I am excited to announce that Rachael Petersen is now part of the Ethnos Project! Rachael is a 2012-2013 Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellow investigating indigenous peoples’ use of technology around the world. Her current year-long research has taken her to the Canadian Eastern Arctic and the Ecuadorian Amazon, and […]
dadadaOur Side of the Divide: African Perspectives on Information and Communication Technologies
Introduction This booklet is part of a broad strategy called ‘Speaking for Ourselves’. It recognises, that while the African perspective on the digital divide is underrepresented in the context of the World Summit on the Information Society, the people most directly affected by the digital divide have the best ideas, […]
2003 • Africa • development • digital divide • impact of | ICTs • information society • WSISWorkshop: Digital Media for Speakers of Endangered Languages in Latin America
Originally posted on rising.globalvoicesonline.org by Eddie Avila on 30 November 2012 Rising Voices Note: Rising Voices is pleased to be collaborating with this upcoming event in early 2013. This is a translation of the original website in Spanish at the Living Tongues blog. Enduring Voices: Digital Media Workshop for Speakers of Endangered Languages in […]
2013 • community media • conference • endangered language • indigenous language • Latin America • Living Tongues Institute • National Geographic Society • new media • Rising VoicesSecwepemctsin language app for Nintendo DSi and soon iPad
From The Daily News (Kamloops): Nintendo scores for native language “With as few as 150 fluent Secwepemctsin speakers remaining, most of them over age 65, the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society has come up with software for preserving the language. Nintendo DSi software that teaches Secwepemctsin to young children is in […]
aboriginal • application • education • FirstVoices • language | preservation • Nintendo • revitalization • Secwepemctsin • tablet / iPadAcknowledging Indigenous protocols: Traditional Knowledge (TK) licenses and fair-use labels
From the Mukurtu website: Mukurtu CMS (mentioned before on this site) makes it possible for you to share your digital cultural heritage using a set of innovative traditional knowledge licenses and labels specifically designed for the unique needs of Indigenous cultural materials. Mukurtu CMS provides several TK license options for […]
content management system • cultural protocols • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • intellectual property • MukurtuDecolonial Media Aesthetics and Women’s ICT4D Video
Dalida Maria Benfield, artist, activist, and Berkman Center fellow … speaking at The Berkman Center Luncheon Series, a weekly series of informal luncheons and other meetings, providing students, fellows, faculty, and anyone who reserves a seat opportunities to discuss issues relevant to their work and to engage other leading thinkers […]
2012 • Berkman Center • gendered discourse • historical narratives • ICT4D • media aesthetics • social change • womenLanguage app: Iwaidja
Ma! Iwaidja app on iTunes The Ma! Iwaidja app is an initiative of the Minjilang Endangered Languages Publication project (also known as Iwaidja Inyman), based on Croker Island in Northwestern Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory. This ‘touch and listen’ app includes: a 1,000 entry Iwaidja-English dictionary a 400-entry Iwaidja-English […]
Arnhem Land • Australia • endangered language • Iwaidja • language | preservation • language appWorld Oral Literature Project
About the Project From the project website: “The World Oral Literature Project is an urgent global initiative to document and disseminate endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record. The Project supports local communities and committed fieldworkers engaged in the collection and preservation of all forms of oral literature by […]
culture • culture | preservation • endangered language • oral literature • oral narrative • oral text • oral traditionOrganization Highlight: World Oral Literature Project
About the Project From the project website: “The World Oral Literature Project is an urgent global initiative to document and disseminate endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record. The Project supports local communities and committed fieldworkers engaged in the collection and preservation of all forms of oral literature by […]
culture • culture | preservation • endangered language • oral literature • oral narrative • oral text • oral traditionLiving Tongues Endangered Language Resources
The folks at Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages have put together a fine list of language archives and online resources dealing with endangered languages. Here is the intro from their website: “People often approach us seeking information about the world’s most endangered languages. Students ask us, “I want to […]
endangered language • language | preservation • Living Tongues InstituteBeing Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the year 2020
“The question persists and indeed grows whether the computer will make it easier or harder for human beings to know who they really are, to identify their real problems, to respond more fully to beauty, to place adequate value on life, and to make their world safer than it now […]
2008 • design • human computer interaction • ICTs • user interfaceThe eBario project
eBario Sdn Bhd operates the eBario project, which is a multi-award winning initiative that brought computers and the internet to the isolated communities of Kelabit people living in the remote highlands of northern Sarawak, one the East Malaysian States on the island of Borneo. It is located in the ecologically important area known […]
Borneo • eBario • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • Kelabit • Malaysia • Sarawak • telecenter • WSISThe eBario project and their vision for Indigenous people and ICT
eBario Sdn Bhd operates the eBario project, which is a multi-award winning initiative that brought computers and the internet to the isolated communities of Kelabit people living in the remote highlands of northern Sarawak, one the East Malaysian States on the island of Borneo. It is located in the ecologically important area known […]
Borneo • eBario • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • Kelabit • Malaysia • Sarawak • telecenter • WSISA decade of ICT4D: two academic perspectives
Two recent papers provide insights into the trends and changing field of ICT4D. The first is a 2011 paper by Ricardo Gomez, Luis F. Baron, and Brittany Fiore-Silfvast: The Changing Field of ICTD: Content analysis of research published in selected journals and conferences, 2000-2010 In this study, we report the […]
2011 • 2012 • ICT4D • ICTs • literature review • research • trendseBorneo: Information and Communication Needs and Opportunities for Remote Indigenous Communities
The eBorneo research project is being undertaken by eBario Sdn Bhd in partnership with the Centre of Excellence for Rural Informatics at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and the assistance of research interns from the College of Business at the City University of Hong Kong. Be sure to visit the eBario Sdn […]
2011 • CoERI • eBario • eBorneo • indigenous communities • Malaysia • Sarawak • telecenterIICD project profile: ICT for Strengthening the Capacities of Female Indigenous Leaders – Bolivia
In July of last year I highlighted an organization called IICD (worth a visit if you haven’t see it). IICD has quite a few projects in their database, but this one is of particular interest to me and so I thought I’d share it here. Summary From the project page […]
2007 • Bolivia • gender • ICTs • IICD • indigenous communities • Internet use • womenICTs and Indigenous People
Introduction Article 15 of the WSIS Declaration of The World Summit on the Information Society states “In the evolution of the Information Society, particular attention must be given to the special situation of indigenous peoples, as well as to the preservation of their heritage and their cultural legacy”. Although worldwide […]
2011 • cultural heritage • education • ICTs • indigenous communities • UNESCO • WSISDigital Subjects, Cultural Objects
Special Issue of the Journal of Material Culture The Journal of Material Culture is concerned with the relationship between artefacts and social relations irrespective of time and place and aims to systematically explore the linkage between the construction of social identities and the production and use of culture. Digital Subjects, […]
2012 • cultural heritage • identity • Māori • material culture • museum • new media • revitalization • taongaSpecial Issue of the Journal of Material Culture: Digital Subjects, Cultural Objects
The Journal of Material Culture is concerned with the relationship between artefacts and social relations irrespective of time and place and aims to systematically explore the linkage between the construction of social identities and the production and use of culture. Special Edition edited by Amiria Salmond and Billie Lythberg Introduction […]
2012 • cultural heritage • identity • Māori • material culture • museum • new media • revitalization • taongaCry Rock: a short documentary about stories, memory and Nuxalk tradition
Synopsis [from the Cry Rock website] Less than fifteen Nuxalk language speakers and storytellers remain in Bella Coola, British Columbia. One of these elders is the director Banchi Hanuse’s 80-year-old grandmother. In a technologically obsessed century, it would seem easier to record Nuxalk stories for future generations, but Hanuse resists. […]
2010 • Bella Coola | Canada • cultural protocols • Nuxalk • oral tradition • storytellingDigital Memories: Exploring Critical Issues
This publication is available through the Inter-Disciplinary Press(many good things there – definitely worth checking out). Contents Introduction Anna Maj and Daniel Riha Part I: Theories and Concepts in Digitizing Individual and Community Memory The Trouble with Memory: Reco(r)ding the Mind in Code Laura Schuster (New) Media and Representations of the […]
2009 • 3D • archive • community memory • cultural heritage • human computer interaction • new media • representation • visualization • web 2.0Connect a School, Connect a Community: Toolkit of Best Practices and Policy Advice
About Connect a School, Connect a Community From the connectaschool.org website: “Connecting all primary, secondary and post-secondary schools to ICTs by 2015 was one of the targets set by world leaders at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Connect a School, Connect a Community is a public-private partnership […]
development • education • gender • ICT4D • ICTs • indigenous communities • Internet use • toolkit • youthConnect a School, Connect a Community: Providing ICTs to Indigenous Peoples
This post was created to share a document called “Providing ICTs to Indigenous Peoples” which is part of a best practices toolkit created by the ITU’s Connect a School, Connect a Community initiative. But before I present the document, I’d like to step back and introduce it in context starting […]
development • education • gender • ICT4D • ICTs • indigenous communities • Internet use • toolkit • youthDigitising and handling Indigenous cultural resources in libraries, archives and museums
Abstract Indigenous cultural resources expose long memory trails which extend from understandings of origins to engagement with contemporary challenges. The tangible traces of aeons old intangible experience, they include practical and ceremonial artefacts housed in museums, sites of cultural significance, testimony and stories collected in libraries, and records of experience […]
2008 • cultural heritage • cultural protocols • curation • digital collections • indigenous / traditional knowledge • intangibleAboriginal Culture in the Digital Age
Introduction The object of this paper is to bring a holistic perspective to the implications of ICT for Aboriginal ways of living, thinking and knowing. Is ICT the potent enabler for the promotion, renewal and enrichment of Aboriginal cultures as many claim? For example does ICT offer new possibilities for […]
2005 • aboriginal • Australia • impact of | ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • language | preservation