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		<title>Memory Technologies: Indigenous Knowledge and ICT Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[First in a series] – 1 2 3 4
As Indigenous communities endeavor to maintain their traditional ways of knowing, many are turning to information and communication technologies (ICTs) to sustain and stimulate their Indigenous knowledge. They are using analog and digital video and audio recording devices as well as a constellation of computer and Internet-related [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Different Ways of Remembering: the Example of Storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Second in a series] – 1 2 3 4
It is sensible for people who associate facts with knowledge to use memory technologies such as computers and databases. The relationship between Westernized concepts of the mind and of the computer are fairly clear: we view the computer as an extension of our individual minds. We store [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Proverbializing the Computer System?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Third in a series] – 1 2 3 4
In considering how ICTs can be used in regard to processing Indigenous knowledge, Barbara Schoenhoff poses this question: “Still, how do you incorporate this on a computer system? By computerizing the proverbs or proverbializing the computer system” (99)? As the past conversation has illustrated, the first suggestion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=81</link>
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		<title>Reflections on Indigenous Memory Technologies and Implications for ICT Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Fourth in a series] – 1 2 3 4
From lukasa, wiigwaasabakoon, and wampum belts, we can begin to extrapolate certain characteristics of Indigenous knowledge germane to the design of ICTs used as memory technologies. The Indigenous technologies are coupled with a practice that is often sacred or protected, ritualized, negotiated through social relationships. They are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=83</link>
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		<title>A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Indigenous Knowledge Management Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief overview of the socio-technical problem space
Indigenous cultures across the planet are disappearing. In 2007, Wade Davis, a Harvard-trained ethnobotanist, presented at the TED conference on the subject of endangered cultures (http://tinyurl.com/wadedavis). He said, “When each of you in this room were born, there were 6,000 languages spoken on the planet . . . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Misappropriation, Decontextualization &amp; Exploitation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Fourth in a series] &#8211; 1 2 3 4
Another major concern for indigenous communities adopting ICT for cultural revitalization projects is the fear that the knowledge they seek to save – some of which is sacred, proprietary, or meant for particular audiences – will be misappropriated or decontextualized. The prevalence of biopiracy worldwide illustrates that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=54</link>
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		<title>Antithetical to Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Third in a series] &#8211; 1 2 3 4
In any kind of media translation, there is a loss of nuance. For example, consider the four ICT typically used to populate a digital archive: an audio recorded conversation resides out of context, a photograph lacks motion, text lacks nonverbal cues, and video – which addresses some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Rejection of Western Values and Issues of Authority and Governance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Second in a series] &#8211; 1 2 3 4
Charles Ess warns that the use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in cultural revitalization efforts can bring with it a “computer-mediated colonialism” or an emphasis on the Western cultural values embedded within the technology used which can overshadow the values and communicative preferences of indigenous peoples (Ess, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=50</link>
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		<title>Negotiating Community Resistance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[First in a series] &#8211; 1 2 3 4
“Esdunèna keh kudoge dahkwandēʼ tedètsʼet. Neni dahtsʼadi netʼē dahkwandē tsʼèn keniden. Dahtsʼadi etʼē dahkwandēʼ. Dahkwandēʼ niʼushdèn shį̀. Dahkwandēʼ tsʼèn keniden. Dahkwandēʼ tsʼèn keniden.”
[“To all my children, we are losing our language. You are our future leaders; you must learn our language. It is the root and heart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Moving from theory to practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sixth in a series] &#8211; 1 2 3 4 5 6
We know that the UN has created an ICT Task Force and laid out an ambitious 8-part Millennium Development Goals proclamation. We know the history of development (in broad brush strokes) and how the current trends involve the use of ICTs in development programs. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ethnosproject.org/journal/?p=29</link>
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