Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) may not be palpable, yet it is broad reaching while spanning cultures and has been handed down throughout the history of humankind. It is also the living heritage that represents diverse cultural expressions and has been the mainspring of community identity and community spirit throughout humanity. […]
2009 • Asia • Asia-Pacific • conference • cultural heritage • ICHCAP • intangible • Korea • safeguard • UNESCOApply now! Coding for Language Communities 2014
This post is adapted from Global Native Networks. It’s no secret that a handful of languages dominate the online space. A paper published last October in the journal PLOSOne (aptly titled “Digital Language Death”) found that less than five percent of the current world languages are in use online. Offline, around 7,776 […]
coding • conference • digital • language • linguisticsIndigenous New Media Symposium 2014
The Indigenous New Media Symposium aims to bring together Native American and First Nation media makers and creative activists to discuss how new media platforms are being used in the indigenous community to educate, organize, entertain, and advocate. In the past few years blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other tools […]
conference • digital media • indigenous media • Native American • social mediaArchiving 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 heritageCATaC conferences: cultural attitudes towards technology and communication
The biennial conference series on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication provides one of the most significant international forums for research on how diverse culture attitudes and communication preferences shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies. The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who […]
conference • culture • ICT4D • ICTs • researchSummit Addresses Indigenous Digital Divide in Australia
This post, written by Ethnos Curator Rachael Petersen, originally appeared on the Rising Voices website. Online heritage databases, an indigenous app to connect peoples worldwide, a network of recycled digital devices, and an Aboriginal digital social enterprise are just some of the responses to the focus of a recent summit […]
aboriginal • Australia • conference • design • ICT4D • indigenous • Torres Strait IslanderICT4D@MIT 2008
Workshop: Digital Media for Speakers of Endangered Languages in Latin America
Originally posted on rising.globalvoicesonline.org by Eddie Avila on 30 November 2012 Rising Voices Note: Rising Voices is pleased to be collaborating with this upcoming event in early 2013. This is a translation of the original website in Spanish at the Living Tongues blog. Enduring Voices: Digital Media Workshop for Speakers of Endangered Languages in […]
2013 • community media • conference • endangered language • indigenous language • Latin America • Living Tongues Institute • National Geographic Society • new media • Rising VoicesInformation Technology and Indigenous Communities: symposium presentations
Donwload the symposium program (PDF) This 2010 AIATSIS Research Symposium was co-hosted with the Australian National University and the National Film and Sound Archive and in conjunction with the National Recording Project’s 9th Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance. About the Symposium Information Technology and Indigenous Communities (ITIC) explored the […]
2010 • AIATSIS • archive • challenges • conference • cultural heritage • intangible • researchThe Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation
An international conference 26-28 September 2012, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada From the UNESCO website: UNESCO proposes to organize an international conference from 26 to 28 September 2012 in Vancouver (BC) Canada, to explore the main issues affecting the preservation of digital documentary heritage, in order to develop strategies that will […]
2012 • conference • cultural heritage • culture | preservation • development • digital humanities • knowledge • UNESCORe-framing HCI through local and indigenous perspectives
This post provides information about “Re-framing HCI through local and indigenous perspectives,” one of several workshops that will be held at this year’s Interact2011 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Lisbon, Portugal. Interact2011 Workshop on Indigenous HCI Monday, 5 September 2011 Workshop organizers Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, University of West London Masaaki Kurosu, […]
2011 • conference • design • human computer interaction • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Malaysia • SarawakDesign, 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 • ICT4D