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 • youth