Abstract The global digital divide threatens to exclude millions of people from the potential benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially computers and the Internet. Many of these people live in rural, isolated and remote places of developing countries and are unlikely to be able to afford the cost […]
2011 • development • digital divide • ICTs • indigenous communities • Malaysia • poverty reduction • radio • rural • virtual museumDesign, Development and Research 2011
Inaugural Conference on Design, Development and Research 2011 Bellville, Cape Town September 23, 2011 – September 27, 2011 Design is integral to the IT discipline, e.g. it is an important component of the software development process. There is also much activity in ICT4D; health & community informatics; business; and other […]
2011 • Cape Town | South Africa • community informatics • conference • design • development • ICT4DRepatriation, Digital Media, and Culture in the Virtual Museum
A presentation by Kate Hennessy. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Many Canadian First Nations and Aboriginal organizations are using digital media to revitalize their languages and assert control over the representation of their cultures. […]
aboriginal • cultural heritage • culture • digital collections • Doig River • ethnography • First Nations • indigenous communities • intellectual property • language | preservation • museum • repatriation • virtual museum