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). He said, “When each of you in this room were born, there were 6,000 languages spoken on the planet . . . and of those […]
2008 • database • design • endangered language • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge management • modernity • oral tradition • western culture