From the Wikitongues.org website: “If you’re worried about the future of your language, this toolkit is a great place to start. In partnership with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, we have identified a set of best practices for launching your own language revitalization.” Toolkit Introduction This Language Sustainability […]
2020 • language | preservation • Living Tongues Institute • revitalization • toolkit • WikitonguesSaratoga Native American Festival Education Guide
I had the opportunity to serve as the organizer for the Saratoga Native American Festival for its first two years in operation (2006 and 2007) while working as the Education Director for the Ndakinna Education Center. Since 2017, I have served as an Ndakinna board member. One of my responsibilities […]
2019 • Abenaki • festival • Haudenosaunee • Iroquois • Mohican • Native American • Ndakinna Education Center • Saratoga SpringsTelling our Stories: Aboriginal young people in Victoria and Digital Storytelling
This project worked with Aboriginal youth under the age of 25 – an age group that forms the majority of the Aboriginal population in Victoria and is among the highest users of mobile phones, actively engaging in social media and other online platforms. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, Aboriginal […]
2014 • aboriginal • Australia • digital • digital storytelling • identity • mobile • Victoria • youthBuilding Digital Capacities: Enabling the Drivers of Social Change through ICTs
Welcome to IICD’s Annual Report 2013. Our report will take you through the countries we work in and a selection of projects that demonstrate how our ICT-led social innovation process has helped foster behavioural and social change in these communities. IICD uses ICT to help build the capacity of people […]
2014 • Africa • capacity building • ICTs • IICD • innovation • Latin America • social changeMeasuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model
This paper introduces an innovative new model for measuring the impact of digital heritage resources – the Balanced Value Impact Model. The Balanced Value Impact Model (BVI Model) brings together into a holistic framework aspects from disparate Impact Assessment (IA) disciplines into a cohesive and logical process. This model balances […]
2012 • balanced value impact model • digital collections • digital heritage • digital humanitiesICT Policy for Development: International Perspectives and National Case Studies
The Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at UPenn commissioned the writing of a course curriculum and syllabus which is meant for teaching the fundamentals of ICT4D. The first syllabus was developed as part of collaboration between CGCS and the World Bank, and features a two-week module on Eastern Europe […]
Africa • Asia • broadband • curriculum • Eastern Europe • ICT4D • innovation • policyUsing Technology for Social Good: An Exploration of Best Practice in the Use of ICTs for Development
How has technology influenced the path of international development, and how can information and communications technologies (ICTs) be used to strengthen and improve development projects undertaken by the United Methodist community? To answer these questions, this discussion paper draws from conversations with eight experts whose interviews are featured as part […]
2014 • best practice • ICT4D • ICTs • interview • social change • UMComA Digital Shift: Youth and ICT for Development Best Practices
A publication of the GAID Committee of eLeaders for Youth and ICT, In collaboration with TakingITGlobal and the Youth Unit of Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. This publication was done with two purposes in mind. The first is to showcase the efforts of individuals and groups who are inspiring a […]
2009 • education • GAID • ICTs • millennium development goals • youthDocumentation of traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs)
Documentation of traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) has attracted increasing attention in recent years from governments and cultural institutions as well as from indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs), in parallel with the growing recognition of the cultural and economic value of TK and TCEs. New information […]
2011 • digitization • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • intellectual property • traditional culture • WIPOIntellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions / Folklore: a Guide for Countries in Transition
This guide aims to help countries in transition decide whether and how best to protect traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) held by indigenous peoples and local communities. It describes the intellectual property (IP) concepts involved in protecting TK and TCEs and outlines existing international, regional and national […]
2013 • folklore • indigenous / traditional knowledge • intellectual property • traditional culture • WIPOICTs for Development: Empowerment or Exploitation?
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can empower people. They unlock a world of super-fast, globalised communications and decentralised information networks. Once people can access and use the technology, their lives will be improved. According to a recent study of ICT for development (ICT4D) projects in Africa, access to communications technologies […]
2004 • Africa • empower • exploitation • ICT4D • ICTs • poverty reductionIndigenous Knowledge for Development: a Framework for Action
This paper has been prepared in the context of the Indigenous Knowledge for Development Initiative. The initiative is lead by the World Bank in partnership with several organizations which are collaborating under the Partnership for Information and Communication Technology for Africa (PICTA). The main premise of the paper is that […]
1998 • Africa • development • indigenous / traditional knowledge • World BankiGUIDE – ICTD Resources in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area
The iGUIDE: ICTD Resources in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area is the first-ever comprehensive resource directory of local ICTD initiatives. Its easy-to-use listings of vital information about ICTD organizations and ICTD funders will serve as a valuable resource for ICTD practitioners, not only in Silicon Valley and […]
2009 • ICT4D • San Francisco • Silicon ValleyAfter the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge
Museum Anthropology Review, Vol 7, No 1-2 (2013) This double issue of Museum Anthropology Review collects papers originally presented at a January 2012 workshop titled “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge.” Hosted by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and funded by the (U.S.) […]
culture | preservation • data • digital • indigenous • innovation • intellectual property • museumPoverty in Focus – Indigenising Development
Among the many social groups that have been historically excluded, indigenous peoples comprise one that offers great challenges to development. Although their assimilation has been a goal of the national societies that engulfed them, it is disputable whether indigenous peoples desire the type of social inclusion that development, in its […]
2009 • culture • development • indigenous communities • poverty reductionSaratoga Native American Festival Program Guide
Note from Mark: I had the opportunity to serve as the organizer for the Saratoga Native American Festival for its first two years in operation (2006 and 2007) while working as the Education Director for the Ndakinna Education Center. The Saratoga Native American Festival is a collaborative effort of the […]
2007 • festival • Native American • Ndakinna Education Center • Saratoga SpringsSaratoga Native American Festival Curriculum Guide
This Curriculum Guide was published in conjunction with the 2007 Saratoga Native American Festival in Saratoga Springs, New York. Teachers at all levels will find that the lessons and activities introduced can be used broadly to support their own classroom curricula. This program guide was developed by Amy Totino, a […]
curriculum • festival • Native American • Ndakinna Education Center • Saratoga SpringsUNDP Resource Kit on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues
This kit focuses on development and indigenous peoples, with emphasis on their full and effective participation in all development processes and the need for a genuine partnership in—and ownership with them—of these processes. It is designed to provide United Nations Country Teams with guidance as to how to engage indigenous […]
2008 • development • indigenous communities • participatory • toolkit • UNDPDigital Humanities Now
Digital Humanities Now is an experimental, edited publication that highlights and distributes informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web. Since 2009, DHNow has been refining processes of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review to open and extend conversations about the digital humanities research and practice. DHNow highlights […]
digital humanities • researchNgan’gi Seasons Calendar
Use the button above to download the PDF of the calendar. The Ngan’gi Seasons calendar was developed by key knowledge-holders of the Ngan’gi language from Nauiyu Nambiyu and CSIRO as part of a Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge project on Indigenous socio-economic values and rivers flows in northern Australia. The […]
Australia • calendar • design • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Nauiyu Nambiyu • Ngan’gi • seasonsEmpowering women through ICT (Spider ICT4D Series)
In March 2008, The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (Spider) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) gender help desk organized a workshop on gender, ICT and development. The aim of the workshop was to get an overview of actors and activities in Sweden in the area […]
2012 • gender • ICT4D • ICTs • SIDA • SPIDER • womenAPCICT’s ICTD Briefing Note Series 2011
Updated first eight editions of APCICT’s ICTD Briefing Note Series. The publications, based on the curriculum of APCICT’s “Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders Programme” (Academy), are designed to provide senior government officials with concise yet detailed analysis of ICT for development related issues and topics. The Briefing Note […]
2011 • APCICT • development • government • ICTs • policyiREACH: Lessons from a Community Owned ICT Network in Cambodia
Abstract Cambodia is for various reasons a challenging environment for ICT development. This did not deter IDRC (Canada) from funding an ambitious and ground-breaking project designed ultimately to influence ICT policy in Cambodia but initially to establish two pilot community-owned networks in poor rural areas. Each comprises both a cluster […]
2011 • Cambodia • IDRC • network • policy • ruralIntellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions
The objective of this booklet is to offer general and basic information on the interface between intellectual property (IP) and traditional knowledge (TK), traditional cultural expressions (TCEs), and genetic resources (GRs). It briefly addresses the most important questions that arise when considering the role that IP principles and systems can […]
2012 • culture | preservation • indigenous / traditional knowledge • intellectual property • misappropriation • protection • traditional cultureIntellectual Property Needs and Expectations of Traditional Knowledge Holders
This Report presents information compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from nine fact-finding missions conducted by WIPO in 1998 and 1999 on the intellectual property (IP) needs and expectations of holders of traditional knowledge (TK). The fact-finding missions (the FFMs) were designed to enable WIPO to identify, as […]
2001 • indigenous / traditional knowledge • intellectual property • protection • traditional culture • WIPO