Abstract This paper explores the ways in which Indigenous people around the world are participating in the World Wide Web, through establishing their own websites or accessing services via the Web. Indigenous websites are remarkably diverse: in addition to those representing Indigenous organizations and promoting Indigenous e-commerce, many websites have […]
2005 • challenges • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • Internet use • misappropriation • revitalizationA model for community participation in African libraries to preserve Indigenous Knowledge
Before you begin reading the essay, you may wish to listen to Betsie Greyling talk about the Ulwazi Programme in this video: Abstract Africa and African libraries and information centres are poorly equipped to make a meaningful contribution to the current global digital knowledge economy. The lack of management systems […]
Africa • database management • Durban | South Africa • eThekwini • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge sharing / exchange • library database • participatory • Ulwazi Programme • virtual libraryDiscourse, ‘Development’ & the ‘Digital Divide’: ICT & the World Bank
Abstract Information and communication technology(ies) (ICT) is tipped to play an increasingly enabling role in the inclusion and exclusion of groups from participation in the discourse of ‘development’, with material consequences. In affecting how ‘development’ is framed, discussed and practised, the conception and use of such technologies itself thus becomes […]
2004 • development • development discourse • digital divide • discursive analysis • ICTs • World BankETEC 521: Indigeneity, Technology and Education
One of my guilty pleasures is reading the class blog for ETEC 521: Indigeneity, Technology and Education, a course taught at the University of British Columbia in their Master of Educational Technology program. Here’s a bit about the blog (from the About page): “These weblogs provide information on the collective […]
education • indigenous / traditional knowledge • researchTen Canoes: too much to fit…
“From almost the beginning, there were too many things that too many people wanted for them all to fit in just one feature film.” This is not so much a sell for the movie (released in 2006), but a brief introduction the possibilities Indigenous film can have within a given […]
Arnhem Land • elder • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Media: Film • Ramingining • Ten Canoes • tribal law • YolnguIndigenous Tweets
Indigenous Tweets is a website and accompanying blog by Kevin Scannell, a professor of Computer Science at Saint Louis University. To explain the project, I quote from the Indigenous Tweets blog: Project Background Speakers of indigenous and minority languages around the world are struggling to keep their languages and cultures […]
endangered language • language | preservation • revitalization • TwitterMobile Technology, Gender and Development
Mobile Technology, Gender and Development is a University of Jyväskylä based research project focusing on the use and cultural meanings of mobile technology in Africa, India and Bangladesh. From the first post on their blog: We are a group of five anthropologists doing research on mobile technology, gender and development. […]
Africa • anthropology • development • ethnography • gender • India • Jyväskylä | Finland • mobile • research • social change • South AsiaColonization and cultural reclamation as seen through the lens of Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn
A reflection on colonization and cultural reclamation as seen through the lens of Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn Imagine a fixed moment in time, suspended, frozen. It is the moment when a tadpole becomes a frog; that point of transformation at which the doors to the past are locked. The object […]
2009 • colonization / colonialism • culture • identity