AIWA) — a Gambian-based publishing, cultural classification, and rights administration system designed to manage modern creative works alongside protected cultural heritage. # AI West Africa Governance & Policy This repository contains the policy framework for **AI West Africa (AIWA)** — a creator-first African collective rights administration and licensing organization that administers, protects, licenses, and monetizes creative and educational works globally while creators retain ownership. As a Gambian-centered multi-format licensing infrastructure, AIWA collects revenues and distributes royalties on behalf of creators across music, video, books, educational content, and cultural works — with a focus on cultural integrity and ensuring rights and revenues remain connected to creators and communities. Within this framework, AIWA operates as contractual and operational compliance infrastructure, not as a sovereign regulator, ministry, court, or public authority. **Core Principle.** AIWA administers rights on behalf of rights holders and does not acquire ownership of copyrights, communal heritage, languages, or cultural identity except where expressly agreed in writing. --- ## Status > **Version 1.0 — Active** > All core policy documents, standards, governance documents, and the full policy architecture have been compiled and populated. > These documents are the authoritative Version 1.0 policy framework for AI West Africa. --- ## Repository Structure ``` /aiwa-policy/ /docs/ /01-cultural-classification/ cultural-resource-classification-definitions.md (AIWA-DOC-01) — ACTIVE /02-legal-alignment/ governing-legal-alignment-structural-reality.md (AIWA-DOC-02) — ACTIVE /03-process-procedures/ process-and-procedures-for-all-works.md (AIWA-DOC-03) — ACTIVE /policies/ /tier1/ ← Foundational Governance Policies AIWA-POL-01-rights-administration-licensing.md AIWA-POL-02-royalty-governance-financial-administration.md AIWA-POL-03-cultural-heritage-traditional-expressions.md AIWA-POL-04-ai-governance-dataset-stewardship.md AIWA-POL-05-rights-verification-provenance.md /tier2/ ← Operational & P …