Colombian GIS Expert Carlos Julio Neisa is always looking for innovative ways to use maps and geographic data. To him, GPS coordinates can open up a world of possibilities that allow ACDI/VOCA’s Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Program (ACIP) team to design better programs. Ethnic minority populations are among the most marginalized […]
2014 • ACIP • Afro-Colombian • capacity building • Colombia • community mapping • GIS • GPS • ICTworksIndigenous 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 • mappingCultural Differences, Technological Imperialism and Indigenous GIS
Summary Do all people, from all cultures and all languages, think about geographic space and geographic processes in more or less the same way? Or are there significant cross-cultural variations in how different peoples conceptualize and reason about geographic processes, features and places? Dr. David Mark of the State University […]
2006 • cross-cultural • geographic • geospatial • GIS • YindjibarndiAboriginal Mapping Network
The Aboriginal Mapping Network (AMN) was established in 1998 as a joint initiative of the Gitxsan and Ahousaht First Nations and Ecotrust Canada. Over the years the network has grown from its humble beginnings as a knowledge sharing forum for local First Nations technicians, leaders and decision makers to become […]
aboriginal • Ahousaht • First Nations • GIS • Gitxsan • indigenous / traditional knowledge • mapping • networkGeoweb: Indigenous Mapping of Intergenerational Knowledge
Abstract This thesis examines the transmission of intergenerational cultural knowledge on eastern James Bay Cree lands. Geospatial technologies and the representation of Cree knowledge are explored, with emphasis on the geoweb. A geoweb with two parts, old and new, is theorized as compatible with Cree interests at a landscape level […]
2010 • Cree • culture | preservation • GIS • James Bay | Canada • knowledge tradition • mapping • traditional cultureThe use of ICT for the preservation of Aboriginal culture: the Badimaya people of Western Australia
Abstract Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been applied successfully to numerous remote Indigenous communities around the world. The greatest gains have been made when requirements have been first defined by Indigenous members of the community then pattern matched to an ICT solution. Keywords: Information and Communication Technology, Indigenous Communities, […]
2006 • aboriginal • Australia • GIS • ICTs • indigenous communities • knowledge management