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1986 • aboriginal • Australia • language | preservation • television • Torres Strait IslanderIndigenous communities deploy high-tech mapmaking to staunch global land grab
With governments, loggers, miners and palm oil producers poaching their lands with impunity, indigenous leaders from 17 countries gathered on a remote island in Sumatra this week to launch a global fight for their rights that will take advantage of powerful mapping tools combined with indigenous knowledge to mark traditional […]
GIS • GPS • indigenous • land rights • mappingNew technology maps Inuit knowledge: “A profound tool for reversing discrimination”
OTTAWA — About 25 kilometres southeast of Arctic Bay, on the northern shore of Adams Sound, there is a place called Qajuutinnguaq. It means “Hill shaped like a chisel.” You wouldn’t find it on most official maps because official maps of Nunavut contain huge swaths of unnamed land. And most […]
2013 • Canada • Inuit • Inuktitut • mapping • open source • oral traditionThe Herero people of Erindiroukambe: using tablet PCs to preserve indigenous knowledge
“Tablet PCs preserve indigenous knowledge” by Niall Firth, published 18 June 2012 in New Scientist Magazine issue 2869. Tablet computers could help villagers in the Kalahari desert preserve cultural knowledge and traditional techniques for future generations The Herero people know just what to do when a horse is too wild […]
2012 • 3D • culture | preservation • Herero • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Namibia • tablet / iPad • visualization