Abstract: Recently the commons has become a predominant metaphor for the types of social relationships between people, ideas, and new digital technologies. In IP debates, the commons signifies openness, the exclusion of intermediaries, and remix culture that is creative, innovative, and politically disobedient. This article examines the material and social […]
2005 • commons • cultural protocols • culture | preservation • DVD • intellectual property • kinship • open access • remix • WarumunguEncyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with ICT
The Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology is an important and timely reference source on all topics related to the emerging field of information and communication technology (ICT) and its role in developing regional communities. This single-volume provides a thorough examination of concepts, technologies, policies, training, […]
2005 • development • ICT4D • ICTsArchiving Web Resources International Conference: Issues for Cultural Heritage Organisations
In November 2004, the National Library of Australia hosted the Archiving Web Resources International Conference. Over 200 delegates from 21 countries, representing libraries, archives, museums, galleries, and government agencies, gathered to hear papers and to discuss the issues for cultural heritage organisations. Despite the daunting scale of the task ahead, […]
2005 • archive • collaboration • conference • cultural heritageGender and ICTs for Development: a global sourcebook
Introduction: Gender and ICTs for development: setting the context Helen Hambly Odame The effect of ICT on women’s enterprise creation: a practical example from China Li Guihuan E-business piloting and readiness for rural women weavers in Bhutan: lessons learned Minori Terada Fishers and radios: a case study of Radio Ada in Ghana […]
2005 • Bhutan • Caribbean • China • gender • Ghana • ICT4D • ICTs • Sierra Leone • womenIndigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property Rights: an Enabling Tool for Development with Identity
This paper deals with a subset of indigenous knowledge systems called ethnobotanical knowledge. It reports some creative ways in which documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge can be carried out without losing community ownership over intellectual property rights. It also presents the general findings of the documentation, current and future uses of […]
2005 • documenting • ethnobotany • identity • indigenous / traditional knowledge • intellectual propertyKnowledge Traditions of Aboriginal Australians: Questions & Answers arising in a Databasing Project
In answering some questions about the place and role of databasing in Aboriginal Australian Knowledge Traditions, the paper gives some interesting insights into the nature and workings of Aboriginal Knowledge Traditions. I consider knowledge traditions of Aboriginal Australians comparatively, by referring to a particular contemporary way of ‘doing knowledge’. The […]
2005 • aboriginal • Australia • database • knowledge traditionComputer Databases and Aboriginal Knowledge
At a recent workshop on Aboriginal knowledge in Darwin, several women from the local Larrakia community talked about putting their elders’ knowledge onto a database. One cautious non-indigenous researcher voiced some doubts about the overenthusiastic embrace of digital technology: “Indigenous knowledge lives in country, and in doing things together in […]
2005 • aboriginal • culture | preservation • database • digital tools • elder • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Larrakia • transmissionAboriginal Knowledge on the Internet
Aboriginal people have traditional ways of understanding knowledge: what it is like, where it comes from, how people make it, how it is remembered, celebrated, and made new, how knowledge belongs to people, and how secret and sacred knowledges relate to public knowledge. At the same time, Aboriginal people in […]
2005 • aboriginal • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Internet use • knowledgeAboriginal Knowledge Traditions in Digital Environments
According to Manovich, the database and the narrative are natural enemies, each competing for the same territory of human culture. Aboriginal knowledge traditions depend upon narrative through storytelling and other shared performances. The database objectifies and commodifies distillations of such performances and absorbs them into data structures according to a […]
2005 • aboriginal • database • digital collections • knowledge management • knowledge tradition • performance • storytellingDigital Tools and the Management of Australian Desert Aboriginal Knowledge
This is a story of my work as a member of a small group set up within the CRC to develop a scoping study of Indigenous knowledge, its role in research and its protection under law. The group has mixed Aboriginal and nonAboriginal constitution, and is still ongoing, now trying […]
2005 • aboriginal • Australia • digital tools • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge managementAboriginal Culture in the Digital Age
Introduction The object of this paper is to bring a holistic perspective to the implications of ICT for Aboriginal ways of living, thinking and knowing. Is ICT the potent enabler for the promotion, renewal and enrichment of Aboriginal cultures as many claim? For example does ICT offer new possibilities for […]
2005 • aboriginal • Australia • impact of | ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • language | preservationDigital Identity: The Construction of Virtual Selfhood in the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement
Abstract Inventions have their greatest impact when they go beyond their possible practical applications and act upon the imagination. When Martin Behaim invented the first globe in 1490, a functionally useless object consisting mostly of terra incognita, he was widely ridiculed; but somehow the ideas that his globe represented stuck, […]
2005 • ICTs • identity • indigenous communities • representationICTs and Indigenous pedagogy: Techniques of resistance in chat rooms
Abstract This paper draws upon the ideas and scholarship encapsulated by a core unit at QUT in Indigenous Education. This unit was developed and written by Indigenous staff in the university’s Oodgeroo Unit and taken up for delivery for the first time in 2003. Staff in Teaching and Learning Support […]
2005 • aboriginal • community resistance • education • impact of | ICTs • Torres Strait IslanderAccess and Control of Indigenous Knowledge in Libraries and Archives: Ownership & Future Use
Abstract Last year, a friend of mine from a remote community in Arnhem Land, in northern Australia, came down to Canberra to look through various collections that pertained to his community and his clan, the Gupapyngu people. (The trip takes a day and a half by plane.) This material had […]
2005 • aboriginal • AIATSIS • Arnhem Land • Australia • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • library database • Torres Strait IslanderDigital Cultural Communication: Enabling new media and cocreation in SouthEast Asia
Abstract Digital Cultural Communication (DCC) is a new field of research and design which seeks to build a cocreative relationship between the cultural institution and the community by using new media to produce audiencefocused cultural interactive experiences (Russo and Watkins 2005). By situating the development of cultural communities within DCC, […]
2005 • Asia • collaboration • culture • curation • digital collections • information literacy • new mediaInvisibility and the Ethics of Digitalisation: Designing So As Not To Hurt Others
Abstract The diversity of knowledge is crucial for finding credible and sustainable alternatives for living together. Yet, a preoccupation with content and connectivity obscures the role of information technology in making invisible different ways of knowing and other logics and experiences. How to deal with diversity and difference in information […]
2005 • design • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • open source • sustainability • TAMIIndigenous Knowledge & Resource Management in Northern Australia (IKRMNA)
Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia (IKRMNA) was a three year 2003-2006 ARC Linkage Project to support and develop Indigenous databases that maintain and enhance the strength of local languages, cultures and environments in Northern Australia. The project was coordinated through the School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems […]
2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • aboriginal • archive • Australia • database • design • IKRMNA • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • representation • TAMI • YolnguIKRMNA: Making Collective Memories with Computers
This post contains abstracts and links to a selection of papers written about Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia (IKRMNA). From their website: IKRMNA was a three year 2003-2006 ARC Linkage Project to support and develop Indigenous databases that maintain and enhance the strength of local languages, cultures […]
2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • aboriginal • archive • Australia • database • design • IKRMNA • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systems • representation • TAMI • YolnguUsing ICT to place Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the heart of Education for Sustainable Development
Abstract Existing ICT implementation are largely top-down in their information flow: from experts to target groups. Merely incorporating indigenous knowledge within this structure places it at a considerable disadvantage. A wealth of knowledge is already available within the developing world, particularly with regard to health and agriculture, two spheres of […]
2005 • development • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge systemsIndigenous People on the Web
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 • revitalizationExpanding the Knowledge Base: Managing Extended Knowledge at the National Museum of the American Indian
Abstract A Native American basketmaker was hired to teach a college class in Indian crafts. Each day she began and ended her class by having her students sing songs she had taught them, until some of the students began to complain that they would never learn basket making at that […]
2005 • knowledge • museum • Native American • representation