Three articles that capture the current cultural debate around an Aborignal Australian songlines exhibit… Songlines project sparks indigenous culture war March 22, 2014, from a post written by Nicolaus Rothwell It seemed like a dream arts project for the remote western desert’s Aboriginal communities — a research and exhibition series […]
aboriginal • Australia • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Ngintaka • ownership • songlineParticipatory Cultural Heritage: A Tale of Two Institutions’ Use of Social Media
The purpose of this study is to examine how and to what extent cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) are currently using social media to create a culture of participation around their digital collections and services. An environmental scan of New Zealand CHIs with a social media initiative was conducted and four […]
2014 • cultural heritage • digital collections • New Zealand • participatory • social mediaEnduring Cultures – A Socio Cultural Toolkit
In the mad rush of modernization and the blind aping of Western manners, the East Indians (Roman Catholic ethnic group from the west coast of India) are slowly but steadily losing count of some of their most cherished customs and conventions, and are at the risk of being lost forever. […]
2012 • community media • cultural heritage • culture | preservation • India • indigenous / traditional knowledge • participatory • social media • toolkitCreating a Social Serious Game: an interdisciplinary experience among computer scientists and artists from UNLP faculties
This article describes the interdisciplinary work carried out by teachers and students of the Faculties of Fine Arts and Informatics in La Plata city, to develop a serious game for social networks related with Argentine native peoples. The game presented is a serious video game, innovative for social sciences, which […]
2014 • Argentina • cultural heritage • education • gaming • indigenous issues • serious games • youthFuture Priorities for Development Informatics Research from the Post-2015 Development Agenda
At the end of 2015, the Millennium Development Goals will be replaced by the post-2015 development agenda (PTDA). The foundational content is in place for this new agenda, which will be the single most-important force shaping the future of international development. In planning our priorities for development informatics research – […]
2014 • ICT4D • informatics • millennium development goals • policy • researchRising Voices announces 2014 Microgrants for Citizen Media Outreach Projects
From an ILAT posting by Eddie Avila… Rising Voices has launched the 2014 Microgrants for Citizen Media Outreach Projects. Perhaps there are people on this list who might be interested in teaching others in their communities how to use digital/citizen media for language preservation and revitalization. But we are open […]
citizen media • microgrants • Rising VoicesThe potential of ICTs in collecting, preserving and disseminating indigenous knowledge in Africa
This paper gives an outline of the importance of African indigenous knowledge. After that it gives the definition of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and indigenous knowledge. It then goes on to highlight examples in which information communication technologies have been used to preserve IK successfully. The paper further list […]
2006 • Africa • culture | preservation • digital library • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge managementDigital Memory Toolkit
The Digital Memory Toolkit aims to address a lack of digital literacy in community memory projects by giving project teams the insight and tools necessary to undertake digital memory projects. Projects of this nature commonly have twofold relevance – helping to preserve local knowledge and also empowering community members through […]
2014 • digital tools • open source • oral history • resources management • software • toolkitFrom the Árran to the Internet: Sami Storytelling in Digital Environments
This essay investigates the use of storytelling in the process of cultural and linguistic revitalization through specific contemporary examples drawn from the Internet. By examining instances of adaptation of Sami tales and legends to digital environments, I discuss new premises and challenges for the emergence of such narratives. In particular, […]
2013 • culture | preservation • indigenous communities • internet • language | preservation • revitalization • Sámi • storytellingWhy is it so hard to try something new in ICT4D?
How do you get aid workers to think about new ways of doing things and ensure technologies or tools introduced work in the local context and lead to sustainable change? As impact and scale become increasingly important, Laura Walker Hudson uncovers the barriers to making innovations work at an organisational […]
2013 • challenges • development • FrontlineSMS • ICT4D • ICTs • mobile • scalability • sustainabilityThe use of indigenous knowledge in development: problems and challenges
The use of indigenous knowledge has been seen by many as an alternative way of promoting development in poor rural communities in many parts of the world. By reviewing much of the recent work on indigenous knowledge, the paper suggests that a number of problems and tensions have resulted in […]
development • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • power relations • ruralInterview with Stefan Bock on HCI initiatives at BOSCO Uganda
Can you give a little background to the BOSCO Uganda Project and your role in the project? How did you become interested in working in the HCI field.BOSCO Uganda (Battery Operated Systems for Community Outreach) is a rural communications project based in Gulu, Northern Uganda. It was launched in 2007 […]
2011 • BOSCO • communication • human computer interaction • interview • rural • UgandaManaging & Preserving IK in the Knowledge Management Era: challenges & opportunities
Managing knowledge in general and indigenous knowledge in particular has become an important and valuable input in the management of sustainable development programmes. Historically, indigenous knowledge has been downplayed in the management of information. The tendency among library and information professionals has been to emphasize recorded knowledge at the expense […]
2002 • challenges • development • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge management • sustainabilityInformation Technology and Indigenous Communities: symposium publication
This document sets out key issues identified in the final plenary session at the AIATSIS research symposium on information technologies and Indigenous communities. Over 70 papers were presented at ITIC on the use of information technologies by Indigenous peoples. Illustrating the strength and vibrancy of the sector, presentations were delivered […]
2013 • AIATSIS • Australia • ICTs • indigenous communities • researchWestern Abenaki Dictionary
Along with the keyword searchable database of words which our site is built around, we have developed basic conjugation charts which will soon be linked to all words in their verb, noun, adjective and adverb forms. In truth, the language has no specific parts of speech, but is instead made […]
Abenaki • dictionary • Eastern Algonquian • indigenous language • language | preservation • Ndakinna Education CenterResearch is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods
Join Red River College and Dr. Shawn Wilson, a Manitoba-born Indigenous people research expert visiting from Australia, to learn about and explore the realm of Indigenous research. Wilson’s book, entitled “Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods” examines the philosophy underlying Indigenous peoples’ research methodologies in Canada and Australia. He will […]
Australia • Canada • ceremony • indigenous communities • indigenous scholars • indigenous studies • researchDecolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
An undisciplinary, peer-reviewed, online Open Access journal committed to decolonization work within education, as part of a larger project of decolonization in society. Vol 1, No 1 (2012) Vol 2, No 1 (2013) Vol 2, No 2 (2013) Focus & Scope Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society solicits any work purposefully […]
decolonization • education • indigenous studies • open accessHeenetiineyoo3eihiiho’ (Language Healers) tells the story of Indigenous language revitalization
About the Film From the scribe.org website: Heenetiineyoo3eihiiho’ (Language Healers) (2014, 40 min) tells the story of Native Peoples fighting to revitalize their languages. From Alaska to Oklahoma and Wisconsin to Montana, we witness stories about the importance of saving Native languages and meet some of the people who are […]
documentary • endangered language • indigenous language • Living Tongues InstituteApply now! Coding for Language Communities 2014
This post is adapted from Global Native Networks. It’s no secret that a handful of languages dominate the online space. A paper published last October in the journal PLOSOne (aptly titled “Digital Language Death”) found that less than five percent of the current world languages are in use online. Offline, around 7,776 […]
coding • conference • digital • language • linguisticsActivity Situated Semiotics in Human-Computer Interaction: Digitally Augmenting Museum Experiences
In the digital age, the museum experience can be enhanced using digital technologies and expanded beyond the time and space of the visit. Instead of being just passive viewers in the exhibition, visitors can be engaged in creating and sharing digital artefacts and stories as a result of augmented museum […]
design • digital artefacts • human computer interaction • information society • museum • research • storytellingFriend or Foe? Locating ICT Within the South African Governmental Discourse on Indigenous Knowledge Systems
The paper uses grounded theory to analyse the discourse on Indigenous Knowledge Systems within the South African government. Within this discourse, ICT is perceived both as a threat to African identity, through its potential facilitation of homogenisation and a potential ally, through its perceived potential to assist in the recording […]
Africa • ICTs • identity • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • research • South AfricaNyungar Knowledge Networks: an Aboriginal online encyclopedia
Excerpt from “New media to throw a lifeline to an ancient language” published February 11, 2014 on the University of Western Australia website. A new project will create the world’s first Aboriginal online encyclopedia as a way of preserving the ancient and endangered Noongar language – one of Australia’s biggest […]
aboriginal • Australia • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Nyungar / Noongar