The Ulwazi Programme is several things: a collection of technologies, social initiatives and research endeavors. On one hand, it is an online community-sourced website database (based on the MediaWiki platform) and informative blog (WordPress). On the other hand, Ulwazi involves programmatic aspects such as the School’s Project, a certificate project […]
database • Durban | South Africa • education • eThekwini • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Ulwazi ProgrammeThe Ulwazi Programme
The Ulwazi Programme is an initiative of the eThekwini Municipal Library to preserve the indigenous knowledge of local communities in the greater Durban area. This innovation, developed and implemented by the Software Applications Section of the Libraries, is based on a bottom-up model through which online indigenous knowledge resources are […]
database • Durban | South Africa • education • eThekwini • identity • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • libraries • Ulwazi ProgrammeReturn: The Photographic Archive and Technologies of Indigenous Memory
Abstract This paper considers the intersection of Aboriginal traditions surrounding photography and the use of new technologies as both a research tool and a community resource. Over recent decades Australian cultural institutions have radically altered their management of photographic archives in response to changing political and intellectual circumstances – especially […]
2010 • aboriginal • archive • Arnhem Land • Australia • cultural protocols • intellectual property • photographs • repatriation • representation • western knowledgeSome challenges for Information and Communication Technologies in Indigenous Knowledge preservation
Abstract Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are the basis for social appropriation in local communities. ICTs hold significant potential for positive benefits for local communities to deal with ‘digital’ connectivity and global knowledge contexts. With the digitalisation of knowledge, including indigenous knowledge (IK), ICTs are offering alternative perspectives of knowledge […]
2010 • challenges • community informatics • culture | preservation • Durban | South Africa • eThekwini • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Ulwazi ProgrammeAccess and Control of Indigenous Knowledge in Libraries and Archives: Ownership & Future Use
Abstract Last year, a friend of mine from a remote community in Arnhem Land, in northern Australia, came down to Canberra to look through various collections that pertained to his community and his clan, the Gupapyngu people. (The trip takes a day and a half by plane.) This material had […]
2005 • aboriginal • AIATSIS • Arnhem Land • Australia • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • library database • Torres Strait IslanderCultural Imperialism & Pedagogical Possibilities Emerging from Youth Encounters w/ Internet in Africa
Abstract Many academic and popular writers have warned that the internet could be another form of cultural imperialism used by corporate-led western powers to force feed western values and worldviews to the rest of the world, similar to how Western education was imposed on Africa after colonisation. These ongoing arguments […]
2008 • Africa • colonization / colonialism • education • ICTs • pedagogy • western values • youthICTs, KM and Indigenous Knowledge: Implications to Livelihood of Communities in Ethiopia
Full Title: Information and Communication Technologies, Knowledge Management and Indigenous Knowledge: Implications to Livelihood of Communities in Ethiopia Introduction This brief paper discusses the role of information and communication technologies in gathering, storing and disseminating indigenous knowledge, the various community-based structures to be used in order to safeguard and transfer […]
2007 • culture | preservation • development • Ethiopia • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge management • knowledge systemsOrganization Highlight: Living Cultural Storybases (LCS)
Nurturing the oral heritage of minority cultures in a digital world The following text is from the Living Cultural Storybases website: http://storybases.org/ Misson LCS seeks to nurture the oral heritage of minority cultures by developing respectful methodologies accompanied by appropriate technological solutions. We aim to enable indigenous communities to share and […]
cultural heritage • culture | preservation • elder • identity • indigenous communities • oral tradition • participatory • QR code • Quechua • revitalizationLiving Cultural Storybases (LCS)
Nurturing the oral heritage of minority cultures in a digital world The following text is from the Living Cultural Storybases website: http://storybases.org/ Misson LCS seeks to nurture the oral heritage of minority cultures by developing respectful methodologies accompanied by appropriate technological solutions. We aim to enable indigenous communities to share and […]
cultural heritage • culture | preservation • elder • identity • indigenous communities • oral tradition • participatory • QR code • Quechua • revitalizationOgoki Learning Systems Releases Open Source Native Language App Code
Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. is releasing their App code for free The following text is from the Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. website: Would you like your own Aboriginal language app for the iPad, iPhone or Touch? Your language app can look like Ojibway – People and Language iPhone app Build your own […]
aboriginal • design • First Nations • indigenous language • mobile • Ogoki Learning Systems • Ojibwe / Ojibway • smart phone • youthOpen Source Native Language App Code
Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. is releasing their App code for free The following text is from the Ogoki Learning Systems Inc. website: Would you like your own Aboriginal language app for the iPad, iPhone or Touch? Your language app can look like Ojibway – People and Language iPhone app Build your own […]
aboriginal • design • First Nations • indigenous language • mobile • Ogoki Learning Systems • Ojibwe / Ojibway • smart phone • youthTravelling Through Layers: Inuit Artists Appropriate New Technologies
When the time came a few years ago to find an Inuktitut term for the word “Internet,” Nunavut’s former Official Languages Commissioner, Eva Aariak, chose ikiaqqivik, or “traveling through layers” (Minogue, 2005, n.p.). The word comes from the concept describing what a shaman does when asked to find out about […]
2006 • elder • Igloolik • ikiaqqivik • Inuit • IsumaTV • NunavutDigital Cultural Communication: Enabling new media and cocreation in SouthEast Asia
Abstract Digital Cultural Communication (DCC) is a new field of research and design which seeks to build a cocreative relationship between the cultural institution and the community by using new media to produce audiencefocused cultural interactive experiences (Russo and Watkins 2005). By situating the development of cultural communities within DCC, […]
2005 • Asia • collaboration • culture • curation • digital collections • information literacy • new media