Indigenous peoples are addressing the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism through a variety of expressions of community resurgence. Among these initiatives are those leveraging digital technologies. In the emergent network society, digital infrastructures, and information and communication technologies are powerful tools that can support self-government. In this context, we document […]
2015 • colonization / colonialism • cultural protocols • First Mile • First Nations • ICTs • indigenous communities • infrastructure • Kahnawà:ke • Mohawk • network • policyel Acervo Digital de la Cultura y Lengua Nomatsigenga
Archive of the Nomatsigenga Language and Culture About – in Nomatsigenga Ira nomatsigengajegi kara atimaigiri iroonti agibatsiteegi,aisati pinageti tojai ikantagetaigira ira ogotasantaigira ira acharineegi kara jirai inagaegi kantanè yomagisantaigéro ora ikantaigira jirainisati.oka igoigira ironta asiegi ikoigagininta osangenatokotagima. komanoroni ingomantèro irasi iboina matsigenga ira inaiganatsinera.aro kara igoiganake yobetsikaigotanaka kara ikantaigari inibaretsajegikè […]
Amazon • archive • culture | preservation • language | preservation • Nomatsigenga • participatory • PeruDevelopment of Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Resource-Scarce African Languages
As we move towards an increasingly globalized and knowledge-based economy, the ability to discover and share information across language and cultural boundaries has become more and more crucial. With the advent and rapid development of the Internet, the amount of information generated in different languages and disseminated via the World […]
2015 • Afaan Oromo • Africa • CLIR • cross-language • information retrieval • minority language • OMEN-CLIR • under-resourcedDigital storytelling & Co-creative Media: …community arts & media in propagating & coordinating population-wide creative practice
Introduction How is creative expression and communication extended among whole populations? What is the social and cultural value of this activity? What roles do formal agencies, community based organisations and content producer networks play? Specifically, how do participatory media and arts projects and networks contribute to building this capacity in […]
Australia • co-creative • community • community media • digital storytelling • participatory • social changeTowards the enhancement of Arctic digital industries: ‘Translating’ cultural content to new media platforms
This paper proposes a preliminary framework for digital ‘translation’ attempting to, (while cognisant of conceptual limitations embedded in this model) localise aspects of Inuit knowledge, culture and IQ (in the sense of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit) into digital artifacts for new generations of Inuit and non-Inuit learners. In addition to delineating challenges […]
2015 • challenges • digital inclusion • indigenous / traditional knowledge • infrastructure • Inuit • Nunavut