ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the Indian central government’s novel approach to monitoring compliance with the Nagoya Protocol that depends upon a complex techno-legal strategy involving a coordinated domestic legal framework and technological systems, a centralised permitting system and the development of machine-learning software. The chapter concludes this contributes to a larger discussion about how legal forms and technological infrastructures increasingly function to regulate bio-cultural heritage access and use as a subject of transactional market exchanges.
