Hello Africa from UZI FILM on Vimeo. Documentary about mobile phone culture in Africa. All material is published under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA). More info at www.uzi.se and www.ict4d.at/helloafrica. Hello Africa is the title of a documentary that illustrates cellphone culture in Africa. It shows images of contemporary Africa […]
2010 • Africa • impact of | ICTs • mobileIndigenous Tech and Media News Roundup: June
Every month Ethnos Project team member Rachael Petersen publishes a roundup of indigenous technology and media articles in the news at her blog Global Native Networks. Below are the June highlights NORTH/SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICA The BBC profiles virtual activism for the indigenous tribes of Brazil, particularly powerful in light of injustices such as the […]
community media • impact of | ICTs • indigenous communities • indigenous technologyInformation Technologies & International Development journal special issue: Selected Papers from ICTD2012
Information Technologies & International Development is an interdisciplinary open-access journal that focuses on the intersection of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with the “other four billion” – the share of the world population whose countries are not yet widely connected to the Internet nor widely considered in the design of […]
ICT4D • ICTs • impact of | ICTs • India • mobile • ruralFracturing the Skeleton of Principle: Australian Law, Aboriginal Law, and Digital Technology
Aboriginal people in Australia today are constructing extremely diverse cultures. Increasingly, these cultures involve some aspect of digital technologies – videos, DVDs, CDs, digital photos, audiofiles etc. This paper is part of a wider project looking at how emerging Aboriginal digital environments are affecting the intergenerational transmission of traditional culture. […]
2004 • aboriginal • digital environments • impact of | ICTs • traditional culture • transmissionIndigeneity and Technology: Podcast Interview with Dr. Michael Marker on Radio EPLT
A “Down the Hall” podcast from Jun 8th, 2012, hosted by Dave Roy [source] “What effect has the increasing use of technology had on Indigenous education and the passing on of knowledge from one generation to the next? Technological advances in education can often cut both ways, especially when we […]
2012 • education • impact of | ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledgeAppropriating Technology for social justice and human development (Tony Roberts’ blog)
Appropriating Technology is the blog of Tony Roberts (aka @phat_controller) Tony’s bio from his site: “After 25 years as a practitioner I have recently returned to school to study how ICT4D should be done, ‘in theory’. I am a second-year PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London at the […]
appropriate technology • ICT4D • ICT4D Collective at Royal Holloway • impact of | ICTsCan the digital age save the Cherokee language?
Phil Cash Cash, who runs the Indigenous Language and Technology listserv at the University of Arizona, sent this out today… Can the digital age save the Cherokee language? The halls of Facebook, Google and texting Written by Becky Johnson, published on Wednesday, 30 January 2013 [source] Excerpt: “Susan Gathers was […]
2013 • Cherokee • endangered language • impact of | ICTs • indigenous language • language | preservation • revitalization • youthTechnology, ephemera & ICT4D: an interview with Mark Oppenneer of the Ethnos Project
Wouldn’t you know it! Soon after Rachael Petersen joined up with the Ethnos Project, she turned the proverbial microphone on me and conducted a proper interview. I thought I’d post a link from here to the interview posted on Rachael’s site www.globalnativenetworks.com. Cheers, Mark Oppenneer Read the Interview From Rachel’s […]
cultural heritage • ephemera • ICT4D • impact of | ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • researchOur Side of the Divide: African Perspectives on Information and Communication Technologies
Introduction This booklet is part of a broad strategy called ‘Speaking for Ourselves’. It recognises, that while the African perspective on the digital divide is underrepresented in the context of the World Summit on the Information Society, the people most directly affected by the digital divide have the best ideas, […]
2003 • Africa • development • digital divide • impact of | ICTs • information society • WSISAboriginal 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 | preservationICTs 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 IslanderICTs and New Indigenous Mobilities? Insights from Remote Northern Territory Communities
Published in the Journal of Rural and Community Development, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2012) Abstract Like most of the jurisdictions highlighted in this edition, the Northern Territory of Australia has a large Indigenous population who live in small communities isolated from major service centres and urban areas. A digital divide […]
2012 • Australia • digital divide • ICTs • impact of | ICTs • indigenous communities • mobile • ruralOther side of the divide: Latin-American and Caribbean Perspectives on the WSIS
Introduction The process generated around the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is an opportunity to present to the world the contributions that from Latin America and the Caribbean have been made in this respect. Diverse actors of this region of the planet have worked and work today in […]
2003 • Caribbean • development • digital divide • impact of | ICTs • information society • knowledge tradition • Latin America • poverty reduction • WSISAcción comunitaria en la red (Community Action in the Net)
Español: La rápida adopción de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, en todos los entornos sociales, ha comportado que las interacciones entre grupos dejen de circunscribirse en un espacio y tiempo determinados para tener lugar en cualquier parte y a cualquier hora. Presenta, pues, este libro una selección […]
2012 • community informatics • ICT4D • impact of | ICTs • Internet useNew book: Acción comunitaria en la red (Community Action in the Net)
“Acción comunitaria en la red” is a new book co-authored by Francesc Balagué and Ismael Peña-López (an ICT4D researcher and lecturer whose work I have enjoyed following over the last few years – more below). About the book Español: La rápida adopción de las tecnologías de la información y la […]
2012 • community informatics • ICT4D • impact of | ICTs • Internet useAccelerating Development Using the Web: Empowering Poor & Marginalized Populations
The World Wide Web Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Accelerating Development Using the Web: Empowering Poor and Marginalized Populations. Generously supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the book is a compendium of articles by recognized experts describing the real and potential effects of the World Wide Web in […]
2012 • challenges • development • ICT4D • impact of | ICTs • innovation • Internet useThe Asháninka and the Internet
The other day, I found an IDRC report about the Asháninka and their use of the Internet dating back to 2000. Coincidentally, the Atlantic just ran a post about the Asháninka based on some photos and text released by Survival International. I have cobbled various bits together below with the […]
2000 • 2011 • appropriate technology • Asháninka • Brazil • development • IDRC • impact of | ICTs • Internet use • Peru • South AmericaIndigenous education: Creating classrooms of tomorrow today
At the recent 2011 Research Conference “Indigenous Education: Pathways to success” hosted by the Australian Council for Educational Research, Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney (Dean of Aboriginal Education, Director of the Wilto Yerlo Centre at Adelaide University) presented a talk on “Indigenous education: Creating classrooms of tomorrow today.” Here are some salient […]
2011 • aboriginal • education • impact of | ICTs • indigenous communitiesA question about the effects of ICTs on minority languages and culture
I missed this interview with Ritse Erumi (posted by Watan Vota on ICTWorks web site in February 2011). I invite you to read the whole interview here. Below is an excerpt in which Ms. Erumi responds to this question… In previous conversations, we’ve talked about your interest in the impact […]
culture | preservation • ICT4D • impact of | ICTs • language | preservation • minority language • Nigeria