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 • youthAra Irititja: Stories from a Long Time Ago
Welcome to Ara Irititja From the Ara Irititja website: “Ara Irititja means ‘stories from a long time ago’ in the language of Anangu (Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people) of Central Australia. The aim of Ara Irititja is to bring back home materials of cultural and historical significance to Anangu. These include […]
Anangu • Ara Irititja • archive • Australia • culture | preservation • Pitjantjatjara • Torres Strait Islander • YankunytjatjaraDigital Songlines project
A kind fellow by the name of Jeremy just sent me a message letting me know that the link to the Digital Songlines page no longer works. After looking around a bit online, I have learned why: the group that created the project is sadly no longer in existence. The […]
3D • aboriginal • Australia • cultural heritage • culture | preservation • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • myth • oral tradition • songline • visualizationOf local interest: The 2011 Saratoga Native American Festival
I rarely if ever wax personal on this blog, but I would like to share news about an upcoming local festival here in Upstate New York called the Saratoga Native American Festival. It has nothing to do with usual Ethnos Project fare like technology and culture or ICT4D – I […]
Abenaki • curriculum • Haudenosaunee • Native American • Saratoga SpringsHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
The world didn’t end on May 21st. Don’t be sad. There’s a cool new journal to check out… From their website: HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory, is an international peer-reviewed, open-access online journal which aims to situate ethnography as the prime heuristic of anthropology, and return it to the forefront […]
anthropology • ethnography • indigenous / traditional knowledge • open accessViTu: a system to help the Mexican people to preserve and celebrate their culture
This paper (excerpted below) by Mónica Isabel González Arribas, Emilio Sánchez Sánchez, and Edgar de los Santos Ramírez was presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011) in Vancouver, BC. Abstract ViTu is the entire development of a system focused on appreciating and highlighting […]
2011 • culture | preservation • ethnography • indigenous communities • kiosk • Oaxaca | MexicoManaging Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Is Technology the Solution?
Abstract This paper discusses current issues surrounding the management of indigenous knowledge (IK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) in libraries, archives and other cultural institutions. It addresses the need for: (1) ethical policies for the management of these knowledge systems, (2) critical approaches to the dominant library paradigm of information […]
2009 • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • intellectual property • knowledge systemsProblematizing Indigenous Aesthetics
In 1966, Sol Worth (professor of Communication from the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania) and John Adair (professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State University) set out to find “what kind of visual and temporal style and aesthetics might [the] Navajo use if they were trained […]
2009 • colonization / colonialism • indigenous aesthetics • Media: Film • Native American • NavajoHCI for the Developing World
President Truman, in his 1949 inaugural address, announced his plan for America to “embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.” He said that although our material resources for helping humanity were […]
2010 • design • development • HCI4D • human computer interaction • literature reviewBook Review: Encountering Development by Arturo Escobar
Escobar’s Encountering Development evolves around the thesis that “the discourse and strategy of development produced its opposite: massive underdevelopment and impoverishment, untold exploitation and oppression.” He approaches this through a discursive analysis of the components and relationships of what he calls “the three axes that define development”: its forms of […]
1994 • book review • development • development discourse • discursive analysis • encountering development • modernityLanguage Preservation Technology: Online Torwali (Kohistani) Dictionary
Reposted from the Center for Language Engineering website: On the occasion of International Mother Languages Day (21st February 2011), Center for Language Engineering at Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology is pleased to announce the launch of Online Torwali Dictionary (OTD). Torwali is an indigenous language […]
endangered language • Kohistani • language | preservation • localization • Pakistan • Torwali • Urdu